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Senior Software Engineer - Network Production Engineer - London
£55,000 - 95,000
Bloomberg
Queen Victoria Street 3, London
£55,000 - 95,000
Requirements
Must:
As a candidate for the Senior Software Engineer - Network Production Engineer position, we expect you to have:
- Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer.
- Experience in building, maintaining, and continuously enhancing automations for scalability and efficiency in running Network Infrastructure.
- Familiarity with infrastructure automation and orchestration frameworks, such as Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, or Salt.
- Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably Python.
- A bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will be a critical member of our team responsible for the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure, which supports Bloomberg's core products and services. Your responsibilities will include:
- Developing and maintaining software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor network with a focus on automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code.
- Automating the full network lifecycle, including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.
- Collaborating with architecture and design teams, as well as the CTO office, to implement new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.
- Developing tools and platforms to enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.
- Enhancing existing monitoring and observability frameworks by integrating intelligent alerting and self-remediation capabilities to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response.
- Defining and measuring service-level objectives (SLOs) to track infrastructure performance and reliability.
- Writing software utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.
- Providing mentorship to junior engineers and promoting software engineering best practices throughout the team.
- Practicing and advocating for the use of a modern software development lifecycle.
Description
We would love to see candidates who have: - Experience managing and automating network devices at scale, such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, and Whitebox. - An understanding of various network architectures across the Internet, Public Cloud, Private Networks, DWDM, Optical Networking, and Data Centre design fundamentals. - Experience with network modeling. - A desire to learn new technologies and mentor others. - Familiarity with telemetry tools like Splunk, Grafana, or Humio. - Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools. - Experience in implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IGMP, and PIM related internal and external network routing issues in a production environment. - Knowledge of messaging queues such as Kafka or RabbitMQ. Discover what makes us unique and gain insight into our culture, values, and the people behind our success.
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