Network Engineer, Security Service Edge

As the world's leading vendor of Cyber Security, facing the most sophisticated threats and attacks, we've assembled a global team of the most driven, creative, and innovative people. At Check Point, our employees are redefining the security landscape by meeting our customers' real-time needs and providing our cutting-edge technologies and services to an ever-growing customer base.

Check Point Software Technologies has been recognized by Forbes as one of the World's Best Places to Work four years in a row (2020-2023), ranking among the top 50 companies across the globe in the IT category. Check Point has also been named to Forbes' list of World's Top Female-Friendly Companies. If you want to make the world a safer place and join an award-winning company culture - you belong with us.

In this role, you will investigate complex production issues, improve our system resilience and monitoring coverage, support our customer-facing teams with complex technical investigations and implementations and automate methods and procedures to reduce workload and improve stability.

• Perform advanced troubleshooting of complex network problems and recurring platform issues
• Lead investigation and collaborate with other group experts to investigate complex cross-function production issues
• Design, build, and maintain core infrastructure that enables growth
• Maintain 100% Monitoring coverage, including building monitoring strategy that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages
• Reduce workload and improve uptime and SLA response time by implementing automation processes for production issues
• Act as the R&D extension in North America supporting production critical issues during North American business hours
• Support Account Managers and Customer Success team with complex implementations/strategic implementations

Required:

• Strong Experience with networking technologies and protocols (TCP/IP, LAN, NAT, BGP, VPN, DNS, iSCSI)
• Exceptional troubleshooting skills.
• Demonstrated autonomy, motivation, and self-management skills in the workplace
• Working experience with Linux system administration.
• Working experience with Bash, Python
• Working Experience with coding complex automation and runbooks

Preferred:

• Experience with observability and monitoring systems (Datadog, Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Experience in large-scale network and system engineering environments (ISP, Cloud Providers)
• Experience with AWS
• Experience with Configuration Management and IaC tools (Ansible, Terraform)
• Current or previous CCNP / CCNA / JNCIP Certification

Bonus!:

• Good familiarity with virtualization environments (Proxmox, OpenStack)
• Proficiency with virtualized and containerized environments (ECS / Kubernetes)
• Experience with Hashicorp tools (Consul, Vault, Nomad) - An advantage.
• AWS Certification (Solutions Architect , DevOps , etc)

Must be eligible to work in the United States without sponsorship now or in the future.

EOE M/F/Veterans/Disabled

The wage range for this position takes into consideration a variety of factors in determining your pay. We'll consider your location, experience, certifications, and other business and organizational needs. The wage disclosure has not been adjusted for applicable geographic differentials associated with the location at which this position may be filled. A reasonable estimate of the current base wage range for this role is $117,000-$153,000. In addition to the base compensation, certain roles are eligible for additional compensation, including an annual bonus or sales incentive based on revenue or utilization, depending on the terms of the plan and the employee's role. These awards are allocated based on individual performance. Benefits/perks listed here may vary depending on the nature of your employment with Check Point Software Technologies and the country/state where you work. US-based employees gain access to healthcare benefits, a 401(k) plan and company match, short-term and long-term disability coverage, basic life insurance, stock awards and an employee stock purchasing plan.