COMPANY OVERVIEW
KKR & Co. Inc., together with its subsidiaries, is a leading global investment firm that offers alternative asset management and capital markets and insurance solutions. KKR aims to generate attractive investment returns by following a patient and disciplined investment approach, employing world-class people, and supporting growth in its portfolio companies and communities. KKR sponsors investment funds that invest in private equity, credit and real assets and has strategic partners that manage hedge funds. KKR’s insurance subsidiaries offer retirement, life and reinsurance products under the management of The Global Atlantic Financial Group.
KKR's Gurugram office will provide best in class services and solutions to our internal stakeholders and clients, drive organization wide process efficiency and transformation, and reflect KKR's global culture and values of teamwork and innovation. The office will contain multifunctional business capabilities and will be integral in furthering the growth and transformation of KKR. This is a 5 days work from office role based in our Gurugram office.
Senior Network/Cloud network engineering role will perform the following tasks:
- Develop and maintain tools to enhance network visibility and automation for onpremise and cloud (AWS/Azure). Aid in migrating production workloads from on-premise to the cloud (AWS/Azure).
- Research, recommend, implement and administer networking operations. Serve as architect and consultant regarding all network components, functions, and implementations.
- Troubleshoot and mitigate adverse impact due to network related issues. Be available on a rotating basis to respond to incidents.
- Recommend and develop appropriate networking constructs for AWS Public cloud network platform.
- Configure and maintain cloud network tooling at enterprise scale as part of a global team.
Primary Responsibilities
- Architect/engineer high availability and automated failover architectures
- Network design / optimization, Load Balancing, Traffic Shaping, and DNS optimization
- Work with Software Engineering, Reliability Engineering, and Security Operations teams to optimize system specifications and support the production applications and infrastructure.
- Create and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IAC) using industry standard platforms.
- Engage in capacity planning and demand forecasting
- Incident Support and on-call rotation to support application availability
Role Based Competencies:
- Expert knowledge in designing and deploying dynamically scalable, fault-tolerant on-premise, hybrid and cloud-based networks, that are highly available and highly reliable, in support of a migration effort for existing applications.
- Knowledge of Linux container operations and service mesh constructs (Kubernetes/Istio)
- Expertise in working and architecting in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Ability to design network solutions on AWS across Availability Zones and Regions
- Expertise in network infrastructure and concepts (VPNs, routing protocols, TCP/IP, IPv4 and v6, VXLAN, OSI layers, etc.)
- Strong knowledge in:
- Nexus 7k
- Virtual Port-Channel
- NX-OS
- Checkpoint management
- I2
- BGP knowledge
- Good Troubleshooting skills
- Experience with selection, design, implementation, and support of enterprise network systems and diagnostic tools
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's Degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience;
- An understanding of AWS Public Cloud and Hybrid Cloud networking environments
- 4-7+ years of private network technologies and related experience
Preferred Qualifications
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect/Sysops/Devops – Associate/Professional (certification · Previous Cloud Experience with Amazon Web Services.
- AWS-specific skills (Networking: Route53, Direct Connect, etc.) and (Security: WAF, Config, CloudWatch, etc.)
- CCNP or higher Cisco certification strongly preferred
- Experience with automated configuration and deployment; Chef, Puppet, Terraform, or other Infrastructure as Code (IAC) frameworks.
- Experience working in an Agile, Scrum and DevOps work environments
- Strong delivery mindset, excellent consultative communication and negotiation skills, proven ability to work effectively with internal/external clients, vendors and consultants.
- Ability to communicate effectively across the organization - to Engineers, Product Managers, Sales, Customer Satisfaction, and Executives - supported by metrics and analysis.
- Important things that you will bring to our culture, but things that we can’t teach:
- Drive - Positive Attitude - Good Judgement - Open Communication – Collaboration – A Desire to Make Impact - Eager to Understand – Accountability – Decisiveness – You’re a Team Player
KKR is an equal opportunity employer. Individuals seeking employment are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, sexual orientation, or any other category protected by applicable law.
