Cloud Engineer

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Job Title: Sr. Cloud Network Engineer (GCP)

Location: Roseland, NJ (Hybrid 3 days onsite)

Type: 12 Months Contact to Hire

Pay: $70/hr. - $80/hr. W-2

Sr. Cloud Network Engineer:

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What You'll Do:

• Cloud Engineering and Implementation: Leading the design Engineering and Implementation of AWS and Azure cloud networking solutions, including public, private, and hybrid cloud Network environments.
• Network Design and Implementation: Designing, implementing, and managing the network infrastructure within GCP cloud environments (AWS/Azure secondary), 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 environment. Module
• 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 employees minimum)
• 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 technological 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 Python
• Prior experience working on network segmentation projects
• Experience with packet analysis and flow monitoring tools
• Experience with cloud deployments such as GCP, and OCI Cloud experience is plus.