Sr. Cloud Network Engineer

Sr. Cloud Network Engineer Local to Newark - NJ (Hybrid, Local only)What You'll Do:Cloud Engineering and Implementation: Leading the design and implementation of GCP cloud networking solutions, including public, private, and hybrid cloud network environments.Network Design and Implementation: Designing, implementing, and managing the network infrastructure within GCP, Azure, and AWS cloud environments, ensuring optimal network performance, security, and scalability.Cloud Orchestration: Automating the deployment, management, and scaling of cloud services to ensure stable operations across multi-cloud environments.Routing: Strong routing protocols knowledge for BGP and OSPF along with Geneve encapsulation.Leadership & Guidance: Serve as a technical leader in a multi-cloud environment, sought after by peers and stakeholders for advice, guidance, and solutions to complex network challenges.Adoption of new technologies and tools, recommend capability improvements, and assist in lab/QA deployments for technology proof of concepts.Participate in all facets of requirements gathering, prioritization, design, development, testing, and execution of network engineering and security requests.Build strong cross-organizational relationships; effectively work with staff across the IT organization and the broader enterprise to align the network security technologies with overall organization needs.Liaise with vendors and service providers to identify and select the products or services that best support the organization's global network strategies.Be a mentor to other team members and lead through example by influencing the use of standards defined by the team and technical leadership.Minimum Requirements:Minimum of 10 years of network security work experience in architecture, design, and engineering.Experience in recommending, designing, implementing, maintaining, state of the art network and application delivery hardware and software systems.Network & infrastructure experience specific to large size organizations (5,000 employee minimum).Experience designing and architecting GCP networks, experience with creating a new region from inception strongly preferred.Experience utilizing Terraform for infrastructure automation.Experience with virtual network environments, datacenter and campus networking technologies, network security technologies like firewall, proxy, VPN, NAC, and application delivery functions like load balancing, CDN, etc.Ability to be flexible, decision oriented, and motivated to support management initiatives.Demonstrate a consultative approach to strategic decisions with a particular emphasis on design and delivery.Hands-on experience in designing and deploying large scale network security technologies to both infrastructure, application, and user populations.Prior experience in multi-vendor networking technologies.Must be proficient in network architecture and design, network security, and network monitoring.Strong documentation and communication skills.Strong foundation in dynamic routing protocols (i.e OSPF, BGP, MP-BGP, VxLAN, EVPN).Experience working with highly effective engineering teams through major technology transitions.Experience working in complex network environments with legacy systems.Preferred:Current or held advanced network or security related certifications (e.g., Cisco, Arista, CISSP, or relevant industry certification, etc.)BS/BA degree in related discipline strongly preferred (i.e Engineering, Computer Science or similar technical degree)Experience or background with automation using Ansible and/or PythonPrior experience working on network segmentation projectsExperience with packet analysis and flow monitoring toolsExperience with cloud deployments such as GCP, and OCI Cloud experience is plus.