Description

Principal Network Engineer
Position Type: Full Time (onsite)
Location: Mckinney, TX
JOB SUMMARY
The Engineering team is responsible for providing a reliable, scalable, secure, performant, and cost-effective underlying infrastructure for all other departments to build upon. Principal Network Engineers, as members of the Cloud Engineering team, are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable, secure, performant, and cost-effective networking solutions across multiple data centers and public cloud environments.

Responsibilities:
●Data center evaluation, onboarding, and management
●ISP evaluation, onboarding, and management
●Networking design, configuration, and monitoring
●Hardware evaluation, qualification, onboarding, and management
●Capacity planning
●Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and centralized secrets storage to automate the provisioning and management of infrastructure, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments.
●Implement robust observability solutions to monitor system performance (logs, metrics, traces) using tools like Prometheus and Grafana. Configure alerting for proactive issue resolution.
●Oversee installation, configuration, patching, and updating of network equipment to ensure reliable, secure, performant, cost-effective operation.
●Optimize resource allocation to ensure efficient utilization of hardware capabilities. Competencies: Non-Technical
●Leads from behind, coaching and developing their peers
●Balances tactical and strategic needs to address both short and long-term organizational priorities based on articulated team and company goals
●Demonstrates intrinsic motivation
●Writes clear, concise, and meaningful documentation
●Develops and leverages collaborative, empathetic relationships across the organization
●Ability to make and explain thoughtful decisions based on sound logical, analytical, data-driven reasoning Technical
●Expert knowledge of Linux operating system internals and architecture, with a focus on networking stability and performance turning.
●In-depth understanding of networking layers, protocols, services, and security practices.
●Familiarity with configuring and troubleshooting network hardware and software, as well as analyzing packet captures.
●Expertise designing and managing network infrastructure across multiple data centers and public cloud environments.
●Expertise with virtualization technologies, with a focus on networking stability and performance turning.
●Experience in evaluating, qualifying, and managing networking hardware and capacity planning.
●Expertise with container management (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Helm)
●Expertise with configuration management (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
●Expertise with infrastructure as code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)
●Expertise with monitoring and alerting systems (Cloudwatch, Datadog, New Relic, Site24x7, Dynatrace)
●Experience with VCS systems and providers (Git, Mercurial, Github, Sourcehut)
●Experience with CI/CD systems (Github Actions, Circle CI, Argo)
●Experience with ticket management systems (Jira, Shortcut, Azure Devops) Attributes: You are an intrinsically motivated and empathetic technologist who loves all things networking. You combine a broad and deep understanding of modern data centers with extensive cloud-native experience. From circuit turnups to Istio, you can do it all.

Bonus points if you:
●Have a podcast feed full of Packet Pushers content
●Have used most of the tools on Brendan Gregg's Linux Performance page
●Love leading a blameless RCA discussion
●Cringe when someone uses 10x engineer unironically