Network Engineer

Network Engineer
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Employment type: C2C

Job Summary:
We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer with deep expertise in AWS cloud networking, strong SRE principles, and an observability-first mindset. This role focuses on building resilient, scalable, and secure network platforms while ensuring high availability and operational reliability.

Key Responsibilities
Design and manage AWS network architectures (VPCs, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPN, Route 53, ALB/NLB).
Implement SRE best practices: SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and incident response.
Build and maintain highly available and fault-tolerant network systems.
Automate network provisioning using IaC (Terraform, CloudFormation).
Integrate observability tools (CloudWatch, Datadog, Splunk, OpenTelemetry) for network monitoring and alerting.
Optimize network performance, cost, and security.
Lead incident triage, root cause analysis, and postmortems.
Collaborate with security, DevOps, and platform engineering teams.
Enforce AWS security best practices (NACLs, Security Groups, WAF, Shield).

Required Skills
AWS Networking (VPC, TGW, DX, VPN, ELB, Route 53)
TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, Load Balancing
Observability & Monitoring (metrics, logs, traces)
SRE concepts (MTTR, reliability engineering)
Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
Incident management & on-call experience

Nice to Have
Multi-account AWS networking
Zero Trust / Network Security Architecture
Kubernetes networking (EKS, CNI, Ingress)
FinOps-aware network optimization

Flexible work from home options available.