Responsibilities: 

Develop networking solutions for SaaS/PaaS applications that reside in private cloud, public cloud or both.  Design and implement network architecture for our cloud-based systems, including virtual private networks (VPNs), subnets, routing tables, and security groups.  Understand the ‘big picture’ to develop solutions that will integrate smoothly, provide high availability, and follow standards and security policy.  Respond to technical issues in a professional and timely manner.  Offer guidance in infrastructure movement techniques including bulk application transfers into the cloud.  Ensure the network infrastructure is optimized for performance and cost-efficiency.  Monitor and analyze network performance and availability, and proactively address any issues. Work with application engineering, devops, operations and clients to identify connectivity requirements. Understand end to end network traffic flows.  Develop and document new standards for network deployments.  Work independently, plan your work, lead networking discussions with other teams, vendors and clients.  Provide leadership and coaching for deployment teams and network operations.  Develop and maintain Automation for NWaaS requirements of the Cloud Ops teams Ensure Production Uptime SLA for Networking Services 

 

Requirements: 

➢ Bachelor's degree in computer science, computer engineering, information technology, or relevant field. 

➢ 10+ years of experience designing, executing, and supporting IT cloud solutions. 

➢ Relevant certifications (e.g. AWS Advanced Networking Certificate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect, Cisco CCNA/CCNP, CCIE, etc) are a plus. 

➢   AWS Advanced Networking Certificate Preferred

➢ Strong understanding of cloud networking technologies and protocols, such as TCP/IP, DNS, and load balancing. 

➢ Knowledge of network security practices, including firewalls, intrusion detection/prevention systems, and encryption. 

➢ Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. 

➢ Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work optimally with multi-functional teams. 

➢ Positive attitude and a strong commitment to delivering quality work. 

➢ Excellent knowledge of cloud computing technologies and current computing trends. 

➢ Solid Knowledge with monitoring/observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch

➢ Solid Knowledge with VLAN, SDN, IPVS,  OSI Layer 4 to 7: load balancers, proxies, API gateways, DNS, CNI, TLS, and HTTP protocol

➢ Familiarity with network proxies such as Envoy/HAProxy/Nginx

➢ Hand on Automation/orchestration experience using any of the following: Ansible, Python, YAML, Go - Lang, Terraform, Helm and others