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
Flexible work from home options available.