Principal Network 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, and 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 datacenter and cloud environments.  This team focuses on the stability and reliability of our global infrastructure leveraging existing standards, processes, and automation solutions.  In this role you will serve as a domain expert in networking technologies and the supporting both datacenter and cloud infrastructure.

The Principal Network Engineer position is a Network Operational role during the US base hours of - Monday - Friday 10AM Eastern US to 6PM Eastern US. (7:30 PM IST to 3:30AM IST).

You will:

• Be required to work US hours shift and weekend on-call rotation.
• Excellent verbal and writing skills (English)
• Be highly focused and rapid response to incidents and requests.
• Have strong decision making skills in a high pressure, fast paced troubleshooting role.
• Support our global network infrastructure in a hybrid cloud environment.
• Implement changes, upgrades and preventative maintenance to infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot hardware, software, and vendor incidents to resolution and identify remediation improvements. 
• Develop and leverage automation and monitoring tools to maximize visibility and recovery.
• Collaborate in a global team on projects and operational efficiencies.
• Work from Hyderabad or Pune, India

You have:

• Strong working knowledge in configuring and troubleshooting routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, and static). 
• 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 firewall configurations,maintenance and security concepts. 
• Experience cloud technologies - GCP, AWS, Azure (GCP preferred)
• Experience with version control concepts and operations. (Git)
• Use of automation tools and modules (Rundeck/Puppet/Terraform)

    Preferred Skills

• Strong scripting skills and network automation concepts.
• Experience with Palo Alto firewall configurations and maintenance.
• Experience with F5 LTM and AFM configurations and maintenance.
• Experience with cloud technologies and IaC deployments. 
• Experience with virtual and containerized deployments in both data center and cloud. 
• Experience with Kubernetes and GKE deployments and networking elements. (CNI, Itsio, Calico)
• Understanding of CI/CD pipeline components, support, functionality, and tools.
• Experience with data formats XML, JSON, YAML and parsing with Python data structures.
• Understanding the principles of an Agile development environment
• Understanding webhooks, API styles, HTTP Response codes, and authentication mechanisms.
• Experience with Ansible deployments and creating ansible playbooks
• Experience with Jenkins and parameterization. 
• 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.

Benefits:

•  Health: medical, dental, and vision
• Time away: vacation and holidays
• Development: Generous tuition reimbursement and access to internal professional development resources.
• Equal opportunity employer
• #LI-Remote

Why you’ll love working here:

As leaders in enterprise customer conversations, we celebrate diversity, empowering our team to forge impactful conversations globally. LivePerson is a place where uniqueness is embraced, growth is constant, and everyone is empowered to create their own success. And, we're very proud to have earned recognition from Fast Company, Newsweek, and BuiltIn for being a top innovative, beloved, and remote-friendly workplace. 

Belonging at LivePerson: 

 We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, ancestry, color, family or medical care leave, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, medical condition, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status, race, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local law.

 We are committed to the accessibility needs of applicants and employees. We provide reasonable accommodations to job applicants with physical or mental disabilities. Applicants with a disability who require reasonable accommodation for any part of the application or hiring process should inform their recruiting contact upon initial connection.