At KAR, the Site Services team designs, deploys and operates SDWAN, LAN, WiFi, and infrastructure across multiple environments internationally.&nbsp; We are a dynamic and innovative team which aims to provide exceptional customer experience by leveraging best in class automation and orchestration practices for infrastructure and applications. As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will utilize your software and network engineering background to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-tolerant systems. We strive to hire people who are looking to make an impact and thrive in a freedom filled environment driven by context. About Our Candidate:&nbsp;You will ensure that our SDWAN environment and systems - both internally and externally facing-have reliability and maximum uptime. Our current team focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and eliminating work through automation. You are responsible for the big picture of how our systems relate to each other, we use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices such as limiting time spent on manual operational work, postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is key to both product quality and technical standards. What You Will Be Doing:&nbsp;<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Maintain and improve our global SDWAN network.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Build scalable systems, using best practices around automation, pushing changes that improve reliability and velocity</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, planning and reviews</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Provide mentorship and training to other team members on technologies and processes; drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Drive high standards around incident response practices and policies</li>
</ul> What You Need to Be Successful:&nbsp;<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">At least 7 years’ experience managing, configuring and troubleshooting enterprise networks.Track record of initiative (business problem solving) and working both as part of a team and autonomously.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">3+ years of experience in an IT Operational, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, or Software Engineering role</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Cisco Viptela SD-WAN, Cisco Wi-Fi, Meraki Wi-Fi, Cisco core routing and switching, WAN (MPLS/BGP)/LAN routing and switching.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining MPLS and broadband circuits.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">You should be versatile, able to plan and design, proactively seek issues before they become incidents and troubleshoot complex issues using various tool sets.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">You should be versatile, able to plan and design, proactively seek issues before they become incidents and troubleshoot complex issues using various tool sets.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">You should be familiar with ITIL processes.</li>
</ul> Nice to Have:<ul>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">ITIL and/or Cisco certifications.</li>
<li style="margin: 0px; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 13px; line-height: normal; font-family: &quot;Helvetica Neue&quot;;">Experience automating/scripting with tools like Ansible</li>
</ul>

At KAR, the Site Services team designs, deploys and operates SDWAN, LAN, WiFi,
and infrastructure across multiple environments internationally.  We are a
dynamic and innovative team which aims to provide exceptional customer
experience by leveraging best in class automation and orchestration practices
for infrastructure and applications.

  

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will utilize your software and network
engineering background to build and run large-scale, distributed, fault-
tolerant systems. We strive to hire people who are looking to make an impact
and thrive in a freedom filled environment driven by context.

  

 **About Our Candidate:  **

You will ensure that our SDWAN environment and systems - both internally and
externally facing-have reliability and maximum uptime. Our current team
focuses on optimizing existing systems, building infrastructure and
eliminating work through automation. You are responsible for the big picture
of how our systems relate to each other, we use a breadth of tools and
approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. Practices such as limiting
time spent on manual operational work, postmortems and proactive
identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement that is
key to both product quality and technical standards.

  

 **What You Will Be Doing:  **

  * Maintain and improve our global SDWAN network.
  * Build scalable systems, using best practices around automation, pushing changes that improve reliability and velocity
  * Support services before they go live through activities such as system design consulting, developing software platforms and frameworks, planning and reviews
  * Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
  * Provide mentorship and training to other team members on technologies and processes; drive education and knowledge transfer of design patterns, technical practices, and relevant technologies and tools
  * Drive high standards around incident response practices and policies

  

**What You Need to Be Successful:  **

  * At least 7 years’ experience managing, configuring and troubleshooting enterprise networks.Track record of initiative (business problem solving) and working both as part of a team and autonomously.
  * 3+ years of experience in an IT Operational, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineer, or Software Engineering role
  * Cisco Viptela SD-WAN, Cisco Wi-Fi, Meraki Wi-Fi, Cisco core routing and switching, WAN (MPLS/BGP)/LAN routing and switching.
  * Experience implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining MPLS and broadband circuits.
  * You should be versatile, able to plan and design, proactively seek issues before they become incidents and troubleshoot complex issues using various tool sets.
  * You should be versatile, able to plan and design, proactively seek issues before they become incidents and troubleshoot complex issues using various tool sets.
  * You should be familiar with ITIL processes.

  

**Nice to Have:**

  * ITIL and/or Cisco certifications.
  * Experience automating/scripting with tools like Ansible

