This week we get better IXP monitoring 👓; optimise our SD-WAN for Starlink 🛰️; check in on the State of Network Automation ✅; wonder if BGP is safe yet 🤔; think like an AI 🤖; realise we don’t know how bad we are at being bad using a piano 🎹 and don’t just disconnect the whole Internet. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Better IX network quality monitoring is the
pingyou wished you had when you were doing Interweb peering, now available for you do do Interweb peering 🕸️Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN optimizations for Starlink makes WAN Optimisation sexy again; Steelhead, we barely missed ye 🦈
Transforming R&E Networks Through Automation: Q&A with Network to Code and Internet2 focuses on one tool and how it massages the NSoT in Internet2 itself 🛜
The State of Network Automation in 2024 is pretty good; pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty good 🧑🦲
Is BGP safe yet? helps you test your ISP’s conformance to best practices like RPKI and MANRS 🤲
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
Senior Manager Network Reliability Engineering @ Pfizer, Permie, USA, PA/WA/CT/FL
⭐️ Engineer GNOC Tools and Automation @ American Express, Permie, USA, AZ ⭐️
Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
Senior Data Center Engineer @ Target, Permie, USA, MN
Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
Senior Network Peering Engineer @ Disney, Permie, USA, TX/NC/NY/CA
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, USA, CA
Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
Staff Networking Engineer @ GitHub, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Engineer @ Robinhood, Permie, USA, Remote
Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
Principal Network Developer - Cluster Networking @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
System Development Engineer II @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN
Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
Network Automation Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
Distinguished Engineer NetDevOps @ Capital One, Permie, USA, VA
Network Engineer @ X (Twitter), Permie, USA/Singapore
Lead Technical Architect (Delivery) - Ciena Optical @ ePlus, Permie, $125k+, USA
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
Senior Network Engineer, Global Network Services @ Apple, Permie, $144k+, USA, CO
🇬🇧 🇮🇪 UK and Ireland
Network Engineer @ Google, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
⭐️ Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh ⭐️
Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
Network Engineer @ G-Research, Permie, UK, London
System Engineer NetDev @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK London/Portugal Lisbon
Infrastructure and Network Consultant @ McDonald’s, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
Network DevOps Engineer @ Swisscom, Permie, Switzerland, Zurich
⭐️ Network Architect @ Capgemini, Permie, Norway, Oslo ⭐️
Internship Network Automation in Open Industrial System @ ABB, Permie, Germany, Mannheim
DWDM Engineer @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Automation Tools Engineer @ Worldpay, Permie, Romania, Bucharest
Lead Network and Infrastructure Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
⭐️ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote ⭐️
NotEng 🤔
Thinking Like an AI is a case of you “when you can’t beat them, join them” in action 🤖
You don't know how bad most things are nor precisely how they're bad and a piano tuner can teach you more about DevOps than you might first have thought 🎹
North America added a whole Silicon Valley’s worth of data center inventory this year. It’s not enough because we need more, more, moar powerrrrrrrrrr ⚡️
Just disconnect the internet it’s not like you’re paying people to secure it or have it as a way of humanity sharing information or anything 👀
Fear of over-engineering has killed engineering altogether and story-points do not help at this point 📆
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
📢 Conferences
AutoCon 2, Denver, 18 - 22 November 2024
AI Networking Summit London, London, 10 December 2024
Cloudbrew 2024, Mechelen (Belgium), 12 - 13 December 2024
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Industry 🏭
World's first wooden satellite launched into space and you thought learning dovetail joints from Wood Tech class at school wasn’t going to be important 🪵
Visualize enterprise IP address management and planning with CIDR map is nice to get inspiration from even if you’re not using AWS IPAM to manage your IP Space 😎
How the Paris 2024 Summer Olympics has impacted Internet traffic is a fascinating postmortem of how the event changed IXP traffic across the world 🌎
Campus Switch Sales to Plummet in 2024. Here’s Why and it’s only partly due to more people working remotely 🏡
Buyer’s guide: How to shop for network observability tools is worth a read just to ensure you’re up-to-date with the newest in the o11y and NMS space 👓
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 💬.