Rakutenamericas

Rakutenamericas

Sr Network Engineer

San Mateo, California · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$99k-$172kDetected 13 days ago
PythoniOSAWSGCPAzureCloud PlatformsAnsibleLinuxNginxRESTCybersecurityNetwork SecuritySIEMVendor ManagementProcurementFirewallVPNCiscoBGP/OSPFSD-WANLoad BalancingNetwork MonitoringVoIPZero Trust

About the role

  • In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing the organization's network infrastructure to ensure reliable and secure connectivity.
  • Your role includes monitoring network traffic, performing upgrades, and collaborating with IT teams to align network architecture with business needs.

Responsibilities

  • Network Architecture & Design: Lead the design and implementation of highly available, secure, scalable network solutions across LAN, WAN, Data Center, and Cloud environments
  • ensure solutions integrate with existing systems and support future growth.
  • regularly review performance and implement improvements to maintain high availability and security.
  • Advanced Troubleshooting & RCA: Act as the SME for complex network incidents-perform root cause analysis, implement permanent fixes, and proactively address performance bottlenecks and capacity constraints.
  • Network Security & Zero Trust / ZTNA: Design, implement, and manage security solutions including NGFW, IDS/IPS, VPN (IPsec/SSL), NAC, and DDoS mitigation
  • lead Zero Trust / ZTNA implementations and optimization, including Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, ensuring alignment with security policies and industry standards.
  • Cloud Networking: Architect, deploy, and manage public-cloud networking (e.g., AWS VPC, Azure VNet, GCP ) including Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, Transit Gateways, and other cloud-native networking capabilities.
  • Automation & Orchestration: Drive network automation initiatives using Python/Ansible and network automation platforms to streamline configuration, deployment, and operational tasks.
  • Load Balancing & Application Delivery: Design and manage ADCs/load balancers (e.g., F5 BIG-IP, Citrix ADC, NGINX ) to ensure application high availability and performance.
  • Monitoring, Observability & Analytics: Implement and manage monitoring/logging platforms (e.g., SolarWinds, PRTG, Splunk, ELK Stack ) to proactively detect issues, analyze performance, and produce actionable insights.

Requirements

  • 5-7 years Required
  • Bachelor's Degree Required
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Linux (LPIC or RHC) Upon Hire Required
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.
  • The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.
  • To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
  • Routing & Switching: Expert BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VRF, QoS
  • SD-WAN (Cisco Viptela/Meraki, FortiManager, Silver Peak)
  • Network OS (Cisco IOS-XE/XR, NX-OS
  • Juniper Junos
  • Arista EOS)
  • Data center switching (Cisco Nexus, Arista, Juniper QFX).
  • Network Security: NGFW (Palo Alto, Cisco FTD, FortiGate)
  • VPN (IPsec, SSL)
  • NAC (Cisco ISE, Aruba ClearPass)

Nice to have

  • QoS for VoIP/video
  • Cisco Unified Communications
  • Microsoft Teams/Zoom network integration.
  • Cisco CCNP Enterprise/Data Center/Security
  • (CCIE preferred)
  • Juniper JNCIP/JNCIE
  • AWS Certified Advanced Networking - Specialty
  • Azure Network Engineer Associate.

Skills

  • SNMP; NetFlow/IPFIX; sFlow; NPM tools (SolarWinds, ExtraHop, AppDynamics); log management/SIEM (Splunk, ELK Stack, Sumo Logic).

Compensation

  • At the time of posting, Rakuten expects the base compensation for this role to be within the range shown below.
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