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Cruise’s Network Access Engineering team is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to help us operate and scale our AV production and enterprise access networks. This role is responsible for ensuring that AVs and users are connected, secure and supported by setting baseline expectations across various facility types and handling support escalations from their strong partnership with Cruise’s IT teams.
If you're interested in building and operating the global network that supports our autonomous driving mission, let's talk!
What you’ll be doing:
- Ensure Cruisers and Cruise AVs are provided with reliable, measured and secure network access across our portfolio of corporate offices and 24/7 commercial operations facilities
- Collaborate with our IT and Vehicle Operations customer teams to design and deliver to them outstanding network experiences
- Help architect operational workflow improvements to our global network
- Work with our Operations teams to ensure service level objectives are met and surpassed
- Perform network-based performance monitoring improvements
- Automate and scale our global network of routers, switches, and wireless equipment
- Participate in on-call rotation
What you must have:
- Experience with running and guiding network operations and observability initiatives
- Senior resource in a network operations team and supporting with Arista, Juniper, Palo Alto and Cisco platforms
- Experience in deploying and operating Ethernet wired & WiFi wireless access networks
- Expertise in managing Network Monitoring solutions and monitoring fusion
- Foundational knowledge of network security best-practices and design patterns
- Concrete understanding of WiFi 5 & 6 operations in dense deployments
Bonus Points:
- Strong understanding of NAC concepts and experience with 802.1x implementations
- Hands-on experience with Cloud deployments in GCP, AWS and Azure
- Knowledge of DevOps tools and platforms such as Terraform, Rundeck, Nautobot, etc.
- Python or Golang programming experience with a desire for leading DevOps practices
- Ability to seek truth in creative problem solving - addressing the root cause, and not its symptoms
The salary range for this position is $142,800 - $210,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.
Why Cruise?
Our benefits are here to support the whole you:
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
- Subsidized mental health benefits
- Paid time off and holidays
- Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
- 401(k) Cruise matching program
- Fertility benefits
- Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
- Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
- Perks Wallet program for benefits/perks
- Pre-tax Commuter benefit plan for local employees
- CruiseFlex, our location-flexible work policy. (Learn more about CruiseFlex).
We’re Integrated
- Through our partnerships with General Motors and Honda, we are the only self-driving company with fully integrated manufacturing at scale.
We’re Funded
- GM, Honda, Microsoft, T. Rowe Price, and Walmart have invested billions in Cruise. Their backing for our technology demonstrates their confidence in our progress, team, and vision and makes us one of the leading autonomous vehicle organizations in the industry. Our deep resources greatly accelerate our operating speed.
Cruise LLC is an equal opportunity employer. We strive to create a supportive and inclusive workplace where contributions are valued and celebrated, and our employees thrive by being themselves and are inspired to do the best work of their lives. We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, caste, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, or disability. Applicants will not be discriminated against based on these or other protected categories or social identities. Cruise will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records, in accordance with applicable laws.
Cruise is committed to the full inclusion of all applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know or email [email protected].
We proactively work to design hiring processes that promote equity and inclusion while mitigating bias. To help us track the effectiveness and inclusivity of our recruiting efforts, please consider answering the following demographic questions. Answering these questions is entirely voluntary. Your answers to these questions will not be shared with the hiring decision makers and will not impact the hiring decision in any way. Instead, Cruise will use this information not only to comply with any government reporting obligations but also to track our progress toward meeting our diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging objectives.
Candidates applying for roles that operate and remotely operate the AV: Licensed to drive a motor vehicle in the U.S. for the three years immediately preceding your application, currently holding an active in-state regular driver’s license or equivalent, and no more than one point on driving record. A successful completion of a background check, drug screen and DMV Motor Vehicle Record check is also required.
Note to Recruitment Agencies: Cruise does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Furthermore, Cruise does not pay placement fees for candidates submitted by any agency other than its approved partners.
