Principal Cloud Network Engineer

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.

Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.

Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.


Citizenship Requirement:
**All candidates must be a U.S. Citizen, permanent resident or green card holder**
About the opportunity
The Principal Cloud Network Engineer plays a pivotal and hands-on role within the Cloud Network team, emphasizing expertise in implementation, administration, support and monitoring for network edge, load balancing, caching and security across our global enterprise cloud. The ideal candidate is comfortable at influencing strategy, highly collaborative, and possesses a profound background in network engineering, implementation, and automation at enterprise scale.
What you'll get to do
• Provide overall technical direction and strategic leadership for the delivery of highly available and scalable network infrastructure. This includes edge networking, caching, global backbone, data center networking, load balancing, and network security across both public and private clouds
• Support and troubleshoot availability, performance, product, and infrastructure issues in production environments
• Collaborate closely with cloud engineering, platform engineering, and product teams to ensure we are scaling ahead of business needs
• Implement automated configuration and deployment process improving network functionality, availability, and performance
• Develop infrastructure-as-code across both public and private clouds using industry best practices
• Analyze and improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of network infrastructure using rich telemetry data
Skills and experience we value
• 8-10 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, with a focus on network engineering and troubleshooting
• Expert level proficiency in multiple cloud disciplines, covering technical architecture, network management, application development, observability, core network infrastructure, caching, load balancing, network security, compute, and databases (SQL Server, MongoDB, Postgres and Oracle)
• Experienced with managing secure data lake pipelines and troubleshooting performance
• Fluency in Azure Cloud Networking with a strong understanding of protocols such as BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, SMTP, HTTP, and routing across globally distributed networks
• Strong background in cloud network cost analysis to determine problematic/costly traffic patterns
• Expert knowledge of load balancing technologies (e.g. F5, AVI)
• Expert knowledge of network edge security providers (e.g. Akamai, Cloudflare, Imperva)
• Demonstrable experience implementing and operating multi-regional networks incorporating Azure networking technologies including Azure Virtual WAN, Application Gateway, NAT Gateway, VNet Peering, Azure Firewall Premium, Azure NSG/ ASG, Traffic Manager, Front Door, etc., ideally at a global scale
• Expert knowledge in K8S networking – both ingress, egress and inter cluster secure networking
• Proficiency in one or more automation languages (e.g. PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ansible, Terraform)
• Extensive experience with cloud-based security architectures, tools, policy automation, governance, and application monitoring
• Experience with observability products including commercial APM tools, ELK stack, Azure monitor, Prometheus, and Grafana. Demonstrated ability to deploy and manage the lifecycle of cloud services
• Experience with networking/implementing event streaming architectures (e.g. Kafka, RedPanda)
• Strong program and project management experience, demonstrating the ability to identify, prioritize, and successfully execute competing priorities
• Ability to balance the needs for exceptionally high availability, performance, and scalability while reducing costs. This is a complex set of mandates that helps drive Ceridian’s business and product
• Strong written and verbal communication skills across both technical and non-technical audiences. Ability to lead discussions about complex solution design tradeoffs and drive conflict resolution
• Ability to thrive and adapt in a fast-paced, high-growth, and rapidly changing environment
• Certifications from AWS, Azure, or GCP are a bonus


What’s in it for you
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