PayPal

Senior Cloud Network Engineer

PayPal

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ScottsdaleArizonaCaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $123,500 - $183,700 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Oversee load balancers, Global Server Load Balancing (GSLB) equipment, Content Delivery Network (CDN) platforms, and troubleshoot client/server issues.
  • Handle proactive and reactive outages, work with vendors, and take ownership of network incidents, escalations, and root cause analysis.
  • Lead backbone network design and architecture for on-premises and public cloud migration, and build hybrid connectivity solutions.
  • Work with business unit leadership, product managers, and customers to develop project objectives, timelines, and feature requirements.
  • Support network system availability, manage network capacity, and ensure compliance with Information Security standards.
  • Deploy equipment, manage SSL certificate hosting and renewal, and build infrastructure for data centers and cloud environments.
  • Implement and continually improve operational procedures, systems, and network engineering best practices.
  • Offer on-call support, monitor infrastructure and hosted services, and troubleshoot complex issues.
  • Manage and influence global teams, provide guidance and support, and mentor team members in areas of expertise.
  • Communicate incident impacts, risks, and mitigation plans to executives, document incident information, and create network engineering documentation and best practices.

Requirements

  • 3+ years relevant experience and a Bachelor’s degree OR Any equivalent combination of education and experience.
  • Proficiency with leading public cloud providers network services - AWS and GCP is a must, and experience with Azure is desirable.
  • Deep hands-on experience with Terraform for network automation, infrastructure provisioning, CI/CD pipelines, and cloud resource lifecycle management.
  • Strong experience with open-source load balancers, especially HAProxy, including configuration, tuning, observability, and deployment automation.
  • Experience with Kubernetes networking, including Ingress, Service Mesh, CNI plugins.
  • Deep hands-on expertise in cloud networking: VPC Network, Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect Gateway, Interconnect, Cloud Router, VPN, and firewall rules (Security Groups, GCP Firewall).
  • PrivateLink and Private Service Connect (PSC) for secure and scalable service exposure.
  • Use Infrastructure as Code processes to automate and maintain infrastructure consistency, scalability, and up-to-date configurations.
  • Implement and manage network security controls using Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls, VPNs, etc in public Cloud environments.
  • Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, DNS, VPN.
  • Utilize network monitoring tools (e.g. LogicMonitor, Datadog, AWS Cloudwatch, Splunk, Catchpoint, Nagios, etc.) to proactively identify and resolve network issues.
  • Implement network changes following established change management procedures, minimizing risk and ensuring minimal impact to production services.
  • Participate in incident management processes, including troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and post-incident reviews.
  • Adhere to security policies, procedures, and best practices, ensuring the network infrastructure meets all compliance requirements.
  • Provide Tier 2 support for network incidents impacting our production systems, ensuring timely resolution and minimal disruption to service. This includes on-call rotation responsibilities.
  • Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills.
Benefits
  • Medical insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Disability insurance
  • Parental and family leave
  • 401(k) savings plan
  • Paid time off
  • Employee shares options
  • Flexible work environment

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
AWSGCPAzureTerraformHAProxyKubernetesVPC NetworkPalo AltoFortinetTCP/IP
Soft skills
troubleshootingproblem-solvingcommunicationleadershipmentoringcollaborationincident managementproject managementguidancesupport