As part of delivering and driving our organizations Product Strategy we are seeking a skilled and motivated Lead Infrastructure Engineer who can help accountable for roadmap realization and performance as well as the overall health and value delivered by the product. In this role our candidate will partner with our customers and stakeholders to identify their needs and align them with the overall Product goals, aligned to the modern architecture standards set for the organization.

As a Core Networks Lead Infrastructure Engineer, you will identify, document, prioritize and communicate the work that our engineering feature teams needs to deliver based on business demands.

This role will include, but not be limited to, the following:

• Collaborate with customers and stakeholders to delivery infrastructure services for Core Networks
• Partner closely with Technology and Engineering leads to accelerate hiring and team development.
• Collaborate with other customers, product lines, network operations and Architecture and Engineering teams to align with overall strategy and avoid duplication of efforts. 
• Deliver business and technical Infrastructure requirements.
• Partner with agile lead to adopt and improve agile practices.
• Help to accelerate tech modernization efforts.
• Manage key relationships and communications with stakeholders and vendors including to senior executives.
• Participate and facilitate meetings as required.

Experience and requirements

• 12 Years of technical and network design experience within a large enterprise environment
• Strong knowledge in Data Center Products – Cisco ACI, Cisco NX-OS and Arista EOS.
• Experience in various routing technologies (BGP (Border Gateway Protocol), OSPF, IS-IS) 
• Experience with Cisco products (routing/switching--Nexus Series, Catalyst, etc.) or relevant experience in key competitor offerings (i.e., Arista) 
• Experience in SDN/overlay networks (Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure), VMware NSX, MP-BGP EVPN/VXLAN) 
• Working knowledge of Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) VPC and related experience (EC2, Transit Gateway, NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway etc.
• Proficient in multiple infrastructure technologies 
• Proficient in one programming language (ex. Python)
• Infrastructure as code exposure (Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation)
• Working knowledge of REST/JSON web service API (Application Programming Interface) implementation 
• Working knowledge of Amazon AWS (Amazon Web Services) VPC and related experience (EC2, Transit Gateway, NAT (Network Address Translation) Gateway, IGW, Flow Logs, Cloud WAF (Web Application Firewall), Cloud proxy) 
• Demonstrated ability to automate processes and tasks.
• Understanding or have experience with Agile and Lean philosophies, including experience with JIRA and Confluence 
• Experience managing high-performing teams and supporting a culture that attracts, retains and develops top talent.
• Respects, values and promotes diversity and inclusion.
• Structured thinker, effective communicator with excellent written communication skills
• Commitment and self-motivation suitable to a start-up team
• BS or MS Computer Science or comparable field of study
• Effective written and verbal communicator with excellent reasoning, organizational and presentation skills to both technical and product audiences, including senior executives.
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite and with JIRA