Staff Network Engineer

Company Description
It all started in sunny San Diego, California in 2004 when a visionary engineer, Fred Luddy, saw the potential to transform how we work. Fast forward to today - ServiceNow stands as a global market leader, bringing innovative AI-enhanced technology to over 8,100 customers, including 85% of the Fortune 500®. Our intelligent cloud-based platform seamlessly connects people, systems, and processes to empower organizations to find smarter, faster, and better ways to work. But this is just the beginning of our journey. Join us as we pursue our purpose to make the world work better for everyone.
Job Description
Note: This position requires Australian Baseline Security Clearance. If offered employment, you must be willing to complete and successfully pass the adjudication process. Australian citizens currently residing in Australia will be considered.
What you get to do in this role

• Design and deploy networks based on business and technical requirements.
• Partner with project and program managers to meet overall timelines and resolution of issues.
• Operate and troubleshoot networks to identify and resolve issues quickly.
• Take a lead role in the engagement and mitigation of outage causing events or issues.
• Validate problem descriptions and perform detailed problem diagnosis; track and update problems in trouble-ticketing system.
• Perform non-critical investigations into functionality that is not working as desired.
• Engage deeply in the sustainment function to proactively analyze network parameters such as capacity and availability to ensure issues are fixed before they cause an outage.
• Review, consult and prepare for planned change introduction to production environment.
• Participate in rotating "on call" schedule with other members of the team including weekends.
• Partner with teams to plan and execute software code upgrades and device maintenance.
• Partner with the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team to provide mentorship and input on operational process improvements.
• Provide feedback to infrastructure architects on design issues or improvements and input into the design process for new initiatives.

Qualifications
To be successful in this role you have

• Experience in leveraging or critically thinking about how to integrate AI into work processes, decision-making, or problem-solving. This may include using AI-powered tools, automating workflows, analyzing AI-driven insights, or exploring AI's potential impact on the function or industry.
• Solid foundation in networking including routing, switching, security and load balancing.
• 2+ years of experience with cloud computing technologies (e.g. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) across Windows and/or Linux
• Azure Web Apps: developing, deploying, debugging and supporting web applications using .NET, Java, PHP, Python, Node.js etc. on Windows or Linux.
• Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment (CI/CD): using DevOps, Bit Bucket, GitHub.
• Experience in one or more automation languages (PowerShell, shell scripts, Perl, Python, Ansible, Terraform) desired.
• A minimum of 5 years of experience in working on Internet and data center networks.
• Solid understanding of and have experience with most of the following network technologies: BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, HSRP/VRRP, IPSEC, SNMP.
• Deep, hands-on experience with TCP/IP protocols including capturing and analyzing traffic with Wireshark and/or other tools.
• Familiarity with Cisco IOS and JunOS operating systems required.
• F5 and Cisco ASA knowledge and experience strongly desired.
• Experience with network monitoring applications such as EMC Watch4Net, Cacti, Splunk is a plus.
• Ability to partner with peers who are globally distributed is a key part of this role.
• Passion for customer experiences and focus on delivering high quality support.
• Strong communication skills and empathy for customers.
• Ability to learn new technology in a fast-paced environment.
• Ability to deal with ambiguity.

Additional Information
Work Personas
We approach our distributed world of work with flexibility and trust. Work personas (flexible, remote, or required in office) are categories that are assigned to ServiceNow employees depending on the nature of their work and their assigned work location. Learn more here . To determine eligibility for a work persona, ServiceNow may confirm the distance between your primary residence and the closest ServiceNow office using a third-party service.
Equal Opportunity Employer
ServiceNow is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin or nationality, ancestry, age, disability, gender identity or expression, marital status, veteran status, or any other category protected by law. In addition, all qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with legal requirements.
Accommodations
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Export Control Regulations
For positions requiring access to controlled technology subject to export control regulations, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations (EAR), ServiceNow may be required to obtain export control approval from government authorities for certain individuals. All employment is contingent upon ServiceNow obtaining any export license or other approval that may be required by relevant export control authorities.
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