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Senior Network Engineer

Summary

Maintain and troubleshoot DigiCert’s global production network, responding to incidents and ensuring uptime across data centers and cloud environments.

Who we are

DigiCert is a global leader in intelligent trust. We protect the digital world by ensuring the security, privacy, and authenticity of every interaction. Our AI-powered DigiCert ONE platform unifies PKI, DNS, and certificate lifecycle management, to secure infrastructure, software, devices, messages, AI content and agents. Learn why more than 100,000 organizations, including 90% of the Fortune 500, choose DigiCert to stop today’s threats and prepare for a quantum-safe future at

Job summary

  • The Network Infrastructure team is responsible for the operation, monitoring, maintenance, and support of DigiCert's global production network.
  • This position serves as a first responder for network incidents and operational requests, providing initial troubleshooting, monitoring, and administration of production network systems.

What you will do

  • Network Operations & Monitoring
  • Monitor the health, performance, and availability of global production network infrastructure.
  • Review device logs, alerts, and monitoring systems to identify and respond to operational issues.
  • Perform initial troubleshooting and incident response for network-related events.
  • Troubleshoot network, application, database, DNS, load balancing, and service connectivity issues across data center and cloud environments.
  • Work with Internet service providers, telecommunications carriers, cloud providers, application teams, database administrators, and third-party vendors to diagnose and resolve connectivity, routing, latency, and service-impacting issues.
  • Participate in incident response activities and assist with service restoration efforts during production outages.
  • Escalate complex issues to senior engineers while providing accurate documentation and diagnostics.
  • Participate in root cause analysis activities following service-impacting incidents
  • Implement routine network configuration changes following established procedures.
  • Perform basic firewall policy modifications and access control changes.

    What you will have
  • Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
  • 5+ years of experience supporting enterprise, service provider, or data center network environments.
  • Understanding of: TCP/IP, DNS, Routing and switching fundamentals, VLANs and network segmentation, Firewall concepts, VPN technologies
  • Understand routing protocols and route troubleshooting concepts.
  • Experience using network monitoring, logging, and observability platforms to identify, investigate, and respond to infrastructure issues.
  • Experience reviewing system and device logs to assist with troubleshooting and incident response activities.
  • Experience responding to operational incidents and working within established incident management processes.
  • Experience troubleshooting network, application, database, DNS, and service connectivity issues in collaboration with service providers, cloud providers, vendors, and internal technical teams.
  • Ability to perform network troubleshooting and isolate issues across routing, switching, firewall, load balancing, and cloud-connected environments.
    Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to follow operational procedures in a highly controlled production environment
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills
  • Ability to participate in on-call support rotation and monthly maintenance.

Nice to have

  • Familiarity with Linux-based systems.
  • Exposure to modern data center networking architectures, including Leaf-Spine fabric designs.
  • Familiarity with data center networking technologies such as:
    Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
    Virtual Extensible LAN (VXLAN)
    Ethernet VPN (EVPN)
  • Understanding of overlay and underlay networking concepts within modern data center environments.
    Experience supporting Arista EOS-based switching environments.
  • Experience using Arista CloudVision for network management, monitoring, automation, and operational visibility.
  • Ability to perform under pressure during incidents.
  • Ability to work effectively within a global infrastructure team.

Benefits

  • Generous time off policies
  • Top shelf benefits
  • Education, wellness and lifestyle support

To protect candidate information and maintain a secure hiring process, all applications must be submitted through our careers portal. Resumes or CVs sent directly via email will not be reviewed or considered.

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What this application asks

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  • Have you completed secondary education or its equivalent? choose one · optional
  • Are you legally authorized to work in the country in which this role is located? choose one
  • Will you now or in the future require sponsorship to work in the country where this role is based? choose one
  • Please confirm the Country in which you currently reside? choose one
  • If the country you currently live in is NOT listed in the question above, please confirm in which country you live? optional
  • What state are you currently located in? choose one
  • If the state you currently live in is not listed above, please confirm which state you reside in. Please complete this only if you selected ‘State Not Listed’ above. optional
  • What are your salary expectations for this role?
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  • If you were referred for this position, please provide the full name of the referrer optional
  • Please provide a link to your LinkedIn profile.
  • As part of the employment process, all candidates are subject to employment and education verification, as well as a comprehensive background check, in accordance with applicable laws and company policies. I understand that I will be provided with additional information and asked to provide authorization before any such checks are conducted.  choose one
  • I understand that all information provided in my application must be accurate and truthful, and that any misrepresentation may result in disqualification from the hiring process or termination of employment if discovered after hire.  choose one
  • I acknowledge that DigiCert and its service providers may collect and process my image and related identity verification information to verify my identity, prevent fraud, maintain security, and administer the hiring process. I understand that this information will be used only for these purposes and retained in accordance with DigiCert's applicable policies and legal obligations. If I choose not to provide the information required to complete identity verification, DigiCert may be unable to continue processing my application. Do you acknowledge and agree? choose one

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