Network Infrastructure Architect

DRW-NX is looking for a talented Network Infrastructure Architect to join our NSO team (Network Services and Operations). You will play a critical role in building, automating, and ensuring the reliability of some of the most cutting-edge low latency infrastructure in the world.

You will:

• Have the opportunity to work on the fastest network in the world.
• Experiment with the latest technologies and be a pioneer in the networking industry.
• Be part of a driven and dynamic global team focused on designing, improving, managing and monitoring a cutting-edge global network.

As a Network Infrastructure Architect for DRW, you will have two main mandates:

1. Supporting our global infrastructure with a focus on low latency including:

• • Providing operational support for our global wireless and wired high-performance network environments
  • Diagnose and solve network related issues and outages
  • Proactively identifying enhancements to existing configurations, technologies and procedures to improve performance
  • Operating and provisioning monitoring and telemetry systems where applicable
  • Contributing to the documentation of network processes, systems and configurations
  • Participate in network change and code reviews

1. Work on team and department projects such as:

• • Automate our network provisioning and operation
  • New network, colocation or path onboarding
  • New telecom link delivery
  • New monitoring solutions
  • New automation projects
  • Liaise with our internal project team and external service providers for maintenance support
  • Automate repetitive tasks and day to day network processes using scripting and automation

• At least Three to Five years of experience in network automation
• Able to write code and implementation automation using existing framework such as ansible
• Will to learn wireless technologies and low latency networking
• Knowledge of switching, routing, WAN, LAN, and datacenter network architectures
• Good understanding of Linux (Boot sequence, services, processes, network and kernel)
• Ability to deploy and operate a monitoring framework such as Cacti, Zabbix, Nagios, Prometheus or Tick stack
• Excellent analytical, organizational and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to work under pressure in a fast-paced environment with competing priorities
• Ability to work independently and be part of a global team
• A high level of energy and a passion for creativity and innovation
• The flexibility to participate in the rotating weekend maintenance schedule
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills and documentation/knowledge management skills

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer science, Software Engineering or similar
• CCNP or JNCIP certification (R&S or similar)
• Experience working on automation (Python, Ansible/Puppet/Salt etc.)
• Experienced in Python, Go or similar coding language
• Experience with point-to-point wireless networks and knowledge of RF principles
• Experience working on low latency or trading networks
• Hands on experience working with containers or pods (docker or Kubernetes or similar)
• Hands on experience with cloud services (AWS)
• Firewall experience (Checkpoint, FortiGate, Palo Alto etc.)