Infrastructure Engineer (VP )- Banking client- 2 Days onsite

Purpose of the role

To build and maintain infrastructure platforms and products that support applications and data systems, using hardware, software, networks, and cloud computing platforms as required with the aim of ensuring that the infrastructure is reliable, scalable, and secure. Ensure the reliability, availability, and scalability of the systems, platforms, and technology through the application of software engineering techniques, automation, and best practices in incident response.

To be successful in this role as an Infrastructure Engineer - Production Network Engineering, you should possess the following skillsets:

Extensive experience as an individual contributor in the design, build and operate of Telco hardened virtual infrastructure ecosystems for example Openstack, Kubernetes, QEMU, KVM, HCI spanning Cloud Platforms such as Public, Edge, Private and uCPE Platforms for example x86, Arm CPU architectures to enable the delivery of heterogeneous network systems, products and services at enterprise scale
Deep understanding of open-source networking technologies for example kernel (including eBPF, AF_XDP), OVS, OVN, SoNIC, DENT, Switchdev, ONF stack, Iwd, NetworkManager, including data path acceleration protocols and interfaces such as RDMA, RoCE, iWARP, NVMe, SR-IOV and DPDK, alongside familiarity with Cloud Native Functions and Container Networking Interface plugins
Experience in multi-layered IP Network engineering including good experience in network programming / automation, IaC, configuration management tools and data modelling for example RESTCONF, NETCONF/YANG, Python, Shell, Ansible, Saltstack, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM; with demonstrable experience of DevOps, agile methodologies and CI/CD pipelinesGCS is acting as an Employment Agency in relation to this vacancy