Network Engineer – Mid-level

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Brazil.

📋 Description

• Participate in defining, evolving, and maintaining RNP's network architecture, working collaboratively on the analysis, design, deployment, and documentation of high-capacity connectivity solutions for metropolitan networks, backbone networks, and national information highways.

• Assist with technical standardization, ensure integration across network domains, promote the adoption of best practices in routing and IP/MPLS, and troubleshoot medium-complexity incidents, thereby guaranteeing high availability, scalability, and operational excellence of the infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• A bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Software Engineering, Telecommunications Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Computer Networks, or other related technology or telecommunications disciplines.

• Hands-on experience in the engineering, operation, deployment, or maintenance of IP networks, ideally in backbone environments, metropolitan networks, academic networks, carriers, connectivity providers, data centers, or medium- to large-scale corporate settings.

• Professional experience aligned with a mid-level position, showcasing the ability to independently handle medium-complexity tasks, collaborate with various technical teams, analyze network issues, propose solutions, and document architectures, procedures, and technical standards.

• Experience with network equipment such as routers and switches utilizing command-line interfaces, analyzing configurations, interpreting logs, conducting connectivity tests, and supporting incident resolution.

• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, encompassing IPv4 and IPv6 addressing, routing, switching, and connectivity troubleshooting.

• Practical knowledge of routing protocols, particularly BGP and OSPF, including neighbor concepts, route announcements, filters, routing policies, redistribution, summarization, route preference, and routing table analysis.

• Familiarity with IP/MPLS concepts, including labels, LSPs, traffic transport over an MPLS backbone, and logical service separation.

• Understanding of services operating over IP/MPLS or backbone networks, such as L2VPN, L3VPN, EVPN, network interconnection, IP peering, and IP transit.

• Insight into metropolitan network architecture, including the interconnection of points of presence, traffic aggregation, redundancy, high availability, capacity planning, service segmentation, and integration with access networks or partner networks.

• Awareness of national backbone and information-highway principles, including resilience, geographic redundancy, path diversity, scalability, traffic capacity, connectivity patterns, and inter-domain integration.

• Experience in configuring and operating network devices (routers, switches, firewalls, etc.) from manufacturers like Cisco, Huawei, Juniper, and Nokia.

• Familiarity with services that facilitate network operation, particularly DNS, web servers, RADIUS, and TACACS+.

• Hands-on experience with Linux, including command-line usage, permissions, services, logs, processes, networking on Linux systems, connectivity testing, and basic to intermediate troubleshooting.

• Capability to create and maintain technical documentation, operational procedures, diagrams, implementation records, configuration standards, and support materials for operation and deployment.

• Proficient in technical English for reading documentation, troubleshooting, and basic technical writing.

🏝️ Benefits

• Meal allowance or meal voucher

• Wellhub (Gympass)

• Access to a digital library platform featuring over 30,000 titles, including newspapers, magazines, and e-books

• Life insurance

• Health plan providing nationwide coverage with private-room hospitalization (no employee contribution)

• Dental plan (no employee contribution)

• Vaccine reimbursement for you and dependents — for vaccines not provided by public health clinics (reimbursement)

• Childcare assistance for children up to 5 years and 11 months, covering up to 70% of the current minimum wage (reimbursement)

• Home office allowance

• Partnership with SESC