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OpenZiti as a Cloud LAN replacement to VPN; EVPN Host Routing; choosing a Startup to work at; Tech Vault interview questions and 21 Network Engineering jobs
This week we’ve got a 📕 book to get to grips with AWS Cloud; netcfgbu your Network Device backups 🥷; monitor your status with Gareth Gatus 🖥️; using OpenZiti as a Cloud LAN 🛜; deep-dives on packet forwarding architectures 🤿; LLM prompts of the year 🏆; climbing Engineering Ladders 🪜 and more. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
NetEng 🔧
netcfgbu Network Configuration Backup is a CLI tool to run around and backup your entire network in a NetBox-friendly way, grabbing the inventory at the same time 🕰️
Gatus is the automated status page that you deserve and is handy to monitor anything from your NMS to your OSS, Wonky Server or even Monitor the Monitor 👮
OpenZiti is like Zscaler for free or WireGuard on steroids, and is effectively a Cloud LAN for everything in your environment, even with packages for some IoT-like kit 📲
GitHub Actions as a time-sharing supercomputer is a different way of looking at
abusing the Linux VMs that GitHub Actions temporarily spins up for free to do your biding for you 🤔VXLAN/EVPN – Host routing tells us we still don’t know the difference between VTEPs or VXLANs, but we do know these ones begin with the letter “V” for “Very Technical” 🛜
A Model Of Packet-Forwarding Devices: The Model Series takes you on a journey of packetisation from TXring (no, not Token Ring) ASIC, FPGA, FIB, buffering and beyond to get the packet to your face 📩
Hiring 💼
Director of Product @ IP Fabric, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TX/TN/WA
⭐ IPU Software Product Manager Cloud and Networking @ Intel, Permie, $140k+, USA, TX/OR/CA/MA ⭐
Senior Technical Support Engineer @ Aryaka, India, Bengaluru
Principal Solutions Architect - Project Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, Australia, Sydney
Senior Engineer Network Automation @ Sony, Permie, $160k+, USA, TX/CA/MA/CO
Lead Network Automation Engineer @ Johnson & Johnson, Permie, Belgium, Antwerp
Network Automation Solutions Developer @ Nokia, Permie, $43k, India, Bengaluru
Senior Lead Network Engineer @ Under Armour, Permie, $143k+, USA (Remote)
Network Solutions Consultant @ Juniper, Permie, $102k+, USA (Remote)
Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, $158k+, USA, TX/CA/NJ
Network and NetDevOps Engineer @ Airbus, Permie, France, Marseille
NetDevOps Packet Architect / Principal Engineer @ Internet2, Permie, $145k, USA, Remote
Expert NetDevOps Engineer @ Veradigm, Permie, USA (Remote)
Principal Network Backbone and Edge Engineer @ Roblox, Permie, $283k+, USA, San Mateo CA
Technical Solutions Engineer - NetDevOps @ Arista, Permie, Ireland, Shannon
NetDevOps Team Lead @ FullCtl, Contract, Remote
Senior Principal Network Architect, Core Architecture @ Equinix, UK, London
Senior Network Services Architect @ Bloomberg, Permie, USA, New York NY
Network Development Lead @ AWS, Permie, UK, London
Network Automation Engineer @ IP Fabric, Permie, EU (Remote)
NotEng 🤔
How to Choose a Startup has useful advice for picking your next company, be that a Startup or a Big E, or even going it solo and making your own 🎤
Tech Vault is a list of interview questions and real-world challenges in Tech, worth parsing through before your next interview 💼
Prompt Of The Year gives useful AI LLM starter prompts in everything from Job Hunting, Essay Writing, Marketing, Music and… erm… {insert_prompt_here}? 🫣
Engineering Ladders is a framework for Engineering Managers to promote, evaluate and cultivate your staff against a goal-driven Career Ladder 🪜
Become a Command Line Ninja With These Time-Saving Shortcuts has some useful Windows and macOS shortcuts to help you save time (Windows + Shift + S is your friend for quick screenshots-to-clipboard buffer of an area of the screen you click and drag) ⎙
Events 📅
Palo Alto Ignite On Tour London, London, 30 March 2024
MPLS SD & AI Net World Congress, Paris, 9 - 11 April 2024
AWS Summit, London, 24 April 2024
DTX Manchester, Manchester, 22 - 23 May 2024
AutoCon 1, Amsterdam, 27 - 31 May 2024
InfoSec Europe, London, 4 - 6 June 2024
Industry 🏭
NetBox Labs Announces NetBox Enterprise: Enterprise-Grade, Fully Supported Self-Managed NetBox Offering finally brings all the advantages of NetBox with the safety wrap of support to remove all the excuses for your company going all in on NetBox ♠️
OpenWrt, now 20 years old, is crafting its own future-proof reference hardware and while we’ll glad OpenWrt is still going, we always preferred Tomato for our open source home router hacking 🍅
Building streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud takes you through concepts like ETL, Event-based Processing, Ingest and Data Warehousing with a GCP slant ☁️
Breaking Analysis: Enterprise technology predictions 2024 makes some interesting predictions for the year ahead, you’ll be unsurprAIsed to see those two letters make an appearance too 🤖
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 💬.