Job Location: Santa Clara, 2-3 days per week onsite
Duration: 6 months
Position Overview:
Senior Network Engineer supporting enterprise data center buildouts.
Responsibilities:
- Design, build and support large-scale data center networks for a WWT customer (200G+).
Qualifications:
- Technical knowledge of Arista is required; Mellanox is a major plus.
- Technical knowledge of Cumulus Networks is a major plus.
- Experience designing and architecting data center networking plans, including high-level and low-level design, implementation, and acceptance testing.
- Extensive virtual networking experience with Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN) and Ethernet VPN (EVPN).
- Experience with structured cabling for network connectivity.
- Expertise in network design, implementation, and best practices for high-performance computing (HPC) environments.
- Expert knowledge of Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), advanced UNIX services, and shell scripting.
- Deep understanding of HPC and cluster technologies using InfiniBand and RDMA over Converged Ethernet (RoCE).
- Understanding of rack elevation, data center, and pod design using spine-leaf fabrics.
- Strong background in physical cabling types, specifically InfiniBand HDR and EDR.
- Strong track record implementing network services in distributed computing environments.
- Expert knowledge of storage area network (SAN) and network-attached storage (NAS) services, including iSCSI, NFS, and CIFS.
- Understanding of workload schedulers such as Slurm.
- Experience with configuration management tools such as SaltStack, Chef, or Puppet.
Tools and Technologies:
Arista, Mellanox, Cumulus Networks, VXLAN, EVPN, Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS), UNIX, shell scripting, InfiniBand, RoCE, spine-leaf fabrics, InfiniBand HDR/EDR, SAN, NAS, iSCSI, NFS, CIFS, Slurm, SaltStack, Chef, Puppet.
