Cloud Network Engineer

Role: Cloud Network Engineer
Location: Libertyville, IL ( Onsite-5 days in a week onsite)
Duration: Contract to Hire


Cloud Engineering / Networking Responsibilities:
Develop, Design and implement- Azure Cloud Services: Azure Virtual Machines, App Services, AKS, Functions, Storage, Monitor
Develop, Design and implement VNETs, Subnets, NSGs, Azure Firewall, VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, SDWAN and network solutions
Automation & DevOps -Design and implement support for ARM Templates, Terraform, PowerShell, CI/CD Pipelines
Performance & Cost Optimization - Autoscaling, Load Balancing, Reserved Instances
Design for scalability, reliability, availability, and security of systems.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize performance and maintain resilient systems.
Investigate and evaluate market and technology trends
Foster a collaborative troubleshooting environment.
Project Management:
Lead infrastructure projects (e.g., Cloud integrations, system deployments, network upgrades).
Define project scope, timelines, and resource allocation.
Monitor progress and address any issues.
Security and Compliance:
Implement and adhere to and enforce security policies and best practices.
Ensure compliance with industry standards (e.g., ISO, NIST).
Remediate vulnerabilities and provide systems built with security by design.
Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture
Support Identity & Access Management Standards, Azure AD, RBAC
Vendor Management:
Evaluate technology vendors and ensure services and service levels are defined and considered.
Maintain vendor relationships and monitor service levels.
Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity:
Plan and test disaster recovery procedures.
Minimize downtime during critical incidents.
Azure Site Recovery, Backup, Geo Redundancy


System / Networking Assessment Responsibilities:
Review and assess the enterprise network landscape including LAN, WAN, Fiber and Voice.
Evaluate on-prem and cloud network security posture.
Assess server and compute platforms across on-prem and cloud environments.
Review storage, backup, restore and disaster recovery solutions.
Document consolidated findings, and recommendations for the above.
Create Network Assessment Report - Architecture and configuration details of network Devices
Create Server Assessment Report - Capacity, performance, availability details of On-prem and cloud servers
Create Security Assessment Report - Identified risks and vulnerabilities on network, server, access control & firewall.