This week we Torrent via WireGuard and Docker 🚢; play with the brilliant Nokia EDA platform 🚀; learn Networking Best Practice from Citrix 🎯; give our Dev friends a cheatsheet on Network Protocols 🧑🎓; stop in-person Networking turning toxic 🗑️; use a ratchet to climb the Engineering Ladder 🪜; throwaway our Design Docs for real-time documentation ☁️ and build effective AI Agents 🤖. Let’s dive in; ⬇️
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My Comcast/home ISP-proof qBittorrent setup goes in depth of getting torrenting working via an ISP using Docker, WireGuard and some other bits and pieces that might make you think 🤔
Fundamentals of VXLAN (Virtual Extensible LAN) if you’re new to the DC Network Overlay champion and need a quick primer 🧅
Event Driven Automation is a brilliant offering from Nokia (yes, that one; the phone people do DCs too) with a great playground to boot, think Ansible meets NetBox meets Postman 🧨
Networking SSL/TLS Best Practices (Q1 2025 Edition) is written by Citrix, but has some gems about all things TLS, HTTPs and encryption in general no matter what platform you’re working with 💡
Network Protocols for anyone who knows a Programming Language is a handy guide you can throw at your DevOps or Application chums when they’re pestering you with questions and crappy Layer 2-only requirements 🎯
Decoding IP Addressing and Subnetting - The Backbone of Networking is a handy refresher of everything you’ve already forgotten about CIDR, VLSM, netmasks, bit-shifting and all that supernet stuff ♻️
Hiring 💼
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 USA and Canada
🇺🇸 Principal Network Developer @ Oracle, Permie, USA, WA/CA
🇺🇸 IT Network Lead - WAN @ Baxter, Permie, USA, IL
🇺🇸 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
🇺🇸 Senior Network Engineer @ Datadog, Permie, USA, NY/MA/CO/CA
🇺🇸 Lead Network Engineer @ Salesforce, Permie, USA, VA
🇺🇸 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
🇬🇧 Principal Network Engineer @ London Stock Exchange, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Design Engineer @ ION, Permie, UK, Woking
🇬🇧 Network and Security Engineer @ Bupa, Permie, UK, London/Manchester/Brighton
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Staff Network Engineer - Cloud Platform @ Wise, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network Engineer @ TikTok, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Senior Cloud Network Engineer @ Microsoft, Permie, UK, Remote
🇮🇪 Network Operations Manager @ Crusoe, Permie, Ireland, Dublin
🇬🇧 Senior Core Network Engineer @ Cloud Gateway, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Principal Engineer, Zero Trust Network @ GSK, Permie, UK, Stevenage
🇬🇧 Transportation Network Engineer @ Amazon, Permie, UK, London
🇬🇧 Network and Security Architect @ MBDA, Permie, Manchester
🇬🇧 Network Engineer Foundation Services Automation @ Meta, Permie, London
🇪🇺 Mainland Europe
🇬🇧 🇵🇹 Infrastructure Deployment Engineer @ Cloudflare, Permie, UK/Portugal, Remote
🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Network Security Research Architect @ NVIDIA, Permie, UK/Germany, Remote
🇳🇱 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
🇮🇳 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 🤔
When Networking Turns Toxic: The Dark Side of Industry Events is an unfortunate reflection on much of our society, and a reminder we need to work together to put professionalism first at in-person meet-ups 🤝
The Betterment Metric proposes an alternative test to checking a person’s aptitude involving a common Security Screening event that’s better than most of the aptitude tests we’ve taken 🥼
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies or something akin to “If you want something don, give it to the busy person”, and worth understanding if you’re looking to climb that org ladder 🪜
Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? can best be answered “yes, but it depends”; you’re not going to get the mileage out of the shouts of “enhance, enhance, ENHANCE!” without some tips 🕹️
Building effective agents is AI giant Anthropic’s advice if you’re getting into all things Agentic AI and want to start automating some of your work and non-work related tasks 🤖
Preferring throwaway code over design docs is mindful reading in a forthcoming age where AI will crank out that HLD or LLD in no time; remember, the purpose of the Doc is to get the thing built or understood, not published in your local Waterstones 📚
Events 📅
🤜 Meet-ups
NetLdn, London, Monthly, Every 2nd Thursday
NetMcr, Manchester, Every Monthly, 2nd Thursday
NetBCN, Barcelona, See Schedule
📢 Conferences
Hat-tip to Pete Crocker @ OpsMill for the tip-offs 👍
Conf42 DevOps 2025, Virtual, 23 January 2025
CfgMgmtCamp 2025, Ghent, 3 - 5 February 2025
NANOG 93, Atlanta, 3 - 5 February 2025
Netdev 0x19, Zagreb, 10 - 14 March 2025
FRnOG 41, Paris, 28 March 2025
Cloudflare Connect 2025, London, 10 April 2025
Conf42 SRE 2025, Virtual, 17 April 2025
OCP EMEA Summit, Dublin, 29 - 30 April 2025
RIPE 90, Lisbon, 12 - 16 May 2025
AutoCon 3, Prague, 26 - 30 May 2025
Devopsdays Amsterdam, Amsterdam, 18 - 20 June 2025
Industry 🏭
Marvell Unveils Industry's First 3nm 1.6 Tbps PAM4 Interconnect Platform to Scale Accelerated Infrastructure to allow pushing 1.6 Tbps via an interconnect on an optical platform 🙀
1,000s of Palo Alto Networks firewalls hijacked as miscreants exploit critical hole so get patching or hoping your dual-vendor firewall sandwich strategy pays off 🤞
Hackers are exploiting a new Ivanti VPN security bug to hack into company networks and if like us you have to Google that vendor, you might want to read on 🔖
Most popular home internet routers in US may be banned as national security risk but they’re still some of the coolest-looking, especially the Deco range 👌
Finland’s Elisa Oyj Launches First 800ZR Coherent Services with Juniper with CORA and IPoDWDM to drive 800 Gigawatts over a kagillion miles… well, kinda; read on for details 🏎️
T-Mobile users can try Starlink-enabled phone service for free during beta making LEO come closer to the RAN, so we’re going to hedge our bets and call it RANLEO, ran, ran! from now on 📡
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 💬.