Sr Network Engineer

Newfold Digital is a leading web technology company serving nearly seven million customers globally. Established in 2021 through the combination of leading web services providers Endurance Web Presence and Group, our portfolio of brands includes: Bluehost, Big Rock, Reseller Club, Crazy Domains, HostGator, Network Solutions, , and many others. We help customers of all sizes build a digital presence that delivers results. With our extensive product offerings and personalized support, we take pride in collaborating with our customers to serve their online presence needs.

As a leading provider of online services to small businesses, Newfold Digital serves millions of customers. The company offers an array of products and services, including web hosting, domain registration, SSL certificates, online marketing tools, email services, site optimization services, and more

We enable small and medium sized businesses to build, promote, manage, and profit from their websites. Valuing integrity, creativity, and initiative.  Newfold Digital takes pride in optimal customer satisfaction. We guarantee that a Newfold Digital customer will experience easy-to-use, self-guided tools; high-impact applications and services, and a reliable platform with round-the-clock support.

The role

As a Network Engineer specializing in security, you will be supporting and building a world-class network architecture spanning multiple datacenters and providing hosting services throughout the world. Industry best security practices should be followed while building and maintaining these networks.  As part of the Network Engineering team, you will be responsible for:

• Work with firewall and segmentation platforms to secure the network from external and internal attacks.
• Work across teams to identify potentially sensitive areas of the network that should be segmented from the rest of the network and propose solutions to implement this segmentation.
• Participate in network engineering development from idea to plan, design and integration for the relevant network environments to meet stakeholder requirements
• Provide troubleshooting assistance/escalation to support teams, as needed, for critical production issues and incident management and reporting. 
• Be able to quickly troubleshoot networking and security problems and find solutions to resolve them under pressure
• Urgently analyze and troubleshoot issues impacting production.
• Work with technology operations tools to develop trending analyses and eliminate recurring incidents

A Candidate Must

• Be fluent in speaking, writing, and reading English
• Have at least 5 years of data center networking and security experience
• Have a Cisco CCNP, Juniper JNCIS, or equivalent experience and capabilities
• Understanding IP protocols at all layers of the Networking stack
• Have extensive experience with Palo Alto and/or Fortinet firewall products
• Have Expertise in routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, and ISIS
• Have proficiency on VLANs, STP, SPAN, Inter VLAN routing and advanced switching concepts
• Have in-depth knowledge of DHCP, NTP, HSRP, VRRP, ARP, NAT, ACL, PBR, GRE, IPsec, Remote Access VPN, and DMVPN
• Have a good understanding and experience methods of implementing network security, firewalls, DDoS issues, and intrusion detection
• Have experience on UNIX/Linux systems and an understanding of how to debug network issues as they relate to those systems.
• Be willing to participate in on call rotation
• Ability to impact operations and effect change without being confrontational, highly self-motivated and capable of working under pressure.
• Demonstrated analytical and problem-solving skills, detail oriented.
• Be able to plan, execute, document projects without large amount of supervision

Skills or Capabilities that are desired, but not necessarily required:

• Have experience with EVPN and/or VXLAN on Arista and or Juniper Networking Products
• Experience with public cloud networking.  GCP, AWS, Azure, OCI
• Experience with Ansible for management of routers and switches
• Experience with Python or similar scripting languages

Why you'll love us.

• We've evolved: We provide three work environment scenarios. You can feel like a Newfolder in a work-from-home, hybrid, or work-from-the-office environment. 

• Work-life balance: Our work is thrilling and meaningful, but we know balance is key to living well. 
• We celebrate one another's differences: We're proud of our culture of diversity and inclusion. We foster a culture of belonging. Our company and customers benefit when employees bring their authentic selves to work. We have programs that bring us together on important issues and provide learning and development opportunities for all employees.  We have 20+ affinity groups where you can network and connect with Newfolders globally.  

 
• We care about you : At Newfold, taking care of our employees is our top priority. We make sure that cutting edge benefits are in place for you. Some of the benefits you will have: We have partnered with some of the best insurance providers to provide you excellent Health Insurance options, Education/ Certification Sponsorships to give you a chance to further your knowledge, Flexi-leaves to take personal time off and much more. Building a community one domain at a time, one employee at a time. All our employees are eligible for a free domain and WordPress blog as we sponsor the domain registration costs.

• Where can we take you? We're fans of helping our employees learn different aspects of the business, be challenged with new tasks, be mentored, and grow their careers. Unfold new possibilities with #teamnewfold  

This Job Description includes the essential job functions required to perform the job described above, as well as additional duties and responsibilities. This Job Description is not an exhaustive list of all functions that the employee performing this job may be required to perform. The Company reserves the right to revise the Job Description at any time, and to require the employee to perform functions in addition to those listed above.