Staff Network Engineer London, UK

In the role of Staff Network Engineer, you will serve as a technical architect and senior project lead for Ripple's global office networks. You will enable world class, 99.9% uptime network and internet access, and support Ripple's accelerated growth through new office network design and commissioning. We want a high impact individual contributor who defines Ripple's standard for global connectivity, and approaches networking from a lens of continuous improvement and an end user experience first mentality. This position blends high level planning with practical senior engineering to support a workforce spread around the world.

• Architectural Leadership: Define and maintain Ripple Office networking standards, promoting continuous improvement, agile scalability, and a world class end user experience. Act as the final technical point of contact for resolving any critical issues in the global network infrastructure.
• NetDevOps and Automation: Grow the next generation of network operations at Ripple by developing best practice utilization of automation, version control, and continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD). Replace manual copy paste configurations with cloud managed deployment, reconciliation, and validation tooling.
• Security and Zero Trust: Collaborate with Information Security and other cross functional teams to drive the next generation of network security at Ripple, implementing Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). Develop a security and compliance posture that is world class, balancing user experience.
• Infrastructure Life Cycle: Manage multi million dollar global hardware through a full lifecycle of design, deployment, maintenance, and upgrades.
• Reliability Engineering: Own Ripple's 99.9% Network availability SLA. Develop changes to architecture needed to robustly meet this SLA, and build advanced observability to accurately measure adherence.
• Vendor and Project Management: Manage relationships with ISPs, hardware vendors, and professional services providers. Lead cross functional projects to meet international deliverables.

• Expert level understanding of Arista EOS (CloudVision) and Aruba Central.
• Deep experience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect, and Prisma or equivalent).
• Great 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.

• Competitive salary, bonuses, and equity
• Competitive benefits covering physical and mental healthcare, retirement, family forming, and family support
• Employee giving match

• R&R days so you can rest and recharge
• Generous wellness reimbursement and weekly onsite & virtual programming
• Generous vacation policy-work with your manager to take time off when you need it
• Industry leading parental leave policies and family planning benefits
• Catered lunches, fully stocked kitchens with premium snacks/beverages, and plenty of fun events

Benefits listed above are for full time employees.

Ripple is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We're committed to building a diverse and inclusive team. We do not discriminate against qualified employees or applicants because of race, color, religion, gender identity, sex, sexual identity, pregnancy, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, marital status, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, military status, or any other characteristic protected by local law or ordinance.