Senior Engineer – IPSec, Kubernetes, Networking

Role Overview

• Design and develop scalable networking solutions for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments
• Work on container networking technologies including CNI, ingress/egress, and network policies
• Implement and troubleshoot IPSec VPN solutions including tunnel setup, encryption, authentication, and key exchange mechanisms
• Analyze and improve network performance, latency, throughput, and scalability
• Debug complex networking issues across Kubernetes clusters, Linux hosts, and distributed systems
• Work with Internet protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, BGP, OSPF, DNS, DHCP, HTTP/HTTPS, NAT, VXLAN, GRE, and routing technologies
• Collaborate with platform, security, and infrastructure teams for end-to-end solution delivery
• Contribute to architecture discussions, design reviews, and technical strategy
• Automate deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows
• Participate in root cause analysis and production issue resolution
• Mentor junior engineers and guide best engineering practices

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in networking, cloud-native infrastructure, or distributed systems engineering
• Strong experience with Kubernetes architecture and administration
• Deep understanding of Kubernetes networking
• Expertise in Linux networking stack
• Hands-on experience with IPSec: IKEv1/IKEv2 ESP/AH tunnel and transport modes strongSwan / LibreSwan
• Strong understanding of Internet protocols
• Experience with cloud platforms and hybrid networking
• Strong debugging and packet analysis skills
• Programming/scripting experience in: Go, Python, C/C++, Bash
• DevOps & Automation experience with CI/CD pipelines and Git workflows
• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code and automation tools
• Experience with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana
• Knowledge of telecom/cloud networking and CNF architectures (preferred)
• Experience with OpenShift and enterprise Kubernetes platforms (preferred)
• Familiarity with multi-cluster and multi-cloud networking (preferred)
• Contributions to open-source networking projects (preferred)

Tech Stack

• Cloud
• Distributed Systems
• DNS
• Grafana
• Kubernetes
• Linux
• OpenShift
• Prometheus
• Python
• TCP/IP
• Go

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity policy
• Reasonable accommodations for candidates who need them