Senior Network Engineer

Kraken

If you thrive in a challenging, fun and fast-paced environment, the Network Engineer role within Core Infrastructure Engineering at Kraken is for you! Not only is this role a strategic position that is critical to the continuing success of Kraken, but you will be joining a highly dedicated team that is responsible for managing the entire network infrastructure for one of the leading cryptocurrency exchanges in the world. We are looking for a dynamic and innovative self-starter with the ability to think outside of the box to solve complex problems in a sustainable way.

The opportunity

• Implement and evolve enterprise network access controls

• Manage and deploy "infrastructure as code" at scale

• Contribute to the design, implementation, management, and defense of a zero trust , defense-in-depth network

• Write good quality policies, procedures, and technical documentation

• Coordinate with internal development teams and other stakeholders to ensure network security principles are "built-in" from the beginning

• Work with Engineering and IT Security teams to ensure that product features are securely deployed and monitored

• Monitor and maintain all physical infrastructure (network, security, and compute), cloud data center environments, remote office locations, and respond to critical network problems to maximize service uptime

• Mentor and evangelize security practices through cross-functional work with internal stakeholders and teams

Skills you should HODL

• 4+ years of network engineering background including offensive/defensive security

• Deep experience in public (AWS or Azure or Google), private and/or hybrid cloud infrastructure

• Experience of network automation tools (e.g. Nornir, Napalm, Terraform, Ansible)

• Experience in managing and deploying Infrastructure as Code

• Experience with network security management tools and techniques

• Familiarity with security testing tools (performance and threat-based)

• Proficient in network and security design, implementation, and administration leveraging industry standard platforms from vendors such as: Palo Alto Networks, Cisco, Juniper, and Aruba

• Experience with Switching (Capacity Planning & VLAN s), Routing (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, ECMP, PBF), WAN Technologies (MPLS, VPLS, VPN), public cloud networking, and Security (IPS, RBAC, etc.)

• Previous experience monitoring and management of intrusion detection systems and firewall devices

• Demonstrated experience implementing defensive security systems that are used against internal and external attack vectors