Service Reliability Engineer I

It takes powerful technology to connect our brands and partners with an audience of hundreds of millions of people. Whether you’re looking to write mobile app code, engineer the servers behind our massive ad tech stacks, or develop algorithms to help us process trillions of data points a day, what you do here will have a huge impact on our business—and the world.

Job Description
Yahoo is a global media and tech company that connects people to their passions. We reach nearly 900M people around the world, bringing them closer to what they love—from finance and sports, to shopping, gaming and news—with the trusted products, content and tech that fuel their day. For partners, we provide a full-stack platform for businesses to amplify growth and drive more meaningful connections across advertising, search and media.About the Team
Yahoo’s Global Network Infrastructure team (GNIS) is responsible for the core Network Infrastructure and shared services required to support all Yahoo services globally, including our CDN, Sports, News, Finance and Weather media channels, advertising engines, video and search.
We design and build scalable, high-performance networks, provide long-term storage strategy and automation, manage global name resolution and routing, provide capacity and performance consultation for Yahoo properties, manage Yahoo-wide UNIX distributions & components and connectivity to large scale public cloud providers.About the Role
Work on projects of diverse scope and complexity while focusing on the availability, performance, scalability and resiliency of Yahoo’s production network environments, as well as the theoretical and practical application of industry defined networking standards.
Skills/Knowledge/Abilities:

• -3+ years of experience
• -Experience with large scale global network (production, backbone and corporate) environments.
• -Experience maintaining enterprise LAN/WAN, wireless, authentication, and VPN infrastructures
• -Knowledge of current networking systems including routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, load-balancers and all IP-based protocols
• -Advanced level experience with Juniper, Cisco and Ciena required
• -Strong knowledge in TCP/IP, L2/L3 protocols, LAN, Spanning-tree, WAN, Metro, IPv4, IPv6, BGP, ISIS, OSPF, MPLS, QoS/CoS, MACSec
• -Strong hands on knowledge and experience in layer 1 - Fiber Optic, OTDR, BERT, WDM, ROADM, etc.
• -Strong working knowledge of all OSI Layers focusing on the network stack - TCP/IP, HTTP, DNS, MPLS-TE, VXLAN/EVPN, and Anycast concepts
• -Experience writing automation code in at least one of the following: Python, Perl, Javascript, JS/web frameworks and XML+xpath
• -Excellent communication and written skills, along with network diagramming and network documentation knowledge
• -Create the SOP’s and automate repeatable operational work

Responsibilities:

• -Help resolve complex network infrastructure issues in a tier 2-3 engineering capacity.
• -Support network up-time and health; which is the monitoring, troubleshooting, and maintaining of network hardware and software required to operate complex production networks
• -Support network delivery; which is the design, deployment, scaling, and evolution of complex production networks.
• -Work at each tier of the network OSI model, scripting and designing advanced tools and automations to support the deployment and operation of the network, connecting disparate network architectures using multiple routing protocols, and network and application monitoring.
• -Apply knowledge of IP routing protocols including BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, IP Multicast, MPLS, etc.
• -Implement and support complex network solutions in a hybrid O&O datacenter and public cloud environment
• -Conduct network capacity management, performance tuning, and troubleshooting.
• -Collaborate with architecture, design, tools, and infrastructure teams to develop sound automation solutions
• -Participate and drive postmortem discovery to help troubleshoot design issues and find practical solutions to address barriers, enabling forward movement in the evolution of the network.
• -Perform hardware and software refreshes
• -Document and update policies and procedures
• -Mentor junior staff members on day-to-day operations, analytic skills, and network technologies

Important notes for your attention

Applications:

All applicants must apply for Yahoo openings direct with Yahoo.  We do not authorize any external agencies in India to handle candidates’ applications.   No agency nor individual may charge candidates for any efforts they make on an applicant’s behalf in the hiring process.  

Our internal recruiters will reach out to you directly to discuss the next steps if we determine that the role is a good fit for you.  Selected candidates will go through formal interviews and assessments arranged by Yahoo direct.  

Offer Distributions:

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If you’re curious about how this factors into this role, please discuss with the recruiter.

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