Senior Network Automation Engineer

Join Wise, a global technology company on a mission to make money without borders the new normal. As a Senior Network Engineer, you'll design, implement, and maintain integrations between Wise and complex financial systems, while collaborating with various stakeholders and influencing the direction of technology implementations.

About Wise

• For everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders — without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.
• We're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.
• Inclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.
• If you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit [](https://www.wise.jobs/).
• Keep up to date with life at Wise by following us on [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/1769571/) and [Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/wisecareers/).

Responsibilities

• Design, implement and maintain integrations between Wise and complex financial systems.
• Develop and design scalable and repeatable architecture with complex regulatory requirements.
• Collaborate with our larger platform engineering team and alongside product engineering on globally impactful projects.
• L2 Switching
• Routing: BGP

Requirements

• Strong knowledge of networking fundamentals and experience with supporting complex deployments - TCP/IP, routing and switching, traffic load-balancing/ECMP, configuring firewalls, IPSEC, GRE, security policies, Network ACLs, complex routing with BGP
• Experience in SRE and Network automation - IaaC, Python, Ansible, Netconf, CI/CD, telemetry
• Excellent candidates would have JNCIS/CCNP-level knowledge and familiarity with networking on Linux for non-trivial tasks (e.g: running routing protocols on Linux, IPSec tunnels). Strong candidates will also have hands-on-experience with cloud networking concepts, preferably with AWS (e.g. VPCs, transit gateways, direct-connect, VPC peering). We welcome candidates who aspire to this level of knowledge if they don’t yet have it.

Experience in developing and documenting network designs

• Ability to translate business requirements into explainable technical solutions for internal and external stakeholders
• The following is a list of some of the technologies and vendors we use. It is not an exclusive list nor do we expect you to know everything. But it gives a flavour.
• You’re a self starter who can run with projects
• Reliability and scalability are paramount in your solutions
• Security and privacy by design mindset
• You think about risks and compliance
• You enjoy looking for where you can have impact and upset the norm

You’re happy working in a flat organisation structure

• Technical influencer capable of promoting architectural patterns to internal and external stakeholders
• You are comfortable facing new challenges and creating novel and customised solutions
• You’re collaborative, charismatic and have the ability to tailor communication to the audience - both to technical and non-technical people as needed.
• Effective communication between cross-team stakeholders, peers and leads is key

Preferred

• Leading technical projects or small team of engineers would be a great plus
• AWS Networking: VPC, VGW, Transit-GW, Direct-Connect, VPC Peering, Cloud WAN
• VPNs (we use IPSec heavily)
• Vendors: Cisco, Juniper and Checkpoints (both Physical & Cloud version)
• ISP Peering, DataCenter integrations, cross-connects
• IaaC: Terraform, Ansible, Netconf, Python
• Java Microservices on Kubernetes (Software development experience is nice to have but not essential)
• Git, with Github