Senior Cloud Network Engineer
$176,900–$332,400 year
On-siteReston, Virginia, United States
Job Summary
Design and implement hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS. Build and modernize VPC-based network fabrics using AWS services, integrating physical firewalls and VPN-connected sites with virtual cloud networking. Reduce dependence on static routing by introducing flexible, software-defined, policy-driven network patterns and designing for burst traffic, failover, and high availability. Create repeatable deployments using Terraform and automation, while improving observability through flow logs, metrics, and telemetry pipelines. Contribute to AIOps/capacity planning initiatives using telemetry for anomaly detection and faster incident response. Partner with cloud platform, field communications, software, and security teams to deliver reliable end-to-end connectivity for mission-critical global platforms.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering
- Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking in production, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, and security segmentation and routing design
- Strong networking fundamentals, including IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, high availability/failover, and network security fundamentals
- Experience connecting physical networks into cloud-based virtual networks
- Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
- Experience troubleshooting across network, platform, and application boundaries
- Support for high-availability, mission-critical, or globally distributed systems
- An active Top Secret SCI security clearance
Desired Qualifications
- Experience with virtual firewalls/appliances such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent
- Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD workflows
- Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or large-scale WAN modernization
- Experience with network observability tools and platforms such as Grafana, ELK, Kibana, flow log analysis, and synthetic monitoring
- Experience applying AIOps, analytics, or ML-assisted techniques to anomaly detection, capacity planning, traffic analysis, and incident reduction
- Experience with remote systems, low bandwidth, or unreliable connections
- AWS certifications or equivalent practical cloud networking depth
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