Senior Network DevOps Engineer

LivePerson (NASDAQ: LPSN) is the global leader in enterprise conversations. Hundreds of the world’s leading brands — including HSBC, Chipotle, and Virgin Media — use our award-winning Conversational Cloud platform to connect with millions of consumers. We power nearly a billion conversational interactions every month, providing a uniquely rich data set and safety tools to unlock the power of Conversational AI for better customer experiences.  

At LivePerson, we foster an inclusive workplace culture that encourages meaningful connection, collaboration, and innovation. Everyone is invited to ask questions, actively seek new ways to achieve success, nd reach their full potential. We are continually looking for ways to improve our products and make things better. This means spotting opportunities, solving ambiguities, and seeking effective solutions to the problems our customers care about. 

Overview:

Our global NetDevOps team is growing rapidly, requiring engineers to collaborate across US, EMEA, and APAC regions to support our data center and cloud environments.  This team focuses on the stability and reliability of our global infrastructure leveraging existing standards, processes, and automation solutions.  The NetDevOps Engineer will serve as a domain expert in networking technologies and the supporting both datacenter and cloud infrastructure.

You will:

• Lead in projects, changes, and incident resolutions.
• Strong decision making skills in a high pressure, fast paced environment.
• Develop, maintain, and support data center and cloud technologies across our global infrastructure to include routing, switching, and cloud technologies.
• Implement changes, upgrades and performing preventative maintenance.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and vendor incidents to resolution and identify remediation improvements. 
• Develop and leverage automation and monitoring tools to maximize visibility and recovery.
• Communicate and collaborate across teams and levels to manage projects or incidents.
• Work in APAC hours

You have:

• Strong working knowledge in configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, and static). 
• Extensive experience with data center and cloud based networking technologies and infrastructure (LAN, WAN, firewall, SDWAN, BGP, DNS, load balancing, VPN, etc)
• Experience with Arista and Cisco configurations and maintenance.
• Deep understanding of network protocols and services. 
• Extensive experience in linux environments and enterprise distros
• Experience with software development and strong scripting skills.
• Experience with Palo Alto firewall configurations and maintenance.
• Experience with F5 LTM and AFM configurations and maintenance.
• Experience with networking and securing kubernetes with Calico.
• Experience with cloud technologies and IaC deployments. 
• Experience with GCP, AWS, Azure cloud environments.  (Certifications preferred)
• Experience with virtual and containerized deployments in both data center and cloud. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and GKE deployments and networking elements. (CNI, Itsio, Calico)
• Experience with CI/CD pipeline components, support, functionality, and tools.
• Experience with version control concepts and operations. (Git) 
• Experience with data formats XML, JSON, YAML and parsing with Python data structures.
• Experience working within an Agile development environment
• Experience with webhooks, API styles, HTTP Response codes, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience with Ansible deployments and creating ansible playbooks
• Experience with Jenkins and parameterization. 
• Use of automation tools and modules (Rundeck/Puppet/Terraform)
• Experience with Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor (NAPALM) framework
• Leverage model driven programmability within an Arista networking environment.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure such as Compute, Network, Storage and Backup
• Understand the need to organize code into methods, functions, classes, and modules
• Experience with monitoring performance metrics and KPIs.

Nice to haves:

• Collect feedback and requirements from design and technical staff
• Create diagrams, business cases, and architectural designs documents.
• Support on-call and weekend rotation as needed
• Collaborate with cross functional teams.
• Able to handle stressful situations with a level headed approach
• Excellent verbal and writing skills (English)         

Benefits: 

• Health: medical, dental, and vision