Site Reliability Engineer

Position Title: Site Reliability Engineer, Interconnection Service and Network Delivery

Location: Hybrid: Austin, Dallas, Boston, Ashburn, Atlanta, London, or Amsterdam

Your role 

In this role, you will be responsible for deploying and maintaining all Digital Realty interconnection fabric network infrastructure. The ideal candidate can demonstrate a unique blend of network engineering, network operations, and software understanding through the application of engineering principals. You will focus on delivering operational discipline and embrace key operational principals including automation, agile development, and scripting.

What you’ll do 

You will be part of the global Fabric Engineering organization and work in tandem with other teams to build and maintain a global network infrastructure. Ideal candidates for this role will bring an understanding carrier class network infrastructure as well as experience working in a fast-paced development environment.

What you’ll need 

• 5+ years of operations and engineering experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or equivalent) preferred

• Strong experience with automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, etc)

• Strong experience working with Linux systems and tools

• Experience with Python (or equivalent high-level language)

• Experience software development tools (Github, Jenkins, etc) and software development practices

• Experience with any of the Hyperscale cloud platforms such as Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud is an advantage.

• Experience configuring monitoring, responding to alerts, and addressing the underlying issues to eliminate toil

• Must participate in a 24x7x365 on-call rotation

• Familiarity with Layer 3 routing protocols (BGP, IS-IS, OSPF), MPLS technologies, and Layer 2 switching protocols (802.1Q VLAN tagging, Spanning Tree Protocol).

• Familiarity with virtual networking concepts such as L2VPN, EVPN, Open vSwitch, and VXLAN preferred

• Ability to understand high-level network design and its impacts across the infrastructure

• Ability to work independently on complex and unique service provider engineering projects

• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills

• Strong communication skills

A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 25+ countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter.

Our IT team is at the heart of our business. We develop infrastructures, design and build networks, support servers and provide the first line of support by delivering rich connectivity for our customers. With new data centers coming online all the time, it’s a rapidly changing technical environment so our team is always ready to innovate and take the lead on projects. We constantly develop, deploy and support vital networks and data services that drive business performance and improve life for customers around the globe.

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing needs of our global customers. 

Join us and you’ll be part of a supportive and inclusive environment where you can bring your whole self to work. As part of our team, you’ll get to work with people from different business areas, challenge the way we do things and put your ideas into action. We’ll also give you plenty of development opportunities so you can build a rewarding and successful career with us. 

Apply today, take charge of your career and grow your talents with us.

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Our Compensation Philosophy

Digital Realty offers its employees a highly competitive compensation package, excellent benefits, and an environment that recognizes and rewards your contributions. Central to our compensation philosophy is rewarding our employees for achieving the values and objectives aligned to the company's overall goals and values.