Staff Network Engineer

At Ripple, we're building a world where value moves like information does today. It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs. 

If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

At Ripple, we're building a world where value moves like information does today. It's big, it's bold, and we're already doing it. Through our crypto solutions for financial institutions, businesses, governments and developers, we are improving the global financial system and creating greater economic fairness and opportunity for more people, in more places around the world. And we get to do the best work of our career and grow our skills surrounded by colleagues who have our backs.

If you're ready to see your impact and unlock incredible career growth opportunities, join us, and build real world value.

Overview:

In the role of Staff Network Engineer, you will serve as a technical architect and senior project lead for Ripple's global office networks. You will enable world class, 99.9% uptime network and internet access, and support Ripple's accelerated growth through new office network design and commissioning. We want a high-impact individual contributor who defines Ripple's standard for global connectivity, and approaches networking from a lens of continuous improvement and an end-user-experience-first mentality. This position blends high-level planning with practical senior engineering to support a workforce spread around the world.

Key Responsibilities

• Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain Ripple Office networking standards, in a way that promotes continuous improvement, agile scalability, and a world class end user experience. Act as the final technical point of contact for resolving any critical issues in the global network infrastructure.
• NetDevOps and Automation: Grow the next generation of network operations at Ripple, by developing best practice utilization of automation, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). Replace manual "copy-paste" configurations with cloud-managed deployment, reconciliation, and validation tooling.
• Security and Zero Trust: Collaborate with the Information Security and other cross-functional teams to drive the next generation of network security at Ripple, implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Develop a security and compliance posture that is world class, but carefully balances user experience.
• Infrastructure Life Cycle: Manage multi-million dollar global hardware through a full lifecycle of design, deployment, maintenance, and upgrades. 
• Reliability Engineering: Ownership of Ripple's 99.9% Network availability SLA. Develop changes to architecture needed to robustly meet this SLA, and develop advanced observability to accurately measure adherence. 
• Vendor and Project Management: Manage relationships with ISPs, hardware vendors, and professional services providers. Lead cross-functional projects to meet international deliverables.

Required Technical Expertise

• Expert-level understanding of Arista EOS (CloudVision) and Aruba Central.
• Deep experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma or equivalent experience)
• Great understanding of cloud based Radius/TACACS+ authentication and certificate management platforms such as Arista AGNI, Foxpass, and ClearPass.
• Expertise in Arista (EOS/CloudVision) and Juniper (JunOS) switching/routing stacks. Experience with MLAG and LACP switch stacking for high availability.
• Senior-level experience with Aruba wireless solutions, particularly Aruba Central in extensive global deployments with high user density.
• Proficiency in NetDevOps tooling such as Python, Ansible.
• Advanced administration of tools like Infoblox (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) in a high-availability, multi-site environment.
• Proficiency with SNMP-based alerting and logging platforms (Auvix, Logicmonitor, etc)
• Expert knowledge of core protocols and standards such as BGP, BFD, STP, and 802.11ax/be wireless standards.
• Experience with network modernization practices like SD-WAN and ZTNA
• Experience with new office network design and installation