This week we use Segment Routing for Traffic Engineering 🚦; Trippy for visual traceroute and GeoIP mapping 🗺️; configuring NSX for IaC for zero touch 🧤 success; getting sample Use Cases for popular NetDevOps tooling ⚒️; following you curious nose if you get 🥱; more AI hype train and jobs galore 💼. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
Segment Routing Traffic Engineering - Explicit Path with Labels (English) (20 mins) dives deep onto SR, PCEP and related ideas about the MPLS successor 🥋
Trippy combines the functionality of traceroute and ping and is designed to assist with the analysis of networking issues and it looks good on an the ASCII terminal while it does so 😎
Infrastructure as a Code - Configuring Tier-0 Gateway HA VIP using Terraform does what it says and takes you into the world of VMware NSX-T from an IaC Terraform perspective 🔏
Intro to Network Automation with Python and Netmiko eases you into a simple EVE-NG use case to get started with Network Automation 🎬
Virtual Wan Traffic Flow Patterns guides you through various Azure Landing Zone and Hub-and-Spoke Network topologies alongside their pros and cons ✅
Hiring 💼
⭐️ Senior Network Engineer @ Warner Bros Discovery, Permie, UK, London ⭐️
Network Software Engineer @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
Network Systems Engineer (Pre-Sales) @ Arista, Permie, Germany
Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote
⭐️ Network DevOps Engineer @ Ocado Technology, Permie, UK, Hatfield ⭐️
Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, Boston MA
Research Manager Network Programmability @ BT Group, UK, Bristol
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Product Support Engineer Tier 3 @ Cato Networks, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
Network Development Engineer I @ AWS, Permie, India, Bangalore
Network Reliability Manager @ CME Group, Permie, UK, London
NetDevOps Observability Engineer @ Citi, Permie, USA, TX
Senior Network Engineer @ Warner Bros, Permie, UK, London
Staff Network Security Engineer @ Servicenow, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Net DevOps Engineer @ DriveWealth, Permie, $160k+, USA, Remote
Director, Network Solutions, Design & Engineering @ LSEG, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer II @ Booking.com, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+,USA
Solutions Architect - Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Engineer, Deployment & Support @ Meta, Permie, Singapore
Network DevOps Engineer @ SAP, Permie, Hungary, Budapest
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
Global Network Engineer @ Patagonia, Permie, $114k+, USA, CA
Senior Network Control Plane Engineer @ Hedgehog, Permie, USA, CA/WA
Software Development Engineer, Network Automation @ ByteDance, Permie, $187k+, USA, CA
Network Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Automation Engineer - Infrastructure Services @ CGI, Permie, Netherlands, Rotterdam
Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
Senior Network Engineer - NetDevOps @ Kunai, Permie, USA, TX/VA
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
Follow Curiosity if you’re unsure of which career path to go down, job application to take or even app to code 💡
AI isn't useless. But is it worth it? Is it coming for your job? Is it time to jailbreak that prompt? Find out… 🤔
Good Ideas in Computer Science goes through them all, from the 1500s to modern day in a timeline older than you might believe 🧚♂️
Corporate Open Source is Dead apparently, but like everything in this space, what FOSS is today will just continue and change in the future 💀
The Power of Storytelling is undervalued in modern day Engineering, but shouldn’t be underestimated if you want to engage, influence and achieve 💪
Events 📅
NetApp Insight, Las Vegas, 23 - 25 September 2024
Public Sector Cloud and AI Conference, Edinburgh, 24 September 2024
Network X, Paris, 8 - 10 October 2024
NANOG 92, Toronto, 21 - 23 October 2024
ONUG AI Networking Summit, New York, 23 - 24 October 2024
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
Industry 🏭
Forwarding over 100 Mpps with FD.io VPP on x86 makes Google Cloud look kind of impressive 🧐
5 Levels of Network Automation Maturity takes you from initial orchestration dabbling through to full-fledged NetDevOps’ification of your deployment pipeline 🚀
Walmart scales stupendous global network on open source to keep the grocery giant going it’s FOSS at the till, not COTS 🏪
Microsoft plans to lock down Windows DNS like never before. Here’s how the
hostsfile finally comes of age 👵Microsoft Services Now ‘Operating Normally’ On AT&T Networks After Outage but we could easily have cycled this headline for weeks and you’d never know 💎
That’s all for this week, but if you have any tip-offs, blogs, events or job posts you’d like us to feature then please feel free to let us know at newsletter@reloadin.net 📮 and we’ll see if we can add them in 💬.