Cloud Networking Engineer

Remote

Only W2 - No Corp to Corp

General AWS Proficiency

• Understanding of AWS services like EC2, S3, EFS, IAM, VPC, SSM, KMS, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, Route53

Strong Networking & Network Specific Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)

• Transit Gateway (TGW)
• Virtual Private Networks (VPNs)
• VPC Peering
• VPC Routing and Subnetting
• BGP (Border Gateway Protocol) expertise for potential routing across AWS and multi-cloud environments
• VPC Flow Logs and traffic analysis

Security best practices for networking, including:

• AWS Security Groups
• NACLs / ACLs
• Network segmentation
• DDoS protection / Firewalls
• Ingress/Egress VPC management and traffic flow security

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Terraform expertise for managing AWS networking and security infrastructure
• Experience with AWS Landing Zone Accelerator (LZA)

Automation & Scripting

• Bash and Python scripting skills for automating infrastructure/systems management tasks

Cybersecurity & Compliance

• Network security principles (Zero Trust, IAM best practices, encryption in transit)
• AWS IAM and role-based access control

Nice-to-Have Hard Skills (wants)

Multi-Cloud & Hybrid Networking

• Experience with Azure and/or Google Cloud Platform networking (e.g., Azure VNet, Google Cloud Platform VPC)
• Kubernetes (EKS) & Containerization
• Hashicorp Nomad

Windows Automation & Management

• Active Directory
• Experience with Windows Server automation (PowerShell, Ansible, AWS Systems Manager)

DevOps & CI/CD

• Understanding of GitOps workflows with Terraform

Experience with GitHub Actions or similar (Jenkins, GitLab, CodePipeline)

Advanced Security & Networking

• AWS Network Firewall, GuardDuty, Detective

Soft Skills

• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving ability
• Good documentation and knowledge-sharing habits
• Ability to collaborate across DevOps, Security, and Cloud teams