Lead Network Engineer

The Impact of a Sr Lead Network Reliability Engineer at Coupa: Coupa Software is a high-growth SaaS company and market leader in the BSM (Business Spend Management) space. We are in a major growth phase and wish to expand our Network Reliability Engineering team to help transform and scale our leading cloud platform. Joining the team as a Sr. Lead Network Development Engineer, will provide you the opportunity to make a huge impact and take your career to the next level. You will bring an automation-first approach to your day-to-day activities, architecting solutions for a massive-scale cloud networking infrastructure through code and have a strong sense of service ownership and accountability. You will be supported through in-house training and certification on our Coupa University platform and through subscriptions with leading learning partners. What You'll Do: - Design, deploy, automate and support network solutions in a massive-scale public cloud environment (AWS/Azure/GCP) - Experience with VM or container-based (Palo Alto Network Firewall, Fortinet, CheckPoint), and Cloud Native (AWS/Azure/GCP) Firewall solutions. - Have a comprehensive knowledge of networks and protocols, including TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, and TLS - Provide network support for Kubernetes platforms and workloads in major public cloud providers - Develop roadmaps using established public cloud design standards - Participate in design reviews and provide network support and leadership to the Engineering organization - Bring a development mindset in areas such as managing network infrastructure as code, elimination of toil and a strong sense of accountability and service ownership - Evaluate, specify, implement and support network performance, capacity and availability monitoring tools - Help to grow the global network function, onboarding new network development engineers and providing technical leadership and setting the team direction - Stay up to date with the latest developments in network infrastructure, networking with peers and attending industry events - Participate in an on-call rotation as required - Occasional travel as needed to perform the job function What You Will Bring to Coupa: - Has a degree in Computer Science or equivalent with 10+ years professional experience, some of which is in an enterprise SaaS organization - Is an expert in Firewall, VPN, DNS, BGP, and Public Cloud (AWS/Azure/GCP) network constructs (eg VPC, Hybrid routing, security groups, etc) - Experience managing and maintaining a production-facing Kubernetes environment - Is an expert in Kubernetes networking and CNI implementations. Direct experience supporting multiple CNIs is a plus. - Deep understanding of various Ingress or Gateway controller implementations, service discovery and DNS within a cluster, and NetworkPolicy functionality - Has operated in both data center and cloud environments - Experience managing and supporting multiple Linux distributions - Can code using Golang, Python, Java, Ruby or equivalent languages - Is familiar with deploying cloud network infrastructure using Terraform and CloudFormation or has experience with Chef, Ansible and/or Spacelift - Actively incorporates AI tools and methodologies to drive innovation and streamline workflows. - Proficiency in advanced network troubleshooting, including packet capture analysis and traffic flow diagnostics. - Is confident in their ability to own and deliver projects and issues to resolution - Has a passion for excellence, is a natural problem solver, and a critical thinker. - Has a solid understanding of networking systems and protocols, particularly as they pertain to a public cloud environment