Principal Engineer

About The Role

Group Configuration Management Systems, part of the Claranet Group Engineering, the area focuses on network automation, provisioning, and reporting systems along with systems integration as necessary.

The role involves development and enhancement of these systems and interaction and co-operation with infrastructure and support teams who are the suppliers and customers of these systems, providing ongoing support.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Work with our networks, implementation and architecture teams, along with other key stakeholders to design and implement new features
  
  
• Help our infrastructure teams build and maintain high availability infrastructure to support the team's software
  
  
• Provide solid technical understanding of our codebase - working alongside skilled peers
  
  
• Reduce our existing system’s complexity and be willing to tackle application legacy
  
  
• Build and maintain our network automation system and surrounding services
  
  
• Work with network device APIs and user interfaces
  
  
• Understand and improve our network data model
  
  
• Improve application efficiency and performance
  
  
• Participate in code reviews
  
  
• Contribute to improve and develop standards and best practice
  
  
• Participate in an on-call rotation for our software
  
  Position specifications
  
  Essential:
  
  
• Excellent working knowledge of Java and Perl
  
  
• Excellent knowledge of Python
  
  
• Ability to learn new programming languages and technologies as necessary
  
  
• Ability to produce reliable and well tested code
  
  
• Knowledgeable with SQL databases
  
  
• Good systems and software engineering skills
  
  
• Good knowledge of computer networking technologies (TCP, IPv4/IPv6, HTTP, DNS, etc..)
  
  
• Good knowledge of Linux and experience with virtualisation and containerisation technologies
  
  
• Experience working with distributed modern infrastructure (Docker / Kubernetes)
  
  
• Version control, CI/CD pipelines
  
  
• Good troubleshooting and debugging skills
  
  
• Attention to detail
  
  
• Ability to share knowledge and ideas as well as listening to other’s opinions
  
  
• Be fluent in English with good written and verbal communication skills
  
  Desirable:
  
  
• Experience with Service Provider networking (IS-IS, BGP, MPLS)
  
  
• Experience with Data Centre networking (L2, VXLAN)
  
  
• Experience with Google Web Toolkit (GWT)