Job Description
Job Description Job Description 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