Tunneling Quantum Networks through a GRE Tunnel
If you observe the state hard enough, the MTU will match
This week we check why we haven’t seen full Network Automation adoption 🕧; change our approach to Data Centre management networks ⚙️; realise how little we know about 802.11 Wireless 🛜; break BGP SP networks with RFC8277 😱; see how to program well with LLMs 🤖; learn how to author an Engineering Strategy 📝 and see why Glue work is considered harmful ⛔️. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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NetEng 🔧
Why haven’t we seen full adoption of network automation, yet? and it’s not what you might think, the first two P’s in PPT are hard 👶
Data Center Management Network discusses what OOB means to the DC Fabric, and how you might change your approach to traditional DC Out-of-Band designs 🎸
What's 802.11 exactly? asks if you know your g’s from your n’s from your ac’s, ax’s, Wave 1’s, Wave 2’s, MIMO’s and more 🤔
Evaluating and applying Infrastructure as Code is not like compiling and deploying application code because infrastructure involves hardware and lifecycle elements that differ from software 💿
Adding Global IPv6 to Your Lab via Tunnel harks back to the awesomeness that is HE Tunnel Broker, and using it in your Network Lab for IPv6 go:od:ne:ss 🚇
RFC8277 breaks backwards compatibility for BGP-LU in MPLS networks, so check it out if you’re about to change any Unified MPLS or Seamless MPLS cores soon ☢️
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Data Center Deployment Engineer @ Netflix, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Engineer @ Intrepid Fiber Networks, Permie, USA, CO
🇺🇸 Staff Cloud Network Engineer @ Aviatrix, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Junior Network Engineer @ Jacobs, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Development Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, USA, WA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Engineer @ Crusoe, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Lead IT Network Engineering @ Kaseya, Permie, USA, FL
🇨🇦 Network Automation Software Developer @ Nokia, Permie, Canada, Ontario
🇺🇸 Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, TX/VA/WA
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 Senior Engineer Wireless Product Development @ Comcast, Permie, USA, PA
🇺🇸 Network Development Engineer @ Capgemini, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Network Automation Python Software Engineer II @ Bank of America, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Senior Solutions Architect, Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, Permie, USA, TX/ID/CA/NV
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Roche, Permie, USA, CA
🇺🇸 Senior IT Network Engineer @ SpaceX, Permie, USA, TX
🇺🇸 Data Center Network Architect @ Apple, 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
🇬🇧 Lead Network Engineer @ Home Office, Permie, UK, Manchester
🇬🇧 Transportation Network Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇩🇪 Network WAN DevOps Architect @ SAP, Permie, Germany, Berlin
🇳🇱 Network Architect @ Nebius, Permie, Netherlands, Amsterdam
🇪🇸 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
🇵🇭 Network Engineer Cloud @ Reed Elsevier, Permie, Philippines
🇨🇳 Senior Solutions Architect Ethernet Networking @ NVIDIA, China, Remote
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Zscaler, India, Mohali
🇮🇳 Senior Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, India
🇮🇳 Network Automation Engineer @ Millennium, India, Bangalore
🇮🇳 Senior Network Engineer @ Snowflake, India, Pune
🇵🇭 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
🇦🇺 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
NotEng 🤔
How I program with LLMs and if we’re being personal, the answer is “pretty, pretty, pretty good” [but we could definitely learn a thing or two…] 🎼
Post-Quantum Cryptography is coming for the AES gold standard to make our current crypto algorithms look like the DES and 3DES of old 🕰️
Glue work considered harmful but essential to keep many teams going, so be careful if you fall into the “wait, what am I again?” trap too often 🪤
Writing an engineering strategy in detail, with practical examples and gotchas to avoid - useful for those of you with HLDs and Architectures to write-up 📝
Bruno is a Git-integrated, fully offline, and open-source API client that is something like Postman-meets-VSCode for API development or reverse engineering ⚙️
Digital consumption keeps me from getting better at my job and is getting worse in the age of the Attention Economy we find ourselves in 👀
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
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
How Akamai regained control of its runaway cloud bills by essentially rethinking what is hosted where, when, why and how ☁️
Are you looking for something different in your data center network? or is AI looking differently in your network to you… 🤖
A Quick Look At Infrahub Artifacts to get you up to speed with the NetBox-meets-Git-meets-CMDB awesome system that is Infrahub ▶️
MIST Campus Fabrics now support the vJunOS-Switch! so you can go deeper than just their awesome Wireless APs 🛜
BIRD Internet Routing daemon brings multithreading and a bunch of other useful enhancements in release 3 🐧
Next-gen Wi-Fi to trade ludicrous speed for the boring art of actually working as Wi-Fi 8 gears up for stability over throughput ⚖️
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 💬.