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Sr. Network Engineer

Apply Now Apply Later Job ID R-03825 Location Emeryville, California, United States Business Pixar Animation Studios Date posted Nov. 14, 2024

Job Summary:

We seek a highly skilled and motivated Senior Network Engineer to join our team. This role is ideal for an experienced professional who thrives on tackling diverse technical challenges and embraces the opportunity to innovate within a dynamic environment. You will play a critical role in maintaining and enhancing our campus infrastructure, ensuring the network infrastructure's seamless operation that enables our teams to create world-class animated films. As a Senior Network Engineer, you will work alongside a talented and dedicated systems team, contributing to a culture of operational excellence. Our Data Center Operations team drives network stability while regularly implementing hardware and software changes. The ideal candidate is passionate about staying current with emerging technologies and enjoys experimenting with new solutions to continually improve our network environment.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Provides day-to-day network maintenance to include installation, configuration, operation, and troubleshooting of wide- and local-area networks and network equipment

  • Manage and troubleshoot Wired, Wireless and VPN connectivity to users and systems

  • Monitor, analyze, and report metrics of network services

  • Research, design and implement security solutions for network infrastructure

  • Produce and maintain documentation of all switching and routing equipment and networks, connected network devices and cabling interconnects

  • Define and document standard operating procedures and maintenance schedules for network devices

  • Provide root cause analysis for critical issues

  • Participate in rotation of off-hours on-call support

 

SKILLS:

  • 5+ years of experience in network management and troubleshooting

  • Background in Arista, Aruba, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks routing/switching and firewall configuration, or similar

  • In depth understanding of BGP, TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, Enterprise Wireless, and L2 technologies

  • Proficiency with diagnostic and performance monitoring tools such as Cacti, Zabbix, Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus, Kibana, or similar

  • Expertise in deploying and maintaining physical servers, networking equipment, and other hardware components in both data center environments and customer end points

  • Shares knowledge freely, assisting teammates in learning coding, systems engineering, etc., helping to raise the overall skill level of the team

  • Experience with config management / provisioning automation (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Chef)

  • Experience with VMware vSwitches and port groups

  • IPv6 experience

  • Experience implementing 802.1x

The hiring range for this position in Emeryville is $177,480.00 to $229,680.00 per year. The base pay actually offered will take into account internal equity and also may vary depending on the candidate’s geographic region, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience among other factors.

About Pixar Animation Studios:

Pixar Animation Studios, a wholly owned subsidiary of The Walt Disney Company, is an Academy Award®-winning film studio with world-renoinswned technical, creative and production capabilities in the art of computer animation. The Northern California studio has created some of the most successful and beloved animated films of all time, including “Toy Story,” “Monsters, Inc.,” “Cars,” “The Incredibles,” “Ratatouille,” “WALL•E,” “Up,” “Toy Story 3,” “Brave,” “Inside Out,” and “Coco.” Its movies have won 35 Academy Awards® and have grossed more than $13 billion at the worldwide box office to date.

About The Walt Disney Company:

The Walt Disney Company, together with its subsidiaries and affiliates, is a leading diversified international family entertainment and media enterprise that includes three core business segments: Disney Entertainment, ESPN, and Disney Experiences. From humble beginnings as a cartoon studio in the 1920s to its preeminent name in the entertainment industry today, Disney proudly continues its legacy of creating world-class stories and experiences for every member of the family. Disney’s stories, characters and experiences reach consumers and guests from every corner of the globe. With operations in more than 40 countries, our employees and cast members work together to create entertainment experiences that are both universally and locally cherished.

This position is with Pixar Inc., which is part of a business segment we call Pixar Animation Studios.

Pixar Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. Applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status. Disney fosters a business culture where ideas and decisions from all people help us grow, innovate, create the best stories and be relevant in a rapidly changing world.

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