Senior Infrastructure Engineer II

Job description

• The Infrastructure Engineer is responsible for the technical direction of Network Platforms within a portfolio, providing consulting expertise, leveraging business and technical knowledge to support business strategies and deliver business value.
• Plays an integral role in building and enhancing the network infrastructure required to support the platform(s) or set of applications in terms of robustness, scalability, availability and efficiency.
• Works with Technical and Business Architects to ensure developments support the business and IT strategic plan.
• Performs as a high-level, Technical SME (subject matter expert) for the Global Network Infrastructure at American Express
• Has strong troubleshooting skills to resolve high-severity, business-impacting outages and incidents
• Has responsibility for the technical direction of the platform(s) / applications within the supported portfolio
• Works with architecture consultants to ensure Infrastructure build aligns to business and IT strategy
• Partners with the American Express Technology architecture teams in determining a practical adaptation of enterprise standards through informal feedback sessions
• Coaches and mentors less experienced colleagues as required
• Participates in relevant network communities
• Works with the Directors of Business and Technical Architecture to identify technical solutions and business process improvements in support of the business and IT strategic direction
• Manages (monitors and addresses) third party work in terms of quality and adherence to standards
• Ensures accurate asset information is recorded / documented for the platform / application supported
• Expert level knowledge in networking protocols like TCP / IP, OSPF, and BGP is required
• Expert level knowledge in switching technologies like Spanning tree, Port Channels, VPCs, Ethernet is required
• Expert level knowledge in packet capture analysis
• Expert level Knowledge of Application Delivery Controllers / Load Balancers and Global Traffic Managers such as F5
• Experience with networking platforms like Cisco IOS, IOS-XE, ASR, Nexus OS, Catalyst Switches, Arista EOS, Cumulus, Viptela vEdge / vManage, Aruba Wireless, Riverbed Steelhead and Interceptors, Cisco WAAS and AppNavs, Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco ASA VPNs
• Experience in network automation using Python, Ansible, Puppet, etc., Netmiko, Rest API, JSON / XML
• Experience in web frameworks (Django or Flask preferred)
• Experience in Linux systems administration

Minimum Qualifications :

Skills Required

Firewalls, Rest Api, Json, Python