Make an impact on the browsing experience of 322 million users worldwide
Have you ever dreamed of making a real impact on the way people access the web? Well, then working at Opera should be exactly right for you! Here, the innovations you create quickly get implemented and delivered to our users.
Huge scale - small, independent teams
You will work in a globally scaled IT environment, surrounded by supportive colleagues and in a flat organizational structure with short decision-making processes that boost your creativity and drive.
Job description:
Opera is growing its Global IT Team in Wrocław/Warsaw, Poland. We are looking for a networking technology wizard who wants to help us build, expand, and improve our data centers and cloud computing platform. You will work with the Global IT Team and many product teams on designing, delivering, automating, and maintaining Opera’s cloud environment.
While everybody is using the cloud today, you’ll be building it!
Responsibilities:
- Evaluate, test, and implement new networking solutions in Opera’s data centers. You will start by analyzing demands and requirements, followed by comparing possible solutions and deploying a production DC network. Finally, you and your colleagues will make sure that the devices’ configuration is good and network traffic is flowing.
- Provide hundreds of robust and stable gigabits of network capacity for Opera products on a daily basis. You will improve environment monitoring, react to problems, and work with teams and vendors to make connections work flawlessly.
Requirements:
- An in-depth understanding of data center-grade hardware from leading vendors (Cisco and Juniper, to name a few)
- Experience in network change rollout and software/hardware upgrades for data center routers, switches and firewalls
- Familiarity with day-to-day operations and scheduled maintenance windows for data center network infrastructure
- Proficiency with TCP/IP protocol suite: BGP, OSPF, VRRP, BFD, IPv6, MC-LAG and IPSec
- Fluency with traffic filtering and NAT on highly efficient stateful firewall clusters
- A good understanding of how IP Transit, Peering and Internet Exchange work, along with their best practices
- Knowledge of process automation specific to networking (one of Ansible/Salt/Nornir/Napalm)
- Knowledge and practical experience with REST APIs and CI/CD solutions
- Python scripting skills
- Fluency in English, both written and spoken
About us:
Opera is a global web innovator with an engaged and growing base of hundreds of millions of monthly active users who seek a better internet experience. Building on over 25 years of innovation that started with browser products, Opera is now leveraging its brand and highly engaged user base in order to expand its business into new segments. Today, Opera offers users around the world a range of products and services that include PC and mobile browsers, the newsreader Opera News, and apps dedicated to gaming, fintech, e-commerce and classifieds.
Opera is headquartered in Oslo, Norway with major offices in Poland, China, Estonia and Sweden, as well as a presence in many additional countries. Opera is listed on the Nasdaq stock exchange under the “OPRA” ticker symbol.