Lead Network Engineer – Backbone Engineering
Salesforce
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: McLean • California, Virginia • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $184,000 - $253,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
Tech Stack
AnsibleLinuxPythonUnix
About the role
- Act as a liaison with the vendor sourcing team
- Helping to develop and maintain metrics on our capacity vendors
- Project managing new capacity installs with various teams including sourcing and field engineering
- Updating the network and associated datastores for capacity additions and decommissions
- Work with various teams to provide feedback, document, and implement various new network designs
- Developing in Python, Ansible for network configuration automation
- Work with our connectivity partners and customer engagement teams for any customer troubleshooting issues
- Help with BGP peering relationship management and peering network design
- Backbone router migrations/grooms/decoms
- Network design life cycles including documentation and collaborative approvals
- Maintaining Network Data SoTs
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years in production network environments, or comparable experience
- Proven project management skills
- Experience working with telecommunications vendors
- Experience with Cisco and Juniper carrier-class routers (ex: ASR9K, CRS, MX960, PTX, MX2K)
- Experience with Cisco Nexus-based switches
- Knowledge of routing protocols such as BGP and IS-IS
- Fundamental understanding of WDM technologies
- Strong Python coding skills
- Good understanding of Unix/Linux-based operating systems
- Experience developing and maintaining network automation tools (e.g. Ansible)
- Experience with Git, or other version control systems
- The ability to self-manage multiple projects at one time
- A good understanding of the current state of AI, machine learning, LLMs, MCP, etc.
- A related technical degree required.
Benefits
- time off programs
- medical
- dental
- vision
- mental health support
- paid parental leave
- life and disability insurance
- 401(k)
- employee stock purchasing program
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
PythonAnsibleBGPIS-ISWDM technologiesCisco routersJuniper routersCisco Nexus switchesnetwork automation toolsUnix/Linux
Soft skills
project managementself-managementcollaborationcommunication
Certifications
related technical degree