Overview

Senior Software Engineer - Network Production Engineer

role at

Bloomberg . Location: London. You will be a critical member of the team responsible for the full lifecycle of our global network infrastructure that supports Bloomberg’s core products and services. Our network connects data centers and edge sites, and links Bloomberg to hundreds of thousands of clients, hundreds of exchanges and trading venues over private connectivity, the Internet, and Public Cloud. This role offers the opportunity to build robust, highly scalable solutions and to develop tooling that applies automation best practices and principles. Responsibilities

Develop and maintain software tools to manage a large-scale, multi-vendor network with an emphasis on automation, telemetry, and model-driven infrastructure as code. Automate the full network lifecycle—including provisioning, configuration, observability, testing, troubleshooting, and capacity planning. Collaborate with architecture and design teams and the CTO office to implement new technologies that ensure scalability, efficiency, and operational resilience. Develop tools and platforms that enhance the observability, reliability, and performance of the production network. Enhance existing monitoring and observability frameworks, integrating intelligent alerting and self-remediation capabilities to reduce manual intervention and improve incident response. Define and measure service-level objectives (SLOs) to track infrastructure performance and reliability. Write software utilizing orchestration systems to automate tasks and interact with other systems. Provide mentorship to junior engineers and promote software engineering best practices throughout the team. Practice and promote the use of a modern software development lifecycle. Qualifications

Extensive experience as a Software, Network Production, or System Reliability Engineer. Experience with building, maintaining and continuously enhancing automations needed for scalability and efficiency in running the Network Infrastructure. Experience in infrastructure automation and orchestration frameworks (e.g., Ansible, Airflow, Terraform, Chef, Salt). Proven experience with object-oriented programming languages, preferably Python. A bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a similar field of study, or equivalent work experience. Nice to have

Experience managing and automating network devices at scale such as Juniper, Nokia, Arista, Cisco, Whitebox, etc. Understanding of various network architectures across Internet, Public Cloud, Private Networks, DWDM and Optical Networking, and Data Center design fundamentals. Experience with network modelling. Eagerness to learn new technologies and mentor others. Experience with Telemetry: Splunk, Grafana, Humio. Experience with continuous integration and deployment tools. Experience implementing, maintaining and troubleshooting MPLS, BGP, OSPF, IGMP, PIM related internal and external network routing issues in a production environment. Knowledge of messaging queues such as Kafka, RabbitMQ, etc. Job Details

Seniority level:

Mid-Senior level Employment type:

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Information Technology Industries:

Computer Networking Products

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