Network Engineer

Job Description

Job Description

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