Sr. Network Engineer Job at Pixar Animation Studios in Emeryville
Pixar Animation Studios, Emeryville, CA, United States, 94608
We seek a highly skilled and motivated Senior Network Engineer to join our team. This role is ideal for an experienced professional who thrives on tackling diverse technical challenges and embraces the opportunity to innovate within a dynamic environment. You will play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our campus infrastructure, ensuring the network infrastructure's seamless operation that enables our teams to create world-class animated films. As a Senior Network Engineer, you will work alongside a talented and dedicated systems team, contributing to a culture of operational excellence. Our Data Center Operations team drives network stability while regularly implementing hardware and software changes. The ideal candidate is passionate about staying current with emerging technologies and enjoys experimenting with new solutions to continually improve our network environment.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
Provides day-to-day network maintenance to include installation, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of wide- and local-area networks and network equipment
Manage and troubleshoot Wired, Wireless and VPN connectivity to users and systems
Monitor, analyze, and report metrics of network services
Research, design and implement security solutions for network infrastructure
Produce and maintain documentation of all switching and routing equipment and networks, connected network devices and cabling interconnects
Define and document standard operating procedures and maintenance schedules for network devices
Provide root cause analysis for critical issues
Participate in rotation of off-hours on-call support
SKILLS:
5+ years of experience in network management and troubleshooting
Background in Arista, Aruba, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks routing/switching and firewall configuration, or similar
In depth understanding of BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Enterprise Wireless, and L2 technologies
Proficiency with diagnostic and performance monitoring tools such as Cacti, Zabbix, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or similar
Expertise in deploying and maintaining physical servers, networking equipment, and other hardware components in both data center environments and customer end points
Shares knowledge freely, assisting teammates in learning coding, systems engineering, etc., helping to raise the overall skill level of the team
Experience with config management / provisioning automation (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)
Experience with VMware vSwitches and port groups
IPv6 experience
Experience implementing 802.1x
The hiring range for this position in Emeryville is $177,480.00 to $229,680.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.