Network Engineer with SRE || Onsite in Phoenix, AZ || W2 & C2C || Need Local to Phoenix, AZ

Role: Network Engineer with SRE

Location: Onsite in Phoenix, AZ

Experience: 10

Role Summary

• We are seeking a Network SRE to ensure the reliability, scalability, and performance of cloud and hybrid network platforms.
• This role applies SRE principles to networking by shifting from manual network operations to automated, observable, and resilient network services.
• The ideal candidate is a network engineer who thinks like a software engineer and SRE.
  
  

Key Responsibilities

• Network Reliability Engineering
• Define SLIs, SLOs, and Error Budgets for network services.
  
  

Design Networks For

• High availability
• Fault tolerance
• Low latency
• Predictable performance
  
  

Improve network reliability while reducing operational toil.Cloud & Hybrid NetworkingArchitect and operate AWS networking:

• VPCs, Subnets, Route Tables
• Transit Gateway
• NAT, IGW
• PrivateLink, VPC Endpoints
  
  

Design hybrid connectivity:

• VPN
• Direct Connect
  
  

Support multi-account and multi-region architectures.Network Observability & MonitoringBuild deep network observability using:

• VPC Flow Logs
• CloudWatch
• Datadog
• Prometheus / Grafana
  
  

Analyze packet loss, latency, and throughput.Implement proactive alerting based on SLOs.Correlate network signals with application performance.Automation & Infrastructure as CodeAutomate network provisioning and changes using:

• Terraform / CloudFormation
  
  

Implement CI/CD for network changes.Reduce manual configuration and human error.Version-control network definitions.Incident Response & TroubleshootingLead network-related incident response.Perform deep root-cause analysis for:

• Packet drops
• Routing issues
• DNS failures
• Load balancer degradation
  
  

Participate in on-call rotation and post-incident reviews.Drive permanent fixes rather than workarounds.Security & Traffic ManagementDesign and enforce:

• Network segmentation
• Zero-Trust principles
• Firewall rules (Security Groups, NACLs)
  
  

Implement secure ingress/egress patterns.Support DDoS protection (AWS Shield, WAF).Work with Security teams on audits and remediation.Performance & Capacity PlanningConduct traffic modeling and capacity forecasting.Tune load balancers (ALB, NLB).Optimize routing and failover strategies.Validate resilience through failure testing.Collaboration & Enablement

Partner With

• Cloud Platform teams
• Application SREs
• Security & Infra teams
  
  

Enable application teams with network best practices.Produce architecture diagrams, runbooks, and SOPs.Influence platform design decisions.Required Skills & Qualifications

Must-Have

• Strong networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, BGP, routing)
• AWS networking expertise
• SRE concepts & practices
• Network observability & monitoring
• Infrastructure as Code
• Production incident handling experience