HYBRID* Cloud Network Engineer Mid
Direct Hire 1099 or W2 only.
The client is not offering subcontracting for this position.
This role is onsite in Irving, TX. Onsite required 3 days per week. This role will require on-call rotation and occasional after-hours change implementation.
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The ideal candidate will be a Cloud Engineering or DevOps Engineer with extensive experience with Enterprise-level networking, or a Network Engineer who has transitioned to the Cloud.
This person will have a passion for eliminating manual processes through automation. In this role, you will deliver solutions for our cloud network and help us evolve our cloud capabilities to meet current and future needs.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES AND DUTIES
- Working as part of the Cloud Engineering and Architecture team, you will help us design, build, monitor and maintain the network from our on-premise networks to our cloud networks in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
- Collaborate to define best practices and guardrails for the Cloud in general, and the network
- Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code for cloud-native services, with a focus on cloud network engineering.
- Ensure capacity planning for current and future network needs and highly available systems to reduce risk for loss of service.
- Contribute to designing cloud architectures that are technically optimized, operationally efficient, and cost-effective.
- Act as a subject matter expert on technologies and trends in cloud-native network solutions.
MUST HAVE SPECIFIC KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS
- 6 years experience in hands-on cloud engineering with Azure and / or AWS and / or OCI, with a significant focus on enterprise-level cloud networking
- Or alternatively 6 years’ enterprise-level network experience with the last two years focusing on cloud networking at the enterprise level.
- Extensive, hands-on experience with network capacity planning and cost-optimized network design, implementation, monitoring, and support at the enterprise level.
- Demonstrable experience solving complex problems within both the cloud and legacy networks for large, complex enterprise environments.
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), such as Terraform, CloudFormation or ARM Templates.
- Hands-on experience monitoring network service levels using observability tools such as SolarWinds, New Relic, Data Dog or similar tools.
- Experience working collaboratively across teams in a hybrid, multi-cloud environment.
- Bachelor Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering or a similar field of study.
ADDITIONAL SKILLS AND OTHER REQUIREMENTS
- 2 or more years’ experience building cloud networks using IaC, with a preference for Terraform.
- Cloud network specialty certification in Azure, AWS and / or OCI
EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
EDUCATION : Bachelors / 4 Yr Degree
YEARS OF RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCE : 6+Years
YEARS OF MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE : N / A
CERTIFICATIONS / LICENSES : Cloud Network certifications preferred