Cloud Network Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in North Carolina.

📋 Description

• Design, implement, secure, and provide support for enterprise network infrastructure across Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services, on-premises data centers, corporate offices, and remote locations.

• Ensure robust, secure, and scalable connectivity across hybrid cloud and enterprise environments.

• Collaborate with Infrastructure, Cloud, Information Security, Application Development, End User Support, Facilities, vendors, and business stakeholders.

• Maintain up-to-date network diagrams, IP address management records, configuration documentation, standards, operational procedures, and troubleshooting guides.

• Engage in architecture reviews, change management, scheduled maintenance, and continuous improvement initiatives.

• Participate in an on-call rotation to support critical production incidents and planned maintenance activities.

• Lead or contribute to cloud migrations, infrastructure upgrades, office deployments, disaster recovery testing, and enterprise modernization efforts.

• Assist with office openings, relocations, structured cabling, wireless deployments, internet circuits, physical security systems, and related infrastructure projects.

⛳️ Requirements

• Design, implement, and provide support for Microsoft Azure networking solutions, including hub-and-spoke architectures, virtual networks, network security groups, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, ExpressRoute, Private Link, Azure DNS, load balancing, and virtual network peering.

• Design, implement, and support AWS networking solutions, including Virtual Private Clouds, Security Groups, Network ACLs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, site-to-site VPN, Elastic Load Balancing, Route 53, and associated routing services.

• Develop secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available hybrid connectivity among Azure, AWS, corporate offices, remote users, and on-premises data centers.

• Configure, administer, and support enterprise networking technologies, including Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switching, Cisco Meraki, enterprise routing platforms, wireless infrastructure, VPN technologies, load balancers, LAN, WAN, WLAN, and SD-WAN environments.

• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise firewalls, including Palo Alto, Cisco Secure Firewall, Fortinet, or comparable platforms.

• Monitor network availability, health, performance, capacity, and utilization, proactively identifying opportunities to enhance reliability and efficiency.

• Troubleshoot complex issues involving routing, switching, latency, packet loss, VPN connectivity, DNS, application access, firewall policies, and cloud connectivity.

• Collaborate with Information Security to implement Zero Trust networking principles, network segmentation, secure remote access, firewall policies, and cloud security controls.

• Design network solutions that ensure high availability, disaster recovery, and business continuity requirements.

• Automate network provisioning, configuration, and operational tasks using Infrastructure as Code, scripting, configuration management tools, and REST APIs.

• Develop and maintain automation solutions utilizing Terraform, Azure Bicep, ARM templates, AWS CloudFormation, PowerShell, Python, and Ansible.

• Establish standardized, repeatable deployment and configuration processes across cloud and on-premises network environments.

• Lead or take part in cloud migrations, infrastructure upgrades, office deployments, disaster recovery testing, and enterprise modernization efforts.

• Coordinate with cloud providers, internet service providers, data center vendors, and third-party technology partners.

• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to junior IT staff while acting as a subject matter expert.

• Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate certification must be obtained within 90 days of joining if not already certified.

• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.

• The company does not provide employment visa sponsorship.

• A pre-employment background check is required.

• Candidates residing in New York are not eligible for this position.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• HSA and FSA options available.

• 401(k) plan with company matching.

• Paid Wellness Time and Holidays.

• Employer-paid life insurance and long-term disability coverage.

• Opportunities for internal growth and advancement.