Senior Network Reliability Engineer

Forcepoint
Ireland
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 7+ yearsEducation: bachelorsSkills: ["Mentoring","Teamwork","Problem-solving","Communication","Analytical-thinking"]

Senior Network Reliability Engineer responsible for elevating network architecture, reliability, and performance within Forcepoint’s production network. The role emphasizes Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices, with focus areas including multi-provider BGP routing, observability, automation, incident response, and capacity planning, in a 24/7 on-call environment.

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Forcepoint
4 months ago

Senior Network Reliability Engineer

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Job Summary

Senior Network Reliability Engineer responsible for elevating network architecture, reliability, and performance within Forcepoint’s production network. The role emphasizes Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps practices, with focus areas including multi-provider BGP routing, observability, automation, incident response, and capacity planning, in a 24/7 on-call environment.
Location: Ireland
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering

Key Responsibilities

  • •Contribute to Network Architecture and Design
  • •Monitor, measure and improve the reliability, availability and scalability of network infrastructure, applications and services
  • •Identify manual routine operational practices and build robust automation capabilities using code and modern tools
  • •Engage in Incident response and participate in post-mortem analysis to investigate root cause and capture contributing factors for remediation
  • •Perform analytics on previous incidents and trend/usage patterns to better predict issues and take proactive actions

Key Requirements

  • •University degree and 7+ years of related experience, or equivalent work experience.
  • •Strong understanding of networking concepts (TCP/IP, UDP, routing protocols, VLAN configuration, DNS, OSI layers, load balancing) and BGP routing on the public internet.
  • •Strong understanding of network monitoring techniques including SNMP, Flow Monitoring, Telemetry, and Syslog.
  • •Understanding of network security best practices.
  • •Understanding of network firewalls, IPSEC/GRE tunnels, VPN services
  • •(Preferred) Network Automation using tooling like Ansible, Puppet, or Chef
  • •(Preferred) Software Engineering skills with at least one scripting language like Python
  • •(Preferred) Understanding of Junos and Juniper MX, QFX, and EX platform
  • •(Preferred) Understanding of Linux or Kubernetes systems
Experience:7+ yearsNetworkingSecurityIT operations
Education:Bachelor's
Skills:MentoringTeamworkProblem-solvingCommunicationAnalytical-thinking
Tech Stack:PythonAnsiblePuppetChefJunosLinuxKubernetesSNMPBGPTCP/IPUDPDNSVLANSyslogTelemetry

Company Brief

Forcepoint
Provides network security appliances and integrated cybersecurity solutions, including firewalls, secure access, endpoint security, and cloud security services to protect enterprises and service providers from advanced threats and enable secure digital transformation.
Industry: Cybersecurity
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Revenue: USD 1B+
Growth: Public Company
Valuation: Public Company (Market Cap in USD)
Funding: IPO / Publicly Listed
Headquarters: Sunnyvale, United States
Founded: 2000
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