Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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UltraViolet Cyber is a leading platform-enabled unified security operations company providing a comprehensive suite of security operations solutions. Founded and operated by security practitioners with decades of experience, the UltraViolet Cyber security-as-code platform combines technology innovation and human expertise to make advanced real-time cybersecurity accessible for all organizations by eliminating risks of separate red and blue teams.

By creating continuously optimized identification, detection, and resilience from today’s dynamic threat landscape, UltraViolet Cyber provides both managed and custom-tailored unified security operations solutions to the Fortune 500, Federal Government, and Commercial clients. UltraViolet Cyber is headquartered in McLean, Virginia, with global offices across the U.S. and in India.

We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Engineer to design, implement, optimize, and support enterprise-scale cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI). This role will serve as a technical leader responsible for designing resilient, secure, and scalable cloud networking architectures while enabling application teams through automation, DevOps practices, and cloud-native services.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Azure and OCI networking, hybrid connectivity, cloud security, and infrastructure deployment. This individual will work closely with application developers, architects, security engineers, and operations teams to deliver highly available cloud solutions that support critical business applications.

What You'll Do:

Cloud Architecture & Engineering

• Design, deploy, and manage secure, scalable cloud infrastructure across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI).
• Develop highly available and fault-tolerant solutions utilizing regional redundancy, availability zones, and disaster recovery best practices.
• Evaluate workload sizing, cloud compute requirements, and infrastructure optimization opportunities.
• Lead cloud networking architecture initiatives for hybrid, multi-cloud, and on-premises integration scenarios.
• Support cloud migration, modernization, and transformation efforts across enterprise environments.

Cloud Networking

• Design and implement advanced networking solutions, including routing, segmentation, connectivity, DNS, and traffic management.
• Establish and maintain secure network connectivity between cloud providers, enterprise data centers, and third-party platforms.
• Troubleshoot complex application and network traffic flows across cloud, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.
• Analyze and optimize east-west and north-south network traffic patterns to improve reliability, performance, and security.

DevOps & Automation

• Collaborate with DevOps teams to implement and improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation.
• Support infrastructure-as-code and automated cloud provisioning practices.
• Integrate cloud services with third-party orchestration platforms and SaaS/PaaS solutions.
• Participate in cloud platform standardization, governance, and operational excellence initiatives.

Security & Compliance

• Implement cloud security best practices across network paths, public endpoints, application exposure, and service integrations.
• Partner with security teams to design secure cloud architectures and connectivity patterns.
• Validate secure access controls, segmentation policies, DNS security, and network inspection requirements.
• Participate in threat mitigation, vulnerability remediation, and compliance initiatives.

Cross-Functional Collaboration

• Partner with application teams, architects, and security engineers to support scalable cloud deployments.
• Provide technical leadership during architecture reviews, troubleshooting efforts, and cloud adoption initiatives.
• Develop architecture documentation, operational runbooks, and engineering standards.

What You Have:

• US Citizenship is required upon hire

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• 7+ years of infrastructure, networking, and cloud engineering experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on experience designing and supporting Microsoft Azure and/or Oracle Cloud Infrastructure environments.
• Strong understanding of cloud networking, hybrid connectivity, DNS, routing, firewall design, and network security.
• Demonstrated experience supporting enterprise-scale cloud deployments in highly available environments.
• Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and communication skills.
• Experience collaborating with engineering, architecture, and security teams in complex enterprise environments.

Technical RequirementsCloud Engineering & Architecture

• Cloud compute architecture and workload sizing
• Hybrid and multi-cloud connectivity
• Cloud-native networking services
• Availability Zones and regional resiliency design
• Disaster recovery and fault-tolerant architectures
• Cloud service integration and orchestration
• Application traffic flow analysis and troubleshooting
• DevOps practices and CI/CD pipeline integration

Microsoft Azure Expertise

Hands-on experience designing and supporting Azure infrastructure, including:

Networking

• Virtual Networks (VNet)
• User Defined Routes (UDR)
• Network Security Groups (NSG)
• Internal Load Balancers (ILB)
• Azure DNS
• Network Virtual Appliances (NVA)
• ExpressRoute
• BGP routing and propagation
• Global VNet Peering

Azure Services

• Azure API Management (APIM)
• Application Gateway (App Gateway)
• Azure Function Apps with VNet Integration
• Azure Data Lake
• Private DNS Zones
• DNS Proxy Architectures
• Azure Firewall
• Azure Virtual WAN (VWAN)
• Private Endpoints
• Service Endpoints
• Azure Load Balancers

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) Expertise

Hands-on experience designing and supporting OCI infrastructure, including:

Networking

• Virtual Cloud Networks (VCN)
• Route Tables
• Local Peering Gateways (LPG)
• Dynamic Routing Gateways (DRG)
• Route Redistribution
• Inter-region Traffic Steering
• OCI Layer 4 and Layer 7 Load Balancers
• OCI Private DNS
• Network Virtual Appliances (NVA)
• FastConnect
• BGP Routing
• Remote Peering Connections (RPC)

OCI Services

• Private DNS Zones
• DNS Proxy Architectures
• Private Endpoints
• Service Gateway
• OCI Load Balancers
• OCI Identity and Access Management (IAM)
• Compartments
• OCI Landing Zone Architecture
• Oracle application flow troubleshooting including:
  • Oracle Databases
  • GoldenGate
  • OCI AI/ML Services

Preferred Qualifications:

Connectivity & Colocation

Experience with:

• Equinix Fabric
• Network Edge
• Cloud on-ramp architectures
• Bring Your Own Carrier (BYOC)
• Service provider-grade BGP routing
• Overlay and underlay network deployments

Firewalls & Security Platforms

Experience designing, deploying, and troubleshooting:

• Palo Alto Networks VM-Series
• Palo Alto Network Virtual Appliances (NVA)
• Active/Active and Active/Passive HA designs
• Palo Alto Prisma

Application Security

Experience with Imperva solutions including:

• Advanced Bot Protection (ABP)
• Account Takeover Protection (ATO)
• Cloud WAF (CWAF)
• DDoS mitigation
• Policy development
• Site onboarding
• TLS/Certificate management
• CDN configuration and optimization

Enterprise Networking

CCNP-level networking knowledge or equivalent experience with:

• Cisco Catalyst WAN Edge Routers
• Cisco CSR1000v
• Cisco Catalyst 8000v
• Cisco Catalyst Center
• Cisco ThousandEyes
• Cisco Smart Licensing
• Arista Spine/Leaf architectures
• Juniper MX platforms
• Infoblox DDI
• Infoblox vNIOS

UltraViolet Cyber maintains broad salary ranges for its roles in order to account for variations in knowledge, skills, experience, market conditions and locations, as well as reflect our company's differing products, services, industries and lines of business. Candidates are typically placed into the range based on the preceding factors.

We sincerely thank all applicants in advance for submitting their interest in this position. We know your time is valuable.

UltraViolet Cyber welcomes and encourages diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status. 

If you want to make an impact, UltraViolet Cyber is the place for you!

We may use artificial intelligence (AI) tools to support parts of the hiring process, such as reviewing applications, analyzing resumes, or assessing responses and identifying potential inconsistencies or verification signals in application materials based on available information. These tools assist our recruitment team but do not replace human judgment. Final hiring decisions are ultimately made by humans. If you would like more information about how your data is processed, please contact us.