NetOps Engineer

About the role

A global quantitative and systematic asset management firm founded in 1991 is looking to expand its NetOps team in Paris. The current team has two members: a NetOps engineer focused 90% on deploying automation tools and a Head of Run. The new NetOps Engineer will help relieve the Head of Run and share expertise, operating autonomously across the infrastructure from hardware to applications, with a focus on automation, reproducibility and scalability.

Key responsibilities

• Maintain the operational conditions of switches, routers, firewalls and appliances
• Automate deployments by configuring equipment and firewall rules
• Provide technical support to other IT teams
• Evolve the tools used for network operations

Required profile

• First experience managing intra- and inter-datacenter networks
• Strong sense of responsibility, autonomy and availability
• Team player with teaching skills
• Rigorous, available, with strong user communication skills and professional English

Required skills

• IP networks, BGP and EVPN VXLAN
• Python or knowledge of key programming concepts
• Nice to have: datacenter networking (BGP, EVPN VXLAN), Ansible, Zabbix, WiFi networks, Linux

The technical environment includes multiple datacenters across Europe, Asia and the Americas, more than 450 network and security devices, an internally managed WAN, a secure office network and thousands of servers and VMs.