Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer (Network Specialist)

Join SADA as a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Network Specialization!

Your Mission

As a Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer at SADA Specializing in Networking, you will work collaboratively to deliver high quality infrastructure projects on Google Cloud Platform, with an emphasis on solutions involving Networking technologies, for our Cloud and hybrid-Cloud customers. You will have an opportunity to work on real-world problems facing our customers in the field. Engagements vary from being purely consultative to requiring heavy hands-on work, and cover a range of domain areas, such as workload migrations from on-premises or other Clouds to GCP, standing up experimental infrastructures on GCP, building hybrid-cloud solutions on top of Kubernetes and Anthos, implementing Infrastructure-as-code environment automation, and developing fully automated CI/CD pipelines. Moreover, you will have the opportunity to provide thought leadership, delivering best practice recommendations internally and externally.

Our Networking Specialists promote Google's Network and managed services, accelerating Google Cloud adoption. In this role, you will be mapping existing architectures to Google Cloud. The ideal candidate will have knowledge of routing and switching, application networking, and network security.

You possess a diverse background in areas such as architecture design, distributed systems, infrastructure migration, and deployment strategies. To be successful, you must know how to navigate ambiguity, have extensive experience working with Cloud technologies, have technical depth, and enjoy working with customers.

You will be expected to run point on whole projects, end-to-end, and to mentor less experienced Cloud Infrastructure Engineers. You will be recognized as an expert within the team and will build a reputation with Google and our customers. You will demonstrate repeated delivery of project architectures and will communicate critical component details to clients as a Subject Matter Expert. You will also participate in early-stage opportunity qualification calls, as well as lead client-facing technical discussions for established projects.

Pathway to Success

#MakeThemRave is at the foundation of every project our engineering teams take on. Our singular goal is to provide customers with the best possible experience in migrating, building, modernizing, and operationalizing their systems in Google Cloud Platform.

Your success starts by positively impacting the direction of a dynamic practice with vision and passion. You will be measured quarterly by the breadth, magnitude and quality of your contributions, your ability to estimate accurately, customer feedback at the close of projects, how well you collaborate with your peers, and the consultative polish you bring to customer interactions.

As you continue to execute successfully, we will build a customized development plan together that leads you through the engineering or management growth tracks.

Expectations

Required Travel - Approximately 4 weeks of travel annually to customer sites, conferences, and other related events.

Customer Facing - You will interact with customers on a regular basis, sometimes daily, other times weekly/bi-weekly. Common touchpoints occur when qualifying potential opportunities, at project kickoff, throughout the engagement as progress is communicated, and at project close. You can expect to interact with a range of customer stakeholders, including engineers, technical project managers, and executives.

Onboarding/Training - The first several weeks of onboarding are dedicated to learning and will encompass learning materials/assignments and compliance training, as well as meetings with relevant individuals. Details of the timeline are shared closer to the start date.

Job Requirements

Required Credentials:

Google Cloud Architect Certified or able to complete within the first 45 days of employment.

Required Qualifications:

• Technical mastery of networking, VPNs, compute infrastructure (servers, databases, firewalls, load balancers, etc); architecting, developing, maintaining production-grade systems in virtualized environments
• Deep understanding of differences in networking aspects of Clouds and traditional enterprise and legacy architectures
• An understanding of differences and uses of OSI layers
• Clear knowledge of CIDR math
• Hands-on experience with LAN / WAN / SD-WAN
• Application Networking
• Various approaches for hybrid cloud networking
• Troubleshooting and scaling applications
• OS/Linux Networking
• Network Security
• Networking business challenges
• Experience implementing and/or supporting networks. Experience with network change-management control policies
• Experience with Software Defined Networking
• Expert knowledge of fundamental networking technologies and protocols (ARP, Ethernet, DHCP, IPSec, GRE, 802.11 standards, routing protocols, DNS, RADIUS, 802.1x)
• Excellent Linux and networking troubleshooting skills

Useful qualifications and areas of knowledge:

• Experience with specific networking appliances, including:
• Palo Alto
• Cisco
• Juniper
• Google VPC fundamentals, features, and architectures
• Cloud Interconnect (Hybrid Cloud Networking)
• Cloud DNS
• Cloud Load Balancing
• Cloud CDN
• Knowledge and understanding of industry trends and new technologies plus the ability to apply these to architectural needs
• Proven experience and understanding of architecture principles across infrastructure platforms, security, data, integration, and OSI layers
• Experience working with containerization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, etc)
• Experience being an administrator on a variety of Linux distributions
• Experience with information security practices and procedures
• Strong working knowledge of VMware, KVM, Xen, Hyper-V, or other virtualization software

About SADA

Values: We built our core values on themes that internally compel us to deliver our best to our partners, our customers and to each other. Ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we learn from each other is core to SADA's values. We welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities, and perspectives. We are an equal opportunity employer.

• Make Them Rave

• Be Data Driven

• Think One Step Ahead

• Drive Purposeful Impact

• Do The Right Thing

Work with the best: SADA has been the largest partner in North America for Google Cloud portfolio of products since 2016 and has been named the 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Google Cloud Global Reseller Partner of the Year. SADA has also been awarded Best Place to Work year after year by the Business Intelligence Group, Inc. Magazine, as well as LA Business Journal!

Benefits: Unlimited PTO, Paid Parental Leave, competitive and attractive compensation, performance-based bonuses, paid holidays, rich medical, dental, vision plans, life, short and long-term disability insurance, 401K/RRSP with match, as well as Google Certified training programs.

Business Performance: SADA has been named to the INC 5000 Fastest-Growing Private Companies list for 15 years in a row garnering Honoree status. CRN has also named SADA on the Top 500 Global Solutions Providers for the past 5 years. The overall culture continues to evolve with engineering at its core: 3200+ projects completed, 4000+ customers served, 10K+ workloads and 30M+ users migrated to the cloud.