This week we explore GCP networking enhancements for AI 🤖; see Cloud Provider latency on an interactive map 🗺️; understand round-robin DNS in detail 🐦; see the problem with Network Automation certs 🔖; take a selfie of our self from space networks 🛰️; use invisible text in AI that humans can’t see 👀 and learn about new DNS record types you didn’t know about 🎙️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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Exploring Google Cloud networking enhancements for generative AI applications is worth a read to remind yourself that AI for Networking is not the same as Networking with AI 🤖
Kentik Cloud Latency Map shows you real-world latency (ping) measurements between differing Cloud Providers global regions and has some pretty unexpected results 🚝
Understanding Round Robin DNS dives deep into how you might load balance across DNS in practice, including alternative techniques to Anycast ⚖️
The Problem With Network Automation Certifications hits the nail on the head; learning the verbs and nouns won’t help as much as being able to tell a decent story with them 🎶
Ansible with Cisco - Part 1 Installation and basic set-up is part of a series covering Ansible as a platform, detailed use cases and real-world usage to get you up and running with the infamous Automation platform ⚙️
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇺🇸 Network Analyst II @ Honeywell, Permie, USA, MO
🇺🇸 Network Architect (ML Systems) @ SambaNova, Permie, USA, TX/CA/Remote
🇺🇸 Network Operations Engineer @ Okta, Permie, USA, Remote
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
🇺🇸 Network Solutions Engineer @ Eli Lilly, Permie, USA, IN
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Cloud Network Engineer II @ Microsoft, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇨🇦 Network Test and Python Development Engineer @ Broadcom, Permie, Canada, Richmond
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Operations and Development Engineer @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Dev Engineer, Kuiper @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
⭐️ Solution Architect @ IP Fabric, Permie, USA, MA ⭐️
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network System Researcher @ Nokia, Permie, USA, Remote
🇺🇸 IT Network Administrator @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Dev Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, TN/TX
🇨🇦 Technical Expert - Data Center Network @ Huawei, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 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 and Security Architect @ Manchester Metropolitan University, Contract, UK, Manchester
⭐️ Network TDA Team Lead @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh ⭐️
🇬🇧 Principal Network Engineer @ Wolters Kluwer, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Architect @ MNB Networks, Permie, UK, Edinburgh
🇬🇧 Associate Network Engineer @ Goldman Sachs, Permie, UK, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇬🇧 Platform Infrastructure Lead (Networks) @ John Lewis, Permie, London
🇪🇸 Senior Staff Deployment Engineer SASE @ Netskope, Permie, Spain, Madrid
🇧🇪 🇬🇧 🇮🇪Lead Platform Network Engineer @ Mastercard, Permie, Belgium / Dublin / London
🇩🇪 Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇨🇭 DevOps Engineer Network Security @ Swisscom, Permie, Switzerland, Zurich
🇪🇸 Network Automation Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Spain, Hybrid
🇩🇪 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
🇨🇿 Network Support Engineer @ Cato Networks, Permie, Czech Republic, Prague
🌎 Rest of World
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇮🇳 Network IT Asset Management Engineer @ State Street, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 HPC Network Software Engineer @ HPE, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇵🇭 Senior Engineer Network and Security @ Travel+Leisure, Permie, Philippines
🇮🇳 Senior Engineer Network Observability @ Micron, Permie, India, Hyderabad
🇸🇬 Network Engineer @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Automation Developer @ FIS, Permie, India, Various
🇮🇳 Senior NetDevOps Software Developer @ United, Permie, India, Gurugram
🇦🇺 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, Australia, Sydney
🇸🇬 Network Development Reliability Engineer @ Shopee, Permie, Singapore
🇮🇳 Network BackEnd Developer @ IBM, Permie, India, Bangalore
🇸🇬 Senior Manager Automation and Autonomous Network @ Singtel, Permie, Singapore
⭐️ Software and Network Engineer @ Inter.link, Permie, Remote ⭐️
NotEng 🤔
Man creates his own satellite to take space selfies with Earth but doesn’t share enough details on the radio downlink protocols that get your selfie back to you already 🤔
Hiring in tech is harder than ever. AI isn’t helping but you don’t really need us to tell you that if you’ve done an AI-terview for a job recently 🧳
Stanford University offers free online courses in everything from Computer Science 101, Intro to Artifical Intelligence, Introduction to Python Programming and even Designing Your Career - check these out 👈
Invisible text that AI chatbots understand and humans can’t? Yep, it’s a thing similar to white text on a white background in interviews telling GPT to hire you, only more ASCII-vs-Unicode like in complexity 🧮
Why Innovation Heroes are a Sign of a Dysfunctional Organization used to be something we called “Hero Culture” and quickly sucks if you’re the hero involved 🦸
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Conf42 DevOps 2025, Virtual, 23 January 2025
(TX)NUG Dallas Winter Event 2024, Dallas, 25 January 2024
Conf42 DevOps 2024, Virtual, 25 January 2024
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
Industry 🏭
Cloudflare says it lost 55% of logs pushed to customers for 3.5 hours because 60% of the time we syslog every time, wait what were we saying again… 👴
Meta plans to build a $10B subsea cable spanning the world, sources say which is gonna have the highest latency since they put that extra fibre spool loop to induce latency in Hibernia Express’ seamate cable 🚠
A Chinese ship is suspected of sabotaging undersea cables so Meta better watch out and armourplate that thing if they don’t want to spend another $10B fighting off attacks with frikkin lasers 🔫
Amazon Route 53 announces HTTPS, SSHFP, SVCB, and TLSA DNS resource record support if you don’t know what these are, look them up - DNS ain’t just A Name, CNAME and PTRs these days 📖
Finally, a sign of life for Europe’s sovereign satellite Internet constellation is GPS vs GLONASS but for Starlink and LEO 🛰️
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 💬.