Senior Enterprise Engineer - DNS, DHCP, IPAM

Company Description

LinkedIn is the world's largest professional network, built to create economic opportunity for every member of the global workforce. Our products help people make powerful connections, discover exciting opportunities, build necessary skills, and gain valuable insights every day. We're also committed to providing transformational opportunities for our own employees by investing in their growth. We aspire to create a culture that's built on trust, care, inclusion, and fun – where everyone can succeed.

Join us to transform the way the world works.

At LinkedIn, our approach to flexible work is centered on trust and optimized for culture, connection, clarity, and the evolving needs of our business. The work location of this role is hybrid, meaning it will be performed both from home and from a LinkedIn office on select days, as determined by the business needs of the team. 

Job Description

Job Description 

We are looking for a Senior Enterprise Engineer to join our Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering team. Our infrastructure empowers every developer, operator, and employee by making it effortless to access, build and operate workloads they need to do their jobs and enhance productivity. We create frictionless secure and AI-first environments where automation is the default, compliance is built-in and resources are optimized for performance, cost and sustainability. By doing so, we will enable teams at LInkedIn to innovate faster, reduce operational burden and deliver enterprise grade reliability at scale. In this role, you will be leading a team of engineers to develop and manage products, services that help manage and scale our enterprise infrastructure.  

Responsibilities: 

• Design, implement, maintain, and troubleshoot global DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (DDI) platforms in a distributed, global environment. 

• Lead automation initiatives to eliminate manual operational tasks, focusing on self-service tooling, CI/CD pipelines, and configuration-as-code solutions. 

• Develop Python or C# based automation tools, REST APIs, and monitoring/health-check frameworks to optimize service delivery. 

• You are responsible for owning and managing DNS, DNS security measures, engineering advanced DNS concepts 

• You will design integration capabilities of DNS, DHCP and IPAM systems 

• You are responsible for performing regular audits of DDI stack 

• Design and implement pipelines and indexes for data aggregation and analysis 

• Develop and enforce policies and foresee DR/BCP implementations of our infrastructure. 

• Mentor junior team members and collaborate with global stakeholders on engineering, automation, and remediation projects. 

• Create and maintain technical documentation, including processes, procedures, project requirements, and architectural designs. 

• Participate in the team’s on-call support rotation to ensure 24/7 service reliability. 

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical discipline, or related practical experience. 

• 5+ years of experience in Enterprise Engineering, DevOps, or Data Center Enterprise Technologies 

• 3+ years’ experience in software design, development, and algorithm related solutions. 

• 3+ years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C++ 

• Experience developing distributed systems, large scale purpose driven systems, databases and/or backend APIs. 
   

Preferred Qualifications: 

• MS or PhD in Computer Science or related technical discipline 

• 5+ years of hands-on software engineering 

• Team leadership experience 

• 3+ years working with production systems. 

• Experience in technology and strategic leadership role in a large organization 

• Experience designing and building infrastructure and web services at large scale. 

• Experience in building and testing of highly reliable, available and scalable large-scale distributed systems and client-server architectures. 

• Shipped big projects with lots of team dependencies. 

• Involved in creating and executing tech strategy. 

• Good at coaching and mentoring team members. 

Suggested Skills: 

• Enterprise Infrastructure (DNS, DHCP, IPAM/DDI)
• Python, C#, REST APIs & Infrastructure Automation
• Distributed Systems, CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code

Additional Information

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