Network Reliability Engineer

Who is Forcepoint?

Forcepoint simplifies security for global businesses and governments. Forcepoint's all-in-one, truly cloud-native platform makes it easy to adopt Zero Trust and prevent the theft or loss of sensitive data and intellectual property no matter where people are working. 20+ years in business. 2.7k employees. 150 countries. 11k+ customers. 300+ patents. If our mission excites you, you're in the right place; we want you to bring your own energy to help us create a safer world. All we're missing is you!

Forcepoint is seeking a Network Reliability Engineer to join our Network Reliability Engineering team. The NRE role will focus on elevating architecture and design, network performance, and availability in support of our organization's fast-evolving production network infrastructure.

The NRE will engage with Forcepoint teams to promote a culture of Site Reliability Engineering and DevOps strategies for our Network Infrastructure. Key areas for this role will include BGP routing in a complex multi-provider infrastructure, network architecture and design, observability, operations, and capacity planning.

• US Remote

Job Description

• 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

• Design and build custom tools as needed to support process optimization, challenging the status-quo and improving operational efficiency

• Participate in 24*7 rotational shifts & On-Call for handling production operation issues

• Engage in service capacity planning and demand forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning

• Create meaningful dashboards/reports for application telemetry and infrastructure health for pro-actively identifying performance constraints and bottlenecks

Requirements

• University degree and 4-6 years of related experience, or equivalent work experience.

• Strong understanding of Networking concepts and theories, such as different protocols (TCP/IP, UDP, routing protocols, etc), VLAN configuration, DNS, OSI layers, and load balancing

• Strong understanding of network monitoring techniques including SNMP, Flow Monitoring, Telemetry, and Syslog

• Strong understanding of BGP routing on the public internet. Manipulating BGP attributes to alter routing. Leveraging Peering Exchanges and Internet Exchanges.

• Understanding of network security best practices

• Understanding of network firewalls, IPSEC/GRE tunnels, VPN services

• Ability and willingness to coach and mentor Team members and colleagues

• 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 [Preferred]

Don't meet every single qualification? Studies show people are hesitant to apply if they don't meet all requirements listed in a job posting. Forcepoint is focused on building an inclusive and diverse workplace - so if there is something slightly different about your previous experience, but it otherwise aligns and you're excited about this role, we encourage you to apply. You could be a great candidate for this or other roles on our team.

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