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Network Security Production Engineer - Load Balancing

Location

New York

Business Area

Engineering and CTO

Ref #

10048481

Description & Requirements

As an SME for load balancing, you will be a critical member of the team responsible for the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure that supports Bloomberg’s core products and services. This includes building and maintaining a load balancing environment that is scalable, secure, reliable and robust. Our network is vast, connecting several large-scale Data Centers and over a hundred edge sites. It connects Bloomberg to hundreds of thousands of our clients, over 1,500 global exchanges and trading venues over private connectivity, Internet and Public Cloud.

This is a unique opportunity to help build robust, highly scalable solutions that will power the future of how Bloomberg automates network infrastructure. You'll be trusted to design and work on tooling that builds on automation best practices and principles.

We’ll trust you to

+ Develop and maintain software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor network with an emphasis on automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code.

+ Automate the full network lifecycle—including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning.

+ Collaborate with architecture and design teams and the CTO office to implement new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience.

+ Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network.

+ Enhance existing monitoring and observability frameworks, integrating intelligent alerting and self-remediation capabilities to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response.

+ Define and measure service-level objectives (SLOs) to track infrastructure performance and reliability.

+ Write software utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems.

+ Provide mentorship to junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices throughout the team.

+ Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle.

You need to have

+ 4+ years of engineering experience in an infrastructure role or equivalent work experience.

+ Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer especially in the Load Balancer space.

+ Experience with building, maintaining and continuously enhancing automation needed for scalability & efficiency in running the Network Infrastructure.

+ Experience in infrastructure Automation or orchestration Frameworks e.g. Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Salt.

+ Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages preferably in Python.

+ A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, Engineering, Mathematics, a similar field of study or equivalent work experience.

We'd love to see

+ Experience managing and automating network devices at scale such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Palo Alto, F5, Whitebox, Broadcom, etc

+ Experience with virtualization and containerization

+ Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others

+ Experience with software load balancers.

Salary Range = 130000 - 225000 USD Annually + Benefits + Bonus

The referenced salary range is based on the Company's good faith belief at the time of posting. Actual compensation may vary based on factors such as geographic location, work experience, market conditions, education/training and skill level.

We offer one of the most comprehensive and generous benefits plans available and offer a range of total rewards that may include merit increases, incentive compensation (exempt roles only), paid holidays, paid time off, medical, dental, vision, short and long term disability benefits, 401(k) +match, life insurance, and various wellness programs, among others. The Company does not provide benefits directly to contingent workers/contractors and interns.

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Bloomberg is a disability inclusive employer. Please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments to be made for the recruitment process. If you would prefer to discuss this confidentially, please email [email protected]