Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Gentis Solutions is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer for a full-time remote position with a Fortune 50 company. The ideal candidate will possess an advanced understanding of network engineering and IT infrastructure. If you are qualified, and you seek to work at a company recognized for its diversity and inclusion, its work to drive positive social change, and as an environmental leader, make sure you apply.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in support and/or engineering for the specific technical discipline
• 5-7 years of experience in network engineering and IT infrastructure
• 2+ years of experience with cloud platforms such as Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud Platform
• Excellent communication and presentation skills to effectively communicate information to customers and all levels within the organization
• Proven ability to understand company business problems and identify technical solutions
• Excellent working knowledge of TCP/IP networks, including cloud-specific aspects
• Practical working knowledge of load-balancing concepts, global traffic management, and public/private IP routing technologies
• Demonstrated experience of core network engineering & network security methodologies, concepts and tools, including
  • Azure & GCP VPC & Network Security concepts and capabilities
  • Firewalls & NetSec Concepts (Palo Alto, Checkpoint)
  • SIEM Integration
  • HTTP/HTTPS
  • DNS
• Experience with core cloud network interconnect technologies, including
  • Azure ExpressRoute
  • GCP Interconnect
  • Equinix Cloud Exchange Services
  • BGP 
• Experience with Infrastructure as code concepts (ideally Terraform) and CI/CD pipelines
• Experience with DevOps concepts and Agile software development methodologies.
• Great diagramming and documentation skills with a mindset of re-usability and supportability

Desirable Skills

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems or related equivalent work experience
• Relevant Cloud and/or Network industry certifications considered a plus
• Certification within Infrastructure Discipline
• Any experience in coordinating and working on multiple cross-functional base work initiatives and projects
• Any experience in diagnosing and resolving complex hardware, software and connectivity problems
• Any experience in leading enterprise base work initiatives and projects
• Ability to develop enhanced production monitoring and additional capability

Typical Duties

• Design and implement overall infrastructure project components with infrastructure teams, ensuring that overall solution is designed to meet SLA, DR, monitoring, security and scalability needs required by the solution
• Ensure that post-production operational processes/deliverables are well designed and implemented prior to the project moving into the solution support phase
• Generate scripts and templates required for the automatic provisioning of resources, on prem, cloud and distributed
• Discover, install and execute processes and standards for optimal use of cloud service provider offerings
• Debug technical issues inside a complex stack involving virtualization, containers and microservices
• Collaborate with engineering teams to enable their applications to run on Cloud infrastructure
• Define and create operational procedures, processes and scripts
• Ensure secure operations of infrastructure technologies (security updates, vulnerability management, role access management, configuration hardening)
• Assist in the evaluation, selection, and implementation of new technologies to ensure adherence to architecture guidelines
• Evaluate vendor technical and support capabilities
• Provide technical leadership on enterprise work and establishing standards/guidelines
• Define improvements, increased system reliability and performance
• Design, implement and support multiple complex systems or applications with multiple concurrent users, ensuring control, integrity, and accessibility
• Support and maintain infrastructure solutions utilizing required tools and technologies
• Provide off-hours support (24 x 7) as required
• Must be able to perform the essential job functions of this position with or without reasonable accommodation