VP, Cloud Network Engineering Lead

Role can be based in: Tampa, FL or Tempe, AZ or Jersey City, NJ

This role is responsible for delivering major transformational initiatives, including AWS Landing Zone deployment, application migration, and multi-cloud rationalization. The position involves designing and executing operational objectives by engineering, evaluating, recommending, testing, and implementing plans for both current and emerging network technologies. Key responsibilities include contributing to strategic planning and reviews, developing cost-effective network designs aligned with MUFG and industry best practices, resolving technical issues, conducting audits, addressing vulnerabilities, identifying trends, recommending network improvements, and driving change implementation.

As a Lead Cloud Network Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining MUFG’s network infrastructure across cloud environments and on-premises data centers. You will collaborate closely with teams in Architecture, Cloud & Compute Engineering, Security, Risk, and Development, as well as business stakeholders, to design and build a highly scalable and resilient network infrastructure that ensures continuous availability. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strategic influence, strong collaboration skills, and deep expertise in enterprise-scale network engineering, implementation, and automation.

This is a hands-on VP, Cloud Network Engineering Lead role.

Major Responsibilities:

• Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure, Load balancing, DNS, and IPAM
• Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
• Leverage automation tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Python scripting to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
• Drive improvements in network performance to support various business services
• Must be able to leverage tools (logic-monitor, flow logs, CloudWatch, Netbrain, SolarWinds, and Wireshark, etc.) and automation/scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python) to troubleshoot routing, load balancing, DNS, infrastructure and application performance issues, find and improve bottlenecks
• Be able to design, configure, deploy, and troubleshoot LTMs/GTMs, ALBs, NLBs, and GLBs, Route53, Infoblox DNS, and IPAM.
• Be able to support audit, vulnerability, and compliance related efforts.
• Familiar with project delivery methodologies related to network infrastructure.
• Work with the team to evolve the long-term architecture in collaboration with stakeholders, partners, and customers; participate in developing the ongoing strategic vision.
• Be able to evaluate emerging technologies on an ongoing basis, identify needs and be able to make recommendations for new technologies and vendor solutions based on network vision and strategy, leveraging latest industry developments.
• Embed Information Security and Risk Management principles within culture requiring continuous improvement to complex functions to coordinate security and compliance risks related to information systems and assets. Able to drive coordination, consensus, and execution to mitigate risk, issues, and emerging threats in mission-critical environments.
• Ability to maintain excellent network documentation using Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Excellent verbal / written communication skills a must.
• Must be able to support weekend / after-hours network deployments and escalations to troubleshoot production issues.
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Qualifications:

• 8-10 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, with a focus on network engineering and troubleshooting Expert level proficiency in multiple cloud disciplines and on-premises network, covering technical architecture, network management, observability, core network infrastructure, LTMs/GTMs, ALBs, NLBs, GLBs, Route53, and Infoblox DNS, IPAM, and network security
• 5 years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible for resource provisioning and management
• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Cloud-WAN/Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
• Must be able to determine business requirements and provide detailed designs.
• Proficient in developing automation scripts and command-line tools using high-level programming languages such as Terraform, Ansible and Python, aimed at streamlining workflows and enhancing developer productivity.
• Experience in zero trust environments
• Experience with Network Management and Analytical tools such as Datadog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, CloudWatch, SolarWinds, Netbrain, and Wireshark
• Strong grasp of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, application rationalization, performance optimization, and networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, VRFs, OSPF, and BGP, etc.), with a focus on building scalable and resilient infrastructure.
• Strong collaboration skills for effective communication with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, security, risk, and business stakeholders.
• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills.

Education, Certifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, Computer Science, Internetworking, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Information Systems Engineering (or foreign equivalent degree
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking and/or Solution Architect
• CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) Certification would be a big plus.