Infrastructure Engineer, Forward Networks
$175-210k
2+ days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
Mathematically-accurate network modeling
Be an early applicant
Mathematically-accurate network modeling
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$175-210k
2+ days a week in office (Santa Clara, CA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To transform networks to be agile, predictable, and secure.
Role
Who you are
- Storage, Compute, Network, Cloud, or Application? If you said ‘Yes’, you may be the right fit
- Thirst for knowledge / desire to learn and grow
- Ability to effectively debug hard problems on a range of systems types
- Infrastructure Systems Experience: experience configuring, operating, and maintaining:
- Virtualization Hosts: (OpenShift/Kubernetes and VMware vCenter/ESX)
- DDI Systems (DNS, DHCP, IPAM)
- Network and security infrastructure (experience with routers/routing, switches/switching, and firewalls/network policy)
- Backup and disaster recovery systems
- Working knowledge of wireless networking and troubleshooting of them
- Comfort and working experience with CLI and Linux
- Understanding of application-relevant security concepts, including certificates, VPNs, and encryption
- Understanding of network connectivity concepts, including IP address allocation, tunneling, L2/L3 routing and switching, firewalls, and proxies (ideally, CCNA-level knowledge or better)
- 3-5 years of hands on experience with network equipment and servers
Desirable
- Scripting: Practical scripting and automation experience, including git, Bash, Python, Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes, REST APIs, etc
- Comfort working with AI tools / processes and effective prompting
- Cloud: Experience provisioning and using resources in AWS (or other clouds)
- File servers and NAS (disk and flash-based) - basic knowledge and understanding of storage is required but specific / detailed knowledge of a specific system or format is not required
- ISCSI knowledge
- Access and identity systems (SSO, LDAP, VPN, …)
What the job involves
- Forward Networks is looking for an experienced Infrastructure Engineer. As an Infrastructure Engineer, you will support the deployment, operation, and evolution of internal platforms and applications
- In this role, you'll have hands-on time with a wide breadth of systems and system types, going beyond just core “IT”, to frequent interactions with security and engineering teams. As we grow our infrastructure, (both on-prem and in-cloud), and grow the team, you’ll have ample opportunities to learn. Both Dev and Ops work is in scope
- Drive development work for physical systems, network devices, and virtual machines - to add new systems, replace existing ones, or integrate new functionality
- Drive operations for corporate systems: handle tier-two escalations, write runbooks, and do knowledge transfer to systems engineers on the team
- Implement corporate security policies into all systems
- Drive updates and patching
- Examples of potential job tasks:
- Move Jira to the Cloud
- Fix issues (provisioning, resource allocation, performance, etc) in Kubernetes, bonus for VMWare
- Generate and deploy certificates to a running app
- Change a system to use Okta auth via SAML
- Write and maintain inventory discovery and reconciliation scripts
- Writing a runbook
- Writing a high / low level design document
Our take
The rapid flow of data from inside and outside organisations has rendered top-down planning difficult, and often ineffective, especially in an enterprise network setting. Forward Networks provides a solution by creating digital twins of a company's network architecture so planners and developers can see how their activities will affect operations across the entire network.
Although digital twinning is relatively new, there is already intense competition for this space. Forward Networks has carved out a unique niche in focusing on enterprise networks rather than the organisation as a whole, a focus which is needed given the complexity of modern hybrid networks which can span several cloud environments.
In 2023, Forward Networks completed a Series D funding round led by MSD Partners, with participation from Goldman Sachs, one of its long-term customers. This investment has supported the business in further developing its product, expand the services available to its customers, and scaling its core team.
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Insights
95% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jan 2023
$50m
SERIES D
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES C
Total funding: $112.5m
Company benefits
- We’re an agile team and early-stage company with plenty of opportunities to grow, as a company and as individuals.
- Every team member receives a compensation package that includes equity, so we can grow together.
- We offer top-grade insurance, with medical, dental, and vision benefits for you and your family.
- Vacations, holidays, family days. With no tracked time off, you can go as long as it’s okay with your manager.
Company HQ
Santa Clara, CA
Leadership
David Erickson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, a Graduate Research Assistant at Stanford University and Member of Technical Staff at big switch networks.
Brandon Heller
(Co-Founder & CTO)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy. Prior to that, they interned at Google, Hewlett-Packard and Emerson Motor Company.
Nikhil Handigol
(Co-Founder & Chief AI Officer)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, as well as a Member of Technical Staff at ON.Lab and Research Assistant at Stanford University.
Peyman Kazemian
(Co-Founder)Was Director of Course Content and Instructor at SDN Academy, and a Researcher and Teaching Assistant at Stanford University. Also in terned at Google and Ericsson.
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