SDN Network Specialist - Santander Digital Services

SDN Network Specialist - Santander Digital Services

Country: Spain

SANTANDER DIGITAL SERVICES is looking for a SDN NETWORK SPECIALIST, based in our Boadilla del Monte (Madrid) office.

WHY YOU SHOULD CONSIDER THIS OPPORTUNITY

At Santander we are key players in the transformation of the financial sector. Do you want to join us?

Santander Digital Services (SDS) is the team of technology and operations at Santander. We are convinced of the importance of technology that is aligned with the requirements of the business and that out work not only brings value to users, people and communities but also fosters individual creativity. Our team of over 7,000 people in 8 countries (Spain, Portugal, Poland, UK, USA, Mexico, Chile and Brazil) develops and/or implements financial solutions across a broad spectrum of technologies (including Blockchain, Big Data and Angular among others) on all kinds of on-premise and cloud-based platforms.

Santander is proud of being an organization where there are equal opportunities regardless of gender identity, culture and disability. Our mission is to contribute to help more people and business prosper. We embrace a strong risk culture and all of our professionals at all levels are expected to take a proactive and responsible approach toward risk management.

WHAT YOU WILL BE DOING

As an SDN Network Specialist you will build out, maintain, and troubleshoot our rapidly expanding infrastructure.

You will be part of a talented team that demonstrates daily superb technical competency, delivering mission critical infrastructure and ensuring the highest levels of availability, performance, and security.

We need somebody like you to help us in all these on-going challenges:

Manage and monitor all installed systems and infrastructure.

Install, configure, test and maintain the network infrastructure, DNS, Load balancer, switches, routers, also SDN elements like VMware NSX and different network management tools.

Perform network maintenance and system upgrades.

Proactively ensure the highest levels of network and infrastructure availability.

Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with Support & Engineering Teams to implement those fixes

Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks

Participate in the design of information and operational support systems

Provide 2nd and 3rd level support

Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution

Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure.

EXPERIENCE

5+ years’ experience as Network Specialist with main focus in switching and routing.

Specific experience in the financial sector is a plus.

EDUCATION

Education System Engineering or other relevant IT degree.

SKILLS & KNOWLEDGE

Proven hands-on network engineering experience

Deep knowledge of Arista/Cisco underlay switches.

Experience with SDN Products (e.g., NSX, CISCO ACI)

Deep understanding of networking protocols (e.g., Leaf & Spine Topology, IPSEC, HSRP, BGP, OSPF, 802.11, QoS, VXLAN, EVPN).

Solid understanding of the OSI or TCP/IP model.

Hands-on experience with monitoring, network diagnostic and network analytics tools. Monitoring Tools (Netscout, CA Spectum, VMware VRNI, Arista Cloud Vision Portal).

Load balancer – F5, AVI.

DNS - Infoblox, bind.

Public Cloud experience preferably in AWS and MS Azure is a plus.

Solid scripting skills (e.g., Shell scripts, Python, Power Shell,).

Cloud architectures (vCloud, Azure/AWS).

Automation (AVD, Ansible).

Experience in Agile Methodology and Tools (Kanban, JIRA, Confluence…).

OTRA INFORMACIÓN

Availability to perform punctual network maintenance work after hours.

Performing the On-Call support. Monthly rotation.

If you want to know more about us, visit our website:

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