Principal Engineer - Networking

• You will be a key technical leader responsible for designing, implementing, and managing network infrastructure, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• You will provide expert guidance and mentorship to the networking teams, ensuring adherence to best practices and driving the design and architecture of complex systems.
• Your role will involve collaborating with product managers and crossfunctional teams to define project goals, requirements, and timelines.
• You will nurture the professional growth of team members and foster a culture of continuous learning.
• You'll be instrumental in problem-solving, making critical technical decisions, and proposing innovative solutions to challenging technical issues.
• You'll play a crucial role in network automation, applying and evangelizing best practices, and evaluating emerging technologies to improve network availability, traffic, performance, and security.

• Extensive Networking Experience: In depth knowledge of base networking technologies including, TCP/IP, subnetting, gateways, DNS, how networking components work in the OSI model (L4 versus L7), routing, switching, network protocols and trunking.
• Strong Technical Background: Strong knowledge of routing and switching protocols, like BGP, spanning tree, and VLANs.
• Leadership Abilities: Proven leadership skills with the ability to guide and inspire multiple teams, fostering a positive and productive work environment.
• Project Management: Experience in managing networking projects, including planning, resource allocation, and project delivery.
• Problem-Solving Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities to address complex technical challenges effectively.
• Communication Skills: Excellent verbal and written communication skills to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Mentoring and Coaching: Ability to mentor and coach junior engineers, helping them grow their skills and contribute effectively to the team.

• Continuous Learning: Willingness to stay updated with the latest technologies and industry trends, continuously improving technical expertise.
• Decision-Making: Demonstrated ability to make critical technical decisions and trade-offs while considering project constraints and business objectives.
• Collaboration: Strong teamwork and collaboration skills to work effectively with crossfunctional teams.
• Quality Focus: A commitment to delivering high-quality products through reviews, testing, and adherence to best practices.
• Innovation: A passion for innovation, driving the adoption of new technologies and methodologies to improve development/deployment processes and product offerings.
• Vendor Relationships: Ability to work with vendors to build relationships that is beneficial to both the Bank and the vendor.

• Network equipment: Experience configuring and managing network equipment, preferably using CLI tools.
• Data Center Technology: Strong knowledge of networking data center technology including spine-leaf architecture and Data Center interconnects.
• On-prem and Cloud Networking: Deep understanding of Cloud networking technologies including VPC's, virtual networking, and security groups as well as how on-prem connects to Cloud Service Providers, including, direct connect, VPNs, and proxy servers.
• Load Balancers: Strong understanding of on-prem and Cloud load balancers and how they are implemented for different workloads.
• Automation: Ability to lead the automation of networking, including provisioning, repetitive tasks, common toil, and configuration management.
• Network Performance: Strong understanding of how to optimize performance, finetuning network components to provide a robust and reliable experience for stakeholders.
• Network Security: Experience in dealing with network security including firewalls, IDP/IDS, encryption, and VPNs.
• Traffic Management: Ability to understand traffic trends to forecast future network growth.
• Traffic Analysis: Experience in network traffic analysis including performance, application traffic, security, and QoS.

• Documentation: Ability to create documentation that is accurate and up to date, including network diagrams, configurations, and procedures.
• Monitoring: Experience in creating dashboards and reports on network performance, security, traffic patterns, and incidents.
• APIs: Familiarity in designing and implementing robust and maintainable APIs.
• Compliance: Strong knowledge of network compliance including any regulatory requirements for security and data privacy.

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