Senior Network Engineer Dallas Austin Houston

About The Engineering Team

Establish a worldclass handson team that applies innovative technology solutions to drive scale and attack opportunities with the greatest commercial impact

Sixth Street Engineering is dedicated to applying technology to private and public market investments in a unique and progressive way. Our Engineers enjoy startupstyle responsibilities with businessimpacting potential an experienced leadership team and the broad resources of Sixth Street a $100B AUM investment firm. We are committed to hiring exceptional people with diverse experiences and backgrounds.

The Role

Sixth Streets Workplace Technology team is looking for a talented Senior Network Engineer interested in growing their career in a small fastmoving technical team with big goals. The successful candidate will need to be comfortable leading on multiple fronts at a time: building our physical office network infrastructure scaling our network monitoring capabilities worldwide troubleshooting network issues on our various endpoints and working with vendors and key stakeholders to keep our network costs under control. Candidates for this role are required to be highly organized communicative and confident in their context switching capabilities.

We value the ability to focus and deeply engage on networkrelated topics. Being a thought leader and playing an architectlevel role on network questions will be expected while also operating our physical network on a daytoday basis. When things get challenging a successful Senior Network Engineer at Sixth Street will collaborate with the entire Infrastructure and Cybersecurity teams and will display leadership with all individual contributors involved in Sixth Streets network components and software dependencies.

This is a fulltime role based in one of Sixth Streets offices in the United States. The Senior Network Engineer role is part of our Workplace Technology team at Sixth Street which is a nimble technical team part of the broader Infrastructure Engineering team. In this role you will have opportunities to work closely with inhouse technologists on software development teams collaborate with your peers on the Infrastructure team interact with external vendors as well as end users. You will be expected to contribute to Sixth Street Engineerings longterm technology vision that drives our infrastructure.

Core Responsibilities

• Demonstrates strong network architecture experience. At Sixth Street we dont just talk about our infrastructure. We strive to have folks who will bring in a vast amount of experience which will let them get deeply involved in the architecture implementation and operations of our networks. Ideal candidates come with their specialties but enjoy venturing out of their comfort zones.
• Is accountable for our physical office networks. Sixth Street has deployed independent Cisco Merakibased physical networks in its various offices all over the world. These mission critical networks require constant management performance monitoring patching and timely responses when issues are reported. Our offices are where the magic happens: downtime affecting our investment teams is never an option and we constantly aim for 100 uptime.
• Virtual Private Networks and Zero Trust. Sixth Street has deployed VPN and Zero Trust solutions to allow its software developers and users to access private applications in our cloud environment. In collaboration with our Cybersecurity team the Senior Network Engineer will be expected to assist with networklevel troubleshooting when issues are reported both on the physical network as well as on endpoints.
• Collaborates and interacts with all Engineering teams. Sixth Street Engineering team members document build share train and collaborate to get things done. The Senior Network Engineer will be expected to build relationships across the entire Engineering organization and work closely with other teams to investigate diagnose and resolve problems that may have a network implication. In several cases you will need to demonstrate leadership capabilities by driving investigations from the beginning to the end and communicating outcomes to leadership.

What We Value

• Commitment to applying modern engineering concepts in target environments: automate express everything as code cultivate a culture of collaboration across different domains develop iteratively build strong monitoring and observability capabilities
• Resultoriented commercial and focused on what matters
• Team orientation and influencing skills
• High trust and integrity
• Entrepreneurial and ownership mindset
• Strong combination of organizational and interpersonal/communication skills

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Proven expertlevel experience with the Cisco Meraki ecosystem (firewalls switches access points cloudbased control plane SFPs monitoring capabilities)
• Vendor management in the network space:
  • Management of network cabling vendors involved in the buildout and upgrades of our offices
  • Management of internet circuits vendors in all Sixth Street offices including deployment of new circuits upgrades of existing ones and troubleshooting when required
  • Network service providers when required for installation and upgrade of the firms equipment
• Familiarity with public cloud networking (virtual network appliance VPCs security groups routing direct connects sitetosite VPNs bastion hosts DMZ)
• Strong knowledge of fundamental network concepts such as:
  • Physical layer: Cabling Ethernet Wifi Access Points Switching
  • IP connectivity routing firewalling
  • DNS both for internal and external networks
  • Transport level protocols applicationslevel services
  • Network security concepts
  • Telecom Closet Standards
• Design and planning BCP/DR testing of all office infrastructure
• Primary contact for all networkrelated issues either physical or endpoints and experienced at troubleshooting to identify root cause
• Highly motivated entrepreneurial selfmanaged and teamoriented candidates with strong problemsolving skills
• At least ten years of proven experience in Network Engineering. Relevant degree is preferred but not strictly required
• Experienced at communicating tasks status and risks to leadership and key stakeholders
• Expert in the design and implementation of new physical networks based on clear requirements such as user count and SLAs
• Understanding of modern application architectures: Platform as a Service SaaS microservices as well as application architectures based on the REST API
• Familiarity with the Linux ecosystem and toolset: Debian and/or Red Hat derivatives networking tools network subsystems and services fluency at leveraging the Linux command line interface and scripts for automation purposes
• Familiarity with the Microsoft/macOS ecosystem and toolset: Windows/macOS operating system and related networking tools Active Directory
• Awareness of Workplace Technology functions such as physical/virtual desktops central device management capabilities enduser device monitoring
• Handson experience with common IT management and communication tools like Jira and Confluence
• Comfortable with remote work using tools such as Outlook Zoom Slack and Box
• Possesses a strong sense of urgency and prioritization; ability to execute critical tasks quickly and efficiently with strong attention to details when required
• Comfortable with keeping track of multiple parallel projectsand keeping stakeholders informed of progress on a regular basis
• Strong verbal and written communication abilities
• Passionate about expanding into modern topics such as public cloud networking device configuration using InfrastructureasCode and config management tools cost monitoring and control identity management change control and testing using CI/CD pipelines virtual networking.
• Create and maintain documentation and team runbooks
• Available for after hours and weekend support if needed for changes and incidents
• Available to travel about 20 of the time

About Sixth Street

Founded in 2009 Sixth Street is a leading global investment firm dedicated to developing themes and offering solutions to companies across all stages of growth.

Our firm is designed for crossplatform collaboration at scale: we build businesses invest for growth acquire assets provide direct financing identify value in public markets purchase royalty streams and regularly develop firstoftheirkind structures to meet the strategic objectives of management teams.

We do all this globally and as one unified team of investment and controlside professionals working on behalf of our institutional investors and their beneficiaries around the world.

We believe adhering to our core values is a competitive advantage. Everyone on our team contributes their perspectives and expertise to help us solve complex challenges and get to the right answer. At Sixth Street the best idea wins.

For more information visit the Sixth Street Careers site or follow us on LinkedIn.

Sixth Street is proud to be an Equal Opportunity employer. We do not discriminate based upon race religion color national origin genetic history marital status gender (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age veteran or military status disability genetic predisposition status as a victim of domestic violence a sex offense or stalking or any other class or status in accordance with applicable federal state and local laws.

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