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Job Description:
At Discover, be part of a culture where diversity, teamwork, and collaboration reign. Join a company that is just as employee focused as it is on its customers and is consistently awarded for both. We're all about people, and our employees are why Discover is a great place to work. Be the reason we help millions of consumers build a brighter financial future and achieve yours along the way with a rewarding career.
Discover will not sponsor or transfer employment work visas for this position. Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis.
The Infrastructure Engineer (F5) works on holistic engineering deliverables across different stages of the product lifecycle and determines technology patterns for the overall solution. This role takes the lead in guiding more junior engineers and is a role model in fostering the adoption of new technologies. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities
- Designs and engineer platforms into production enterprise infrastructure. Runs small to medium enterprise infrastructure projects from requirements gathering to post implementation. Proactively and methodically improves quality and efficiency through automation of network services. Serves as the principal design and often implementation engineer for most enterprise network projects and/or small work efforts. Under guidance of senior engineering, will gather business and network requirements and operational data from one or more sources to formulate solutions of moderate to significant complexity. Can be responsible for identifying various technical alternatives and developing implementation plans. Performs lab research and proof of concept work as appropriate for the role and/or technical task.
- Proactively and methodically improves quality and efficiency through automation of network services.
- Business Relationship / Vendor Management. Stay abreast of current vendors and products, anticipate change, and have a plan in place to react to the change.
- Cost containment / Cost reduction. Understand basic financials and the costs associated with delivering technology solutions and subsequently engineer solutions that align with a financial business model.
- Achieves product commitments (and influences others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills and contributes to or led technology communities
- Uses automation, system tools, open-source solutions, observability and 'security first' principles in daily work
- Contributes to team agile ceremonies, leads demos and presentations, helps new engineers learn established norms
- Initiates high level solution design approaches, and guides team to achieve desired key software delivery capabilities using automated, coded enterprise and observability
- Participates in internal speaking and advocacy events
- Supports research activities to adopt new technology solutions in ways of developing new capabilities
- Continues professional education and creates opportunities for core product teams to learn engineering best practices
- Coaches immediate chapter and actively fosters the adoption of new technologies
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here's what we need from you:
- Bachelors - Computer Science, Engineering, Informatics, Information Security, Information Technology or related
- 3+ Years - (Software) Engineering, DevOps or related
- Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
BIG IP LTM Experience
- Building and troubleshooting virtual servers
- Configuring and deploying SNAT pools
- Creating, modifying, and troubleshooting iRules
- Creating, installing SSL certificates, and troubleshooting ciphers
- Using command line tools such as tcpdump and curl
- Deploying and troubleshooting BIG IP High Availability
- Using BIG IP route domains and partitions
- Understanding of different load balancing methods (ratio, round robin, priority groups, least connections)
BIG IP DNS Experience
- Configuring BIND, DNS Express and creating and modifying wideIPs
- Creating Distributed Applications
- Creating GTM pools and the load balancing methods (global availability, topology, least connections)
- Creating and troubleshooting iRules for wideIPs
Network Engineering
- Strong experience in Cisco Nexus Datacenter Concepts / Platforms including 2k, 5k, 7k, 9k
- Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with routing protocols OSPF, BGP etc.
- Strong and independent working knowledge and experience with Spanning-Tree, HSRP, VRRP, tunneling protocols, spine-leaf architecture, and Cisco ACI.
- Experience with QoS operation and configuration
- Experience in the following Datacenter technologies: FEX, VDC, VPC, Fabric-Path, VRF, OTV, LISP, VXLAN
- Independent and proficient working knowledge with network applications such DNS, DHCP and NTP
- Fundamental knowledge and experience with virtualized compute environments, i.e. Hypervisor, UCS, ESX
- Experience with compliance working with change control processes and adherence to standards
- Experience and independent with managing moderate to complex network projects (planning, organizing, and managing timelines / objectives)
- Strong verbal, written and documentation skills
- CCNP Certification
- CCIE Certification
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Aug-11-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
Compensation:
The base pay for this position generally ranges between $86,500.00 to $146,100.00. Additional incentives may be provided as part of a market competitive total compensation package. Factors, such as but not limited to, geographical location, relevant experience, education, and skill level may impact the pay for this position.
Benefits:
We also offer a range of benefits and programs based on eligibility. These benefits include:
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Time Off
- 401(k) Plan
- Medical, Dental, Vision, & Health Savings Account
- STD, Life, LTD and AD&D
- Recognition Program
- Education Assistance
- Commuter Benefits
- Family Support Programs
- Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Learn more at mydiscoverbenefits.com .
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All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status. (Know Your Rights & Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision)
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