Overview
Remote
$50 - $60
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2
Skills
Amazon Route 53
Amazon Web Services
Cisco
HTTP
HTTPS
High Availability
IDS
Dragon NaturallySpeaking
IPS
DNS
DevOps
TLS
TCP/IP
Job Details
Role Overview
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 .
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