JOB DESCRIPTION 

Role Description

As a Network Engineer, you will work with the Dropbox CorpNet team and partner with the greater CorpEng organization to deliver a high quality network and corporate network experience. You will be responsible for the day to day operations, design and implementation of the corporate network.  You will lead the Dropbox network into its next phase of success by developing and scaling new and existing technologies aimed at helping securely connect Dropboxers no matter where they’re located. 

Responsibilities

• Help build, scale, deploy, and support our global network and datacenter infrastructure.
• Contribute to the day to day support operation of the global Dropbox network.
• Participate in On-call rotation and serve as an Escalation point for service incidents
• Architect, design and implement the next generation office networks for Dropbox.
• Be a hands-on engineer with deep technical experience in networking, systems, and software.
• Operate in a rapidly evolving environment, adapt quickly to new information, and re-prioritize as needed.
• Help develop the team by encouraging strengths, coaching and technical mentoring.
• Lead in the planning of strategic initiatives and ensure organizational alignment in partnership with our key stakeholders.
• Guide in developing and maturing our automation capabilities,  based upon analyzing and identifying significant opportunities where automation can tackle volume, systemic or critical operational/repeatable issues.
• Drive our next generation of monitoring, alerting and automation tools to empower the teams with visibility and data to make informed decisions.
• You will work multi-functionally with serving, engineering, and development teams to maintain a highly available, highly performant infrastructure

Dropbox is a company with global presence and has employees located all over the world. We connect over 3000 Dropboxers in over X global locations.

Requirements 

• 7+ years technical network engineering experience including hands on deployment, configuration and management of routers, switches, firewalls, wifi and security solutions. 
• Experience with engineering design of data center networks, new office build-outs and wide-area networks, including points of presence (PoPs), transit, backbone and transport.
• Experience in defining and developing cutting edge technical road-maps to meet the needs of a growing company.
• Strong Knowledge and hands-on experience working with networking protocols.
• Experience with Linux systems and shells, daemons, and processes
• Experience building, deploying, and operating distributed services and monitoring for production networks
• Passion for driving continual improvement initiatives in our network. You are able to monitor and measure the health of your service with metrics, SLA reporting, and dashboards. 
• Expertise and hands on experience with Juniper, Cisco, network stack.
• Extensive Experience with AWS/Cloud based infrastructure 
• Extensive experience with authentication/authorization and accounting for enterprise networks.
• Extensive experience with Deploying and maintaining robust Wifi Infrastructure
• Extensive experience deploying and maintaining vpn solutions.
• Experience working with networking vendors, telecom carriers, transit providers, etc.
• Knowledge of methods and procedures for managing instrumentation, automation, and orchestration
• BA/BS degree from a 4-year university/professional school or equivalent; work experience accepted.