
Senior Cloud Network Engineer
PayPal
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Scottsdale • Arizona • California • United 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