Principal Cloud Network Engineer

About this role

Dayforce is a global human capital management (HCM) company headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, with operations across North America, Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA), and the Asia Pacific Japan (APJ) region.


Our award-winning Cloud HCM platform offers a unified solution database and continuous calculation engine, driving efficiency, productivity and compliance for the global workforce.


Our brand promise - Makes Work Life Better™ - Reflects our commitment to employees, customers, partners and communities globally.


Citizenship Requirement for US Candidates:

• Must be a US citizen, Naturalized citizen, green card holder or permanent resident
• Ability to obtain US security clearance

About the opportunity

The Principal Cloud Network Engineer plays a pivotal and hands-on role within the Cloud Network team, emphasizing expertise in implementation, administration, support and monitoring for network edge, load balancing, caching and security across our global enterprise cloud. The ideal candidate is comfortable at influencing strategy, highly collaborative, and possesses a profound background in network engineering, implementation, and automation at enterprise scale.


What you’ll get to do

• Provide overall technical direction and strategic leadership for the delivery of highly available and scalable network infrastructure. This includes edge networking, caching, global backbone, data center networking, load balancing, and network security across both public and private clouds.
• Support and troubleshoot availability, performance, product, and infrastructure issues in production environments.
• Collaborate closely with cloud engineering, platform engineering, and product teams to ensure we are scaling ahead of business needs.
• Implement automated configuration and deployment process improving network functionality, availability, and performance.
• Develop infrastructure-as-code across both public and priva...