Staff Network Engineer
You will serve as a technical architect and senior project lead for Ripple's global office networks. You'll enable world class, 99.9% uptime network and internet access, and support Ripple's accelerated growth through new office network design and commissioning. You'll be a high-impact individual contributor who defines Ripple's standard for global connectivity, approaching networking with a continuous improvement and end-user-experience-first mentality. This role blends high-level planning with practical senior engineering to support a workforce spread around the world.
Responsibilities
- Define and maintain Ripple Office networking standards that promote continuous improvement, agile scalability, and a world class end user experience
- Act as the final technical point of contact for resolving critical issues in the global network infrastructure
- Develop best practice utilization of automation, version control, and CI/CD
- Replace manual copy-paste configurations with cloud-managed deployment, reconciliation, and validation tooling
- Collaborate with Information Security and cross-functional teams to implement Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA)
- Develop a security and compliance posture that balances user experience
- Manage multi-million dollar global hardware through design, deployment, maintenance, and upgrades
- Own the 99.9% Network availability SLA
- Develop changes to architecture needed to meet the SLA and develop advanced observability
- Manage relationships with ISPs, hardware vendors, and professional services providers
- Lead cross-functional projects to meet international deliverables
Requirements
- Expert-level understanding of Arista EOS (CloudVision) and Aruba Central
- Deep experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma or equivalent experience)
- Understanding of cloud based Radius/TACACS+ authentication and certificate management platforms such as Arista AGNI, Foxpass, and ClearPass
- Expertise in Arista (EOS/CloudVision) and Juniper (JunOS) switching/routing stacks
- Experience with MLAG and LACP switch stacking for high availability
- Senior-level experience with Aruba wireless solutions, particularly Aruba Central in extensive global deployments with high user density
- Proficiency in NetDevOps tooling such as Python, Ansible
- Advanced administration of tools like Infoblox (DNS/DHCP/IPAM) in a high-availability, multi-site environment
- Proficiency with SNMP-based alerting and logging platforms (Auvix, Logicmonitor, etc)
- Expert knowledge of core protocols and standards such as BGP, BFD, STP, and 802.11ax/be wireless standards
- Experience with network modernization practices like SD-WAN and ZTNA
- Experience with new office network design and installation
Benefits
- Professional development budget
- In-office collaboration flexibility of 10+ days a month
- Bi-weekly all-company meeting
- Team offsites, team bonding activities, happy hours
- Competitive bonuses and equity
- Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
- Employee giving match
- Mobile phone stipend
- R&R days
- Wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
- Generous vacation policy
- Parental leave policies and family planning benefits
- Catered lunches, fully-stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages