Senior Network Reliability Engineer - Cloud Data Center - Permanent

About Huawei

Huawei’s products and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used by a third of the world’s population. Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG) is one of Huawei’s three business units and covers smartphones, PC and tablets, wearables and cloud services, etc.

Huawei Mobile Services (HMS) is part of CBG and it develops new cloud services that are offered free of charge to Huawei mobile device users.

HMS ecosystem is now the third largest ecosystem in the world. As of September 2020, 96,000 global apps have integrated with HMS Core. HMS Apps continues to launch globally, with content apps such as HUAWEI Music, HUAWEI Video, HUAWEI Themes, HUAWEI Reader and HUAWEI Game Center taking center stage in various countries and regions.

About the IRC

Huawei Ireland Research Centre (IRC) mission is to position Huawei as a recognized technology leader and a global provider of information and communications technology (ICT) solutions. To achieve this we are building an industry-recognized multi-discipline Research Centre of experts with focus on medium-term to long-term issues. The IRC will work closely with an open innovative ecosystem with Huawei customers to address real-world issues. The IRC will also engage with key European universities to build a basic research capability to support Huawei technical projects.

About the Job

Huawei offers a highly reliable and performant network infrastructure, ensuring seamless connectivity and service continuity for millions of users globally. The Cloud Reliability Lab at Huawei Ireland Research Center is at the cutting edge of innovation, driving the development of the world's most advanced data centers. As a member of the team, you will play a critical role in maintaining and optimizing hyperscale cloud data centers to meet the growing demand for computational power across a wide range of services, including AI, big data analytics, and cloud computing.

In this role, you will collaborate with global network engineers, software engineers, and researchers to ensure the reliability and performance of Huawei Cloud's hybrid optical-electrical network infrastructure, which is based on OXC and SONiC technologies, addressing complex challenges in cloud data center operations. Your efforts will directly contribute to delivering unmatched reliability and performance to Huawei Cloud users globally.

The work you do here will have a direct impact on the global community, empowering millions of users to rely on Huawei Cloud for their critical applications and services. Join us in shaping the future of hyperscale cloud infrastructure and delivering unmatched reliability to the world. 

Responsibilities

• Optimize Huawei Cloud's hybrid optical-electrical data center network solutions to ensure high availability, fault tolerance, and efficient traffic management.
• Collaborate on designing, building, and maintaining scalable network infrastructure across cloud environments.
• Evaluate and adopt new technologies to enhance the reliability and scalability of cloud network solutions, including traditional DCN networks, AI networks, and WAN networks.
• Define and enforce operational standards and best practices for cloud networking infrastructure.
• Improve problem detection and outage recovery times for the networking infrastructure in response to incidents and anomalies.

• Develop automation scripts, maintain CI/CD pipelines, and plan for scalability and capacity, developing load tests and capacity plans.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience with a Masters or Ph.D in Computer science or related fields.
• Hands on experience in design, deployment, and operation of cloud scale data center networks.
• Experience with Elastic Optical Networks (OXC/OCS) and Software Defined Networking (SDN) basics.
• Experience in coding or scripting in at least two high level programming languages (e.g: C, C++, Python, Go, Rust)
• Strong communication skills and documentation skills.
• Optional: Hands on experience working with AWS, Azure or GCP services.
• Optional: Experience in a specific networking domain such as traffic engineering (MPLS, congestion control, load balancing), routing protocols (OSPF, BGP, ISIS), network security (Firewalls, zero trust networking, DDOS protection), hardware acceleration (SmartNICs, FPGA), high performance data planes (DPDK, P4), or open source network operating systems (SoNIC, ONL).

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