Senior Network Engineer, Sovereign Operations, Public Sector

Google

Reston, VA
30+ days ago

Highlights

We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions. Team members have numerous opportunities for technical growth working with advanced networking protocols, container orchestration technologies, configuration management at scale, and incident triage and resolution.

Numbers & Facts

Location	Reston, VA
Industry	Computer Software
Company Size	10,000 employees or more
Year Founded	1998
Website	https://goo.gle/4dbno6V

Description

Minimum qualifications:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
6 years of experience with network routing protocols, design and troubleshooting, with network equipment providers, in classified environments.
Must possess an active Top Secret/SCI security clearance with current polygraph.

Preferred qualifications:

Experience with network design, installation, and maintenance with service providers or for large enterprise networks.
Proficiency with one or more scripting languages.
Understanding of network theory, technologies, and the operation of routing protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MPLS.
Familiarity with networking equipment and data center infrastructure.
Ability to work in a network operations center environment.

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.

As a Senior Network Engineer on the Sovereign Operations team, you will design, deploy, and operate the WAN connecting Google air-gapped cloud regions and government customers. This team is driven to consistently deliver the most resilient and performant network to host critical customer workloads. As the network continues to scale, operational efficiencies are maintained by embracing the use of automation and proactive monitoring and prediction. This team's responsibility extends to the support of virtual networking services to include DNS, load balancers, and firewalls. Team members have numerous opportunities for technical growth working with advanced networking protocols, container orchestration technologies, configuration management at scale, and incident triage and resolution. Your deliverables are essential to the success of Google Public Sector and government customer missions.

Google Public Sector brings the magic of Google to the mission of government and education with solutions purpose-built for enterprises. We focus on helping United States public sector institutions accelerate their digital transformations, and we continue to make significant investments and grow our team to meet the complex needs of local, state and federal government and educational institutions.Individual pay is determined by factors including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. US: $150000 - $218000 (USD) + 15% bonus target + bonus + equity + benefitsLearn more about benefits at Google.

Responsibilities

Engage and improve the whole life cycle of classified networks from inception and design, to qualification and validation, through deployment, operation and optimization.
Scale networks sustainably and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity.
Collaborate with other team members and groups to analyze requirements and proactively develop solutions and policy recommendations.
Partner with Google’s internal application groups and design network infrastructure which meets their networking requirements.
Lead requirements analysis, engineering design, and solution development of Google’s production network infrastructure.

Google is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or Veteran status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with legal requirements. See also Google's EEO Policy and EEO is the Law. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know by completing our Accommodations for Applicants form.

Benefits

Paid Sick Days, Performance Bonus, Professional Development, 401K, Stock Options, Employee Events, Retirement / Pension Plans, Tuition Reimbursement, Work From Home, Life Insurance, On Site Cafeteria

About Company

Build for everyone

Since our founding in 1998, Google has grown by leaps and bounds. Starting from two computer science students in a university dorm room, we now have thousands of employees and offices around the world. These Googlers build products that help create opportunities for everyone, whether down the street or across the globe.

It starts with how we work together. We’re building a company where people of different views, backgrounds and experiences can do their best work and show up for one another. A place where every Googler feels like they belong.

So whether you develop new technology or creative campaigns, craft beautiful products or breakthrough partnerships, your work here is a chance to accomplish things that matter. Bring your insight, imagination, and healthy disregard for the impossible. Bring everything that makes you unique. Together, we can build for everyone.

Benefits

We strive to provide Googlers and their loved ones with a world-class benefits experience, focused on supporting their physical, financial, and emotional wellbeing. Our benefits are based on data, and centered around our users: Googlers and their families. They’re thoughtfully designed to enhance your health and wellbeing, and generous enough to make it easy for you to take good care of yourself (now, and in the future). So we can build for everyone, together.

Learn more about Google’s benefits on this site featuring Googlers’ experience.

How we Hire

Google’s hiring process is an important part of our culture. Googlers care deeply about their teams and the people who make them up. In order to build for everyone, we know that we need a wide range of perspectives and experiences, and a fair hiring process is the first step in getting there.

Learn more about our hiring process.