JOB DESCRIPTION 

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or equivalent practical experience.

• Experience with Network Test Automation, TCP/IP, IP Peering, Network Protocol Management, Network Troubleshooting, Network Design, C++, and Go.
   

Preferred qualifications:

Industry relevant expert level certifications.

• Experience with networking technologies/concepts such as Software Defined Networking (SDN) and OpenFlow.
   
• Experience in design and implement LAB network matching production environment, tooling for config and debug of devices, design tests to verify interoperability between vendor gears.
   

About the job

Google is proud to boast a network that provides service to millions of Internet users around the world. The Network Engineering team is responsible for operating that network reliably and at scale. As a member of the team, you have a direct impact on design and feature enhancements to keep our systems running smoothly. You also ensure that network operations are safe and efficient by monitoring network performance, coordinating planned maintenance, adjusting hardware components and responding to network connectivity issues. Google's complex network generates a constant stream of challenges which require you to continually be innovative with an evolving set of technologies. Keeping the network reliable ensures that our users stay connected with our suite of applications, products and services.

Google's network engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Google Network Infrastructure team works on the systems to deliver compute and storage not available anywhere else through tightly-coupled, highly available network infrastructure. Our Google Wide Area Network (gWAN) Build and Safety team plans, designs and builds Google's global private WAN network. In this role, you will deliver the networking that enables all Google’s technical infrastructure.

Behind everything our users see online is the architecture built by the Technical Infrastructure team to keep it running. From developing and maintaining our data centers to building the next generation of Google platforms, we make Google's product portfolio possible. We're proud to be our engineers' engineers and love voiding warranties by taking things apart so we can rebuild them. We keep our networks up and running, ensuring our users have the best and fastest experience possible.

Responsibilities

• Define and describe network problems, write documents to describe test plans and procedures, execute and publish results of test plans or process documentation for Google-wide use. Review test plans with the team and participate in cross-functional test results reviews.
   
• Write and automate test plans, identify and gather requirements to execute tests for several features of moderate to high-complexity projects (e.g., BGP protocol testing, link aggregation control protocol testing, quality of service testing) with minimal guidance.
   
• Contribute to the development and testing of new features that are part of the larger product development lifecycles. Identify, troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve software, hardware, and other network and system problems, with minimal guidance.
   
• Update the operational requirements to adopt new technology into operations (software defined networking), in collaboration with engineering, architecture, and developers.
   
• Experience with Python coding.