Network Engineer, Global Infrastructure

In this position you will join our Global Infrastructure team who manages all of LTN's data centers and networks to build our highly reliable and scalable network infrastructure and core network services for delivering a wide platform of broadcast media services developed by LTN engineering. You will be a significant part of a small but highly skilled team providing the foundation for the entire company. You will work with world class developers and engineers to build creative and innovative new technology for media services in ways no other company is doing and have been proven to be unmatched in reliability and ability to deliver solutions to complex video workflows which drive the business of tier-1 media companies.

You will maintain and expand both the LTN backbone IP network and make those core network resources available to all of the LTN products and services that need reliable and scalable networking. Additionally, you will provide technical research and testing on new network services and capabilities and help develop the automation and monitoring required to manage them at scale. This role involves hands-on management of production switches and routers as well as network architecture design and development of automation software at scale.

The candidate is creative and curious, with a deep interest and willingness to learn and grow. They also possess a very strong work ethic, have poise and confidence in presenting to sophisticated business and technical teams.

Your Role and Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with internal development, engineering and product teams to share knowledge and design future scalable network and video services on our global datacenter platform.
• Provide analysis, troubleshooting and operational support to mitigate and resolve network outages or degraded performance.
• Develop automation software leveraging best-in-class open source as well as proprietary software to manage the configuration and monitoring of a global network of switches and routers.
• Build, upgrade and maintain core switches and routers in LTNs backbone datacenter network as well as video production facilities and company offices.
• Leverage both Linux and hardware switch-based routing platforms to provide reliable and highly performant data routing for core services as well as control and monitoring traffic.
• Create and maintain documentation of network infrastructure solutions and configurations
• Participate in technical research and development on network related topics to enable continuing innovation and new capability development within the company

Experience/Required Skills:

• Ability to take high level project description and create detailed technical plans and then execute them
• Detail oriented with strong organizational skills, with the ability to multitask and prioritize.
• Proven track record of ownership of system(s) from design and implementation to administration and maintenance
• Ability to work independently, and as integral part of a small team
• Strong communication skills to proactively and openly share knowledge with internal teams and external customers on network related technology and services
• Proactive mindset and forward looking approach to building and operating extremely high reliability networks and services
• Experience with VyOS and Linux based routing
• Experience with Arista and Cisco L2 and L3 switches
• Experience with BGP routing and peering
• Experience with IGMPv2 and v3 with scalable PIM-SM for multicast
• Experience with VXLAN and EVPN-VXLAN overlays
• Experience with network automation libraries and platforms such as Arista's eAPI and the open source NAPALM library for switch automation
• Knowledge of sophisticated Linux network configuration, such as policy routing and multicast
• Experience with advanced WAN Internet Routing (BGP, BGP security, RPKI, DDOS scrubbing, Route reflectors)
• Ability to participate in a 24x7 on-call shift rotations, including weekend coverage

Preferred (not required):

• REST APIs
• Broadcast network design and architecting operating video networks using industry standards such as SMPTE 2110, 2022-7 and NDI
• Knowledge of the broadcast and media industry technology:
  • Video encoding standards over IP including MPEG-TS
  • IP video transport protocols such as RIST, SRT, Zixi
  • IP fiber video transport using for example Nimbra or Medialinks platforms
• PMACCT or other routing data collection and aggregation tools
• Public Cloud networks (AWS/Azure/GCP)
• Professional certifications: (CCNA, CCIE, ACE..)