Description

The Senior Network administrator is the subject matter expert in designing and implementing the strategy and platforms for the next-gen operations networks including the, Datacenter / Cloud Networks, and Corporate Networks.

The Network administrator brings a strong perspective that inspires change and motivates colleagues to develop simple solutions to complex problems, driving operations towards automation and self-service tools.

This role is accountable for establishing technical level relationships and partnering with all business disciplines, outsourcing vendors, and external suppliers to define and implement the Network roadmap.

This position will also serve as lead to define and support service delivery and operational support standards for our Next Generation Operations, partnering with the global technology peer teams to meet service level requirements and resolve service delivery issues across the portfolio.

S) / He will develop and execute new initiatives to simplify, standardize, optimize, and automate the network designs, tooling, and operations to reduce implementation cycle times, eliminate service downtime, optimize performance, and ensure that all security and compliance requirements are fully governed.

What you will do :

• Develop complex global distributed infrastructure monitoring, management, and automation solutions to manage our global network.
• Lead design, write, and build tools to improve the reliability, availability, and scalability of Datacenter / Cloud Networks, and Corporate Networks
• Serve as technical lead to design new tools to monitor and smart alerts that help discover failures or issues before our customers.
• Improve service reliability through root cause analysis, blameless postmortems, and using code to prevent or respond to problem recurrence.
• Provide some operational and emergency support but implement automations to reduce support and eliminate toil.

Who you are :

• Experience with complex networking technology including firewalls, VPN, routing, switching, load balancers, monitoring, and security best practices.
• Expert level skills in Unix / Linux system and network administration and agile implementation of production systems
• Strong experience in automation including chef, puppet, ansible, docker and Kubernetes
• Experience inspiring, coordinating, and coaching Technical Operations staff including system and network administrators.
• Ability to nurture and support a strong operations culture : customer / service focus; excellent technology; high quality implementations;

self-motivated innovation and problem-solving.

• Strong understanding of operating systems, networking and systems architecture;
• Strong experience with any cloud, virtualization, and / or container services (AWS, GCP, Azure, VMware, OpenStack, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Swarm, AWS ECS)
• Programming experience with any of Python, Go, PHP, Ruby, .
• Experience in monitoring services (e.g. Nagios, New Relic).
• Systematic approach to solving problems coupled with strong analytic skills.
• Strong communication skills, ownership, and drive.
• Ability to debug and optimize code and automate routine tasks.

What we offer

SITA’s workplace is all about diversity : many different countries and cultures are represented in our workforce, and colleagues who’ve been working here for decades collaborate with those just out of college and early in their careers.

SITA is a place of change and constant improvement, where we're always pushing ourselves to find better ways of doing things : smarter, quicker, easier, for us and our customers and for their customers too.

And we offer all the good stuff you’d expect like holidays, bonuses, flexible benefits, medical policy, pension plan and access to world-class learning.