Global Foundries - Lead Network Engineer - Datacenter

Lead Network Engineer - Datacenter

About GlobalFoundries :

GlobalFoundries is a leading full-service semiconductor foundry providing a unique combination of design, development, and fabrication services to some of the worlds most inspired technology companies.

With a global manufacturing footprint spanning three continents, GlobalFoundries makes possible the technologies and systems that transform industries and give customers the power to shape their markets.

Introduction :

This role will be within the Infrastructure Solutions Delivery (ISD) organization at GlobalFoundries IT.

The ISD organization's primary focus is on building, developing, and delivering infrastructure that effectively addresses business requirements and opportunities, while ensuring a robust, sustainable, and standardized platform for Operations to manage.

Your Job :

- Ensure all IT solutions follow agreed architectural methodologies.

- Manage business requirements, contain development costs, and reduce the time to delivery.

- Ensure the quality and security of IT Infrastructure platforms.

- Deploy stable and flexible IT infrastructure enabling easy maintenance and updates for future demand.

- Ensure infrastructure reliability by design, including disaster recovery capabilities.

Role :

- Provide Networking Low-Level Design (LLD) input to tactical partners, including updating network drawings in Microsoft Visio for both To Be and As Built network designs for global storage installations.

- Provide support for all network details required for enterprise storage and compute, including VLANs, DNS, NTP, IP, Netmask, and Gateway.

- Manage ServiceNow Change Requests related to network changes required for enterprise datacenter, ensuring compliance with Failure Mode & Effect Analysis (FMEA) standards.

- This role will be responsible for the implementation of change, with support of the Network Infrastructure Delivery organization.

- Support the implementation of new fiber runs within the datacenter, and between datacenters.

- Validating need, locations, types, lengths, and assisting GF with the placement of the order. (These runs are done via 3rd party)

- Validate and test High Availability network architecture designs for newly implemented infrastructure.

- Provide new network configuration requirements for the setup of the VMWare Cloud Foundation, including VLAN, IP, DNS, etc.

- Analyze and optimize traffic paths from premise to cloud.

Technologies : Cisco Catalyst, Cisco Nexus, Cisco ACI

Required Qualifications :

- A bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.

- Experience with DevOps tools and methodologies, such as CI/CD, Git, Jenkins, Ansible, etc.

- Strong knowledge of Cisco networking (Catalyst/Nexus) for datacenter.

Preferred Skillsets :

- Problem-Solving : Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills with a proactive approach to identifying and resolving issues.

- Communication : Strong verbal and written communication skills, with the ability to convey technical information clearly and effectively.