Cloud Network Engineer

Overview

The Cloud Network Engineer is responsible for the implementation, and optimization of cloud infrastructure and services to ensure scalability, security, and efficiency. This role involves working closely with internal teams and external vendors to support business objectives and maintain high-performance cloud environments.

The Cloud Systems Engineer will collaborate with cloud architects, DevOps teams, and IT personnel to manage cloud operations, automate workflows, and optimize cloud performance. Key technical areas include cloud platform management, infrastructure as code (IaC), automation, cloud security, containerization, and cloud networking.

Responsibilities

Leadership:

• Foster technical and procedural excellence within the IT department for all applicable production systems and processes
• Foster technical knowledge, design, and engineering excellence within the IT department
• Ensure systemic problems, sensitive customer situations, or unresolved customer Requests are escalated and distributed to IT management in a timely manner
• Recommend implementation standards

Customer and System Support:

• Keep IT management apprised of critical issues
• Identify, correlate, escalate, and manage Problems
• Ensure local Service Delivery approach, processes, and procedures are aligned with organizational standards
• Collaborate with End User Services to ensure requests, incidents, and problems are handled in a timely manner and customer service expectations are met

Design, Engineering, and Innovation:

• Facilitate the acquisition and integration of new technology into the environment
• Identify and recommend new technology value to the organization
• Research technical concepts and educate other team members as needed
• Present research / proposed projects to IT management
• Participate in technology evaluations
• Provide expertise on application integration, design, security, reliability
• Collaboration with other design teams within IT

Monitoring & Optimization:

• Recommend improvements to systems and IT support process
• Recommend implementation standards
• Define implementation standards

Documentation & Knowledge Management:

• Develop quality documentation of technical processes and procedures
• Document all ticket and project work
• Ensure documentation is sufficient to yield reproducible results
• Identify and recommend changes with existing documentation that impacts customer support
• Identify, track, any resolve gaps in existing documentation
• Assist in policy, security, and compliance documentation efforts when agreed upon
• Champion quality documentation of technical processes and procedures
• Lead knowledge transfer activities between teams

Project Delivery:

• Track and complete assigned IT projects
• Complete tasks in a timely and quality fashion
• Adhere to implementation, quality control, and change control standards
• Keep IT management apprised of risks to project success
• Ensure that projects are delivered on-time, within scope and within budget
• Coordinate internal resources and 3rd party/vendors for efficient execution

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience in network engineering or network administration, with a strong foundation in operating systems, networking protocols, and storage systems.
• Proven expertise in AWS networking services, including the design and implementation of highly available, secure, and scalable cloud network architectures.
• Strong understanding of core networking concepts, including WAN, BGP, routing, VPNs, and hybrid cloud connectivity.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in a collaborative, team-oriented environment, with a proactive and solutions-focused mindset.
• Excellent communication skills, including written, verbal, and presentation abilities, with the capacity to convey complex technical concepts to diverse audiences.
• Detail-oriented and customer-focused, with a strong sense of ownership, initiative, and a track record of delivering results in dynamic environments.

Desired Qualifications

• In-depth experience with AWS services, including IAM, EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda, VPC, ECS/EKS, Elastic Beanstalk, and Migration Services, with a focus on building secure, resilient, and scalable cloud solutions.
• Strong presentation skills, with the ability to effectively communicate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Proven experience leading and managing engineering teams, including full-time employees, in fast-paced environments.
• Hands-on experience with modern DevOps practices and scripting/programming languages, such as Ruby, Python, Perl, and PowerShell.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate or Professional, or equivalent cloud certification.

Special demands:

This position may require travel on an as-needed basis to domestic and international company locations, data centers, and training events.

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Salary Range: $86,500- $117,000

Financial offer within the stated range will be based on multiple factors to include but not limited to location, relevant experience/level and skillset.

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