Sr. Network QA Engineer

Equinix is one of the fastest growing data center companies, growing connectivity between clients worldwide. That’s why we're always looking for creative and forward thinking people who can help us achieve our goal of global interconnection. With 200 data centers in over 24 countries spanning across 5 continents, we are home to the Cloud, supporting over 1000 Cloud and IT services companies that are directly engaged in technological innovation and development. We are passionate about further evolving the specific areas of software development, software and network architecture, network operations and complex cloud and application solutions. 

At Equinix, we make the internet work faster, better, and more reliably. We hire talented people who thrive on solving hard problems and give them opportunities to hone new skills, try new approaches, and grow in new directions. Our culture is at the heart of our success and it’s our authentic, humble, gritty people who create The Magic of Equinix. We share a real passion for winning and put the customer at the center of everything we do.

Job Summary: Analyzes business requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Designs software systems.

Responsibilities

Requirements Analysis

• Understands, reads, and reviews requirements




• Works with Business Analysts to understand business requirements




• Interacts with product management teams to understand product requirements

Software Architecture

• Participates in architectural review process

Software Design

• Leads Features and multiple modules design and participates in overall product design




• Provides technical leadership to the team




• Evaluates and recommends adoption of open source (pivot points to Software Architecture job family)

Development/Coding

• Develops scripts and code for a feature and multiple modules and product




• Cross-technical integration




• Participates in peer reviews




• Adoption of standard coding processes

Testing

• Develops unit tests




• Fixes defects




• Develops test strategies




• Recommends testing frameworks

DevOps

• Defines roadmap of automation tools and its value to software engineering practices




• Drives infrastructure provisioning working with cross-domain teams and works on projecting future infrastructure capacity




• Takes accountability of the Design Reviews and deliverables

Software Reliability & Support Engineering

• Defines roadmap of production change control and its value to software engineering practices




• Drives certification processes working with cross-domain teams




• Takes accountability of the Operational SLAs




• Debugs L2 and L3 incidents/problems

Customer/Stakeholder Engagement

• N/A

Technical Project Management

• Provides level of effort (LOE)




• Works with technical project managers and product management teams to define schedule




• Provides status reports




• Defines and drives release management planning

R&D/Innovation

• Investigates, analyzes, and evaluates new technologies




• Influences senior management in setting the organization's technical objectives




• Keeps abreast of new developments to help define the necessary changes to practice

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7+ years of networking and data center experience.




• Bachelor's in Computer Science or Computer Engineering




• Expertise in enterprise-class multi-data center infrastructures (Juniper, Cisco, Nokia, Arista)




• Highly proficient and hands on experience in the following inter networking technologies IPv4/IPv6, BGP/MBGP, MPLS, L2VPN, L3VPN, L2 switching, VxLAN, EVPN-VXLAN, NAT, Firewall.




• Experience with various OS favors including Ubuntu, CentOS, MS Server, VMware ESXi.




• Experience with Linux networking functionalities.




• Experience with orchestration: Ansible (preferred), Chef or Puppet.




• Experience in managing server farms and is capable of troubleshooting complex problems.




• Experience in managing data center operations, including monitoring, alerting and notifications




• Knowledge with either Python and/or Go.




• Proficient in Git and similar repository management.




• Creative thinker, strong problem solver and passionate about quality.




• Comfortable and adaptable in a fast-paced and informal environment.




• Able to effectively perform multiple/concurrent tasks within deadlines in a dynamic environment.




• Familiarity with Agile/Scrum methodologies.




• Hands-on experience with QA methodologies and software lifecycle.

Equinix is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, status as a protected veteran, or status as a qualified individual with disability.