Zurich, Zurich, CH

Senior Network Engineer (80 - 100%)

About Swiss Re
 

Swiss Re is one of the world’s leading providers of reinsurance, insurance and other forms of insurance-based risk transfer, working to make the world more resilient. We anticipate and manage a wide variety of risks, from natural catastrophes and climate change to cybercrime.

At Swiss Re we combine experience with creative thinking and cutting-edge expertise to create new opportunities and solutions for our clients. This is possible thanks to the collaboration of more than 13,000 employees across the world.

We offer a flexible working environment where curious and adaptable people thrive. Are you interested in joining us?

About the Role

We are looking for a Senior Network Engineerwhoacts as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) for our global network footprint. The role needs a strong understanding of network technologies which can help build positive cross-functional team dynamics and ensure outsourcing partner(s) develop, validate & implement the solutions by complying to Swiss Re standards. You are also at ease while working with Governance & Audit teams for any regulatory requirements for services in your scope.

The successful candidate will also support the existing Engineering team in their daily work and take over the responsibility in Service Design and Transition to deliver a constantly improving, cost efficient and highly available service.

About You

Attitude:

• Passion for engineering and learning something new every day


• Taking end-to-end ownership and responsibility


• Collaborative, team focus and great communication skills


• Working independently and self-managed in a global team


• Pro-active, forward looking mind set; "doer" mentality and is easy to interact with.


• Process oriented mindset (engineering process)


• Advocate and evangelize for best practices like automated testing, continuous integration (CI), automation, documentation etc.


• Comfortable to speak and present at meetings and write blogs


• Familiarity with Agile and/or Lean approaches is a clear plus

Formal / Technical Skills:

• Strong stakeholder management skills for representing network services to other business units, negotiating contracts with providers and lead Governance topics.


• Strong analytical, problem solving and troubleshooting skills relating to networking and security implementations


• Ability to carry out detailed network and security analysis (troubleshooting, developing optimization proposals etc.)


• Methodical and systematic approach towards gathering requirements, designing solutions, documentation and communication; ability to assess the marketplace (understand what is out there); ability to translate requirements into solutions


• Ability to design high availability networking concepts and techniques i.e. Load Balancing, Clustering, Failover, diverse connectivity scenarios

Network technologies:

• Strong understanding of SD-WAN/LAN/WAN technologies and Connectivity (MPLS/Internet)


• Knowledge, deep understanding and experience of Network Security technologies (Firewalls, Proxies, Internet protocols like HTTPs, WSS)


• Extensive knowledge of Cisco technologies (routing/switching/wireless)


• Familiarity with NPM (network performance management) and APM (application performance management) disciplines


• Deep understanding of BGP routing and VPN (site to site, overlay networking) with emphasis on Cloud connectivity


• Experience working with network monitoring and troubleshooting tools e.g Solarwinds, Wireshark


• Scripting/Programming know-how such as PowerShell, Perl/Python, Bash/Shell


• Proven experience in Windows and or Linux operating systems

• Automation tooling knowledge is a plus

Language Skills:

• English


• Any German dialect (desirable)

We are an equal opportunity employer, and we value diversity at our company. Our aim is to live visible and invisible diversity – diversity of age, race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, physical abilities, personalities and experiences – at all levels and in all functions and regions. We also collaborate in a flexible working environment, providing you with a compelling degree of autonomy to decide how, when and where to carry out your tasks.

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