DE-CIX (German Commercial Internet Exchange) is the world's leading Internet Exchange operator and since its inception it has had a decisive influence on shaping the guiding principles of the present and future Internet in various leading global bodies. At our locations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Asia, we work at the heart of the Internet. For almost 30 years, our interconnection services have contributed to the creation of new digital ecosystems worldwide and have prepared people, businesses, and organizations for the coming decades of digital evolution. The DE-CIX Internet Exchange in Frankfurt (Germany) is one of the largest in the world. For more information, please visit www.de-cix.net.
We are now looking for a committed person for Frankfurt
Senior Network Engineer (w/m/d)
Our Offer
You ensure stable and reliable network services in our IT platform and take over responsibility for the effective operation and maintenance of our networking and firewalling equipment on premise and cloud based. You will be mainly in charge for:
- Designing and contributing to networking infrastructure, automation projects, and developing tools to increase efficiency.
- Addressing network escalations, conducting troubleshooting, fault analysis, and repairs, while providing technical leadership during major incidents.
- Interfacing with relevant departments to ensure optimal service and network performance, as well as improving current processes and workflows.
- Strategic Alignment – Influencing the strategies of peer teams to ensure alignment with the technical direction of the IT strategy and architecture
What also awaits you is
- an appreciative corporate culture and trustful teamwork with like-minded specialists,
- great working conditions (extensive personnel development measures, an occupational pension scheme, weekly language courses, a job ticket, health promotion, support on children care, hybrid working model and lots more)
- Exciting and diverse challenges in an innovative and international environment, with occasional global,
- a crisis-resistant permanent contract with the world´s market leader in its sector
- great modern office space with good coffee and free beverages
- Extremely friendly and supportive colleagues
Benefits
This is important to us
- Solid experience in working in the networking industry on the engineering side, including several years in either a large IT shared services organization or telecom service provider environment.
- Strong understanding of Firewalling and related technologies (e.g.Loadbalancing, VPN, WAN connectivity etc.) as well as and comprehension of the TCP/IP model and their usage principles. Ideally you have several years of experience in working with Fortinet hardware.
- You have expert level knowledge of Networking Protocols and Technologies (Ethernet, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, Juniper HW, QoS etc.) and are familiar with Linux. Additionally, you are proficient in software development (e.g. Python) and scripting tools (Ansible, Git) as well as in monitoring tool such as Zabbix and telemetry.
Contact
If you are able to organize yourself and your work independently, but are also a team player, we look forward to receiving your complete application including salary expectations.
Your contact person for questions is Jutta Kroll.
DE-CIX takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and strictly adheres to the rules of data protection laws. For more information, please see our data protection declaration.
DE-CIX (German Commercial Internet Exchange) is the world's leading Internet Exchange operator and since its inception it has had a decisive influence on shaping the guiding principles of the present and future Internet in various leading global bodies. At our locations in Europe, Africa, North America, the Middle East, and Asia, we work at the heart of the Internet. For almost 30 years, our interconnection services have contributed to the creation of new digital ecosystems worldwide and have prepared people, businesses, and organizations for the coming decades of digital evolution. The DE-CIX Internet Exchange in Frankfurt (Germany) is one of the largest in the world. For more information, please visit www.de-cix.net.
We are now looking for a committed person for Frankfurt
This is important to us
- Solid experience in working in the networking industry on the engineering side, including several years in either a large IT shared services organization or telecom service provider environment.
- Strong understanding of Firewalling and related technologies (e.g.Loadbalancing, VPN, WAN connectivity etc.) as well as and comprehension of the TCP/IP model and their usage principles. Ideally you have several years of experience in working with Fortinet hardware.
- You have expert level knowledge of Networking Protocols and Technologies (Ethernet, BGP, OSPF, EVPN, Juniper HW, QoS etc.) and are familiar with Linux. Additionally, you are proficient in software development (e.g. Python) and scripting tools (Ansible, Git) as well as in monitoring tool such as Zabbix and telemetry.
Our Offer
You ensure stable and reliable network services in our IT platform and take over responsibility for the effective operation and maintenance of our networking and firewalling equipment on premise and cloud based. You will be mainly in charge for:
- Designing and contributing to networking infrastructure, automation projects, and developing tools to increase efficiency.
- Addressing network escalations, conducting troubleshooting, fault analysis, and repairs, while providing technical leadership during major incidents.
- Interfacing with relevant departments to ensure optimal service and network performance, as well as improving current processes and workflows.
- Strategic Alignment – Influencing the strategies of peer teams to ensure alignment with the technical direction of the IT strategy and architecture
What also awaits you is
- an appreciative corporate culture and trustful teamwork with like-minded specialists,
- great working conditions (extensive personnel development measures, an occupational pension scheme, weekly language courses, a job ticket, health promotion, support on children care, hybrid working model and lots more)
- Exciting and diverse challenges in an innovative and international environment, with occasional global,
- a crisis-resistant permanent contract with the world´s market leader in its sector
- great modern office space with good coffee and free beverages
- Extremely friendly and supportive colleagues
Benefits
Contact
If you are able to organize yourself and your work independently, but are also a team player, we look forward to receiving your complete application including salary expectations.
Your contact person for questions is Jutta Kroll.
DE-CIX takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and strictly adheres to the rules of data protection laws. For more information, please see our data protection declaration.