Cloud Engineer

Benefits : 401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Vision insurance

Job description – Cloud Network Engineer

An immediate opening for a Senior Network Engineer with Cloud experience position to support our federal government client. The successful candidate will support Azure and AWS network architectures and connectivity options, with an initial focus on managed network and security services.

Alongside a team of cloud and network engineers, the candidate will engage with line and program offices in a solutions architecture capacity, perform design and proof of concept work, deploy new services for customers, and support the operational Cloud environment.

Clearance Requirements : US Citizenship and eligibility for Public Trust

RESPONSIBILITIES

Leverage Amazon Web Services and Azure to build scalable network infrastructure

Participate in building and supporting an Azure landing zone that will provide security and routing services from hub VNETs with IaaS-based firewalls managing traffic between VNETs and ExpressRoutes.

Facilitate connectivity from customer spoke VNets to managed Hub VNet

Build, troubleshoot and manage virtual machine lifecycle for IaaS

Apply security and load balancing rules within managed environment

Engage with customers to understand workload and application requirements for IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS services and make recommendations to enhance customer success

Develop enhancements to existing managed service environment and perform design and proof of concept work for new features

Promote best practices to ensure governance and compliance

Participate in change control process alongside cloud and network engineers

Automate processes and builds where possible to reduce manual effort

Maintain operational environment to meet customer SLAs

QUALIFICATIONS

Strong knowledge of networking protocols and technologies including BGP, IPSec, network segmentation, VRFs, Switching, VLANs and load balancers.

Experience deploying Network Virtual Appliances in Cloud, most preferably from Fortinet (but could be Palo Alto, Cisco, or F5)

Understanding of variety of Direct Connect, ExpressRoute and VPN connectivity options to connect AWS / Azure, and premises for hybrid connectivity

Experience administering firewalls, including security features and configurations, either on-prem or in cloud

Experience with load balancers, and understanding of options for packet header manipulation

Strong understanding of AWS and Azure technologies across compute, storage, network, database

Practical experience migrating customer workloads from premises to cloud

Understanding of modern devops practices, containerization, security, and observability

Scripting ability to enable automation solutions and deploy infrastructure as code, interacting with Azure Resource Manager (ARM) with Terraform, Azure PowerShell, and Azure CLI

Strong understanding of identity management, federated identity systems (Microsoft ADFS), MFA, and Active Directory integration with cloud apps and Azure AD

Deep operational experience ensuring efficient troubleshooting and speed to problem resolution

Strong written, verbal, and presentation skills, and ability to communicate complex technical ideas to many audiences

8+ years of experience in networking and 5+ years in cloud engineering

Professional certifications such as AWS certification, AZ-104 (AZ-103), AZ-204 (AZ-203), AZ-303 (AZ-300), AZ-400, AZ-500, CCNP, JNICP, CCIE, JNCIE is desirable

We wish to thank all applicants for their interest and effort in applying for the position; however, only candidates selected for interviews will be contacted.