Network Engineering Lead

SAIC is a technology company focused on providing solutions in information technology and engineering. They are seeking a Lead Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate multi-cloud network infrastructures, ensuring seamless connectivity and high performance across various platforms.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and maintain robust multi-cloud network infrastructure, ensuring connectivity between platforms such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI
• Design and implement advanced features such as Virtual Private Clouds (VPCs), hybrid connectivity using VPN and dedicated interconnects, cloud routing, and peering configurations across platforms
• Leverage advanced network topologies to optimize latency, throughput, and resilience in cloud environments
• Oversee cloud network segmentation strategies, including advanced usage of subnets, transit gateways, and virtual network appliances to meet performance and security requirements
• Design and manage secure cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-on-premises connectivity, including AWS Transit Gateway, Azure Virtual WAN, or OCI FastConnect architectures
• Oversee deployment of software-defined networking (SDN) configurations, ensuring scalability and policy-driven automation for cloud networking
• Automate hybrid cloud infrastructure deployments through Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), leveraging tools such as Terraform to efficiently provision resources like security groups, load balancers, and virtual private gateways
• Design and implement cloud-native load balancing solutions, such as GCP’s HTTPS Load Balancers, OCI’s Load Balancer, Azure Application Gateway, or AWS Elastic Load Balancers (ELBs), ensuring high availability and performance
• Configure modern identity and access controls (e.g., IAM policies for per-resource networking rules) to ensure that network infrastructure aligns with zero-trust security principles
• Implement cloud network firewalls, such as Palo Alto VM-Series, native AWS Network Firewalls, Azure Firewall, OCI Network Firewall, or GCP Cloud Firewalls, to secure traffic at every layer
• Design and enforce cloud-specific security best practices, including encryption of data in transit, secure API management, and IAM monitoring to prevent unauthorized access
• Lead audits and ensure compliance with DoD STIGs, organizational security mandates, and cybersecurity frameworks (e.g., IA Vulnerability Management)
• Lead and mentor a growing team of cloud network engineers, providing technical guidance, project management, and career development opportunities
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (security, DevOps, architecture) to implement scalable cloud solutions while fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement
• Define and drive strategic initiatives for cloud-first network architectures, ensuring alignment with rapidly evolving business and technical requirements
• Act as the trusted technical advisor for cloud networking issues, stepping in as the subject matter expert during escalations
• Proactively monitor cloud network health metrics, leverage telemetry and observability tools (e.g., GCP Monitoring, OCI Observability, and AWS CloudWatch) for early detection of issues and define capacity planning benchmarks
• Partner with the cloud operations team to deliver robust disaster recovery solutions and high-availability designs for mission-critical systems
• Execute lifecycle management activities, including firewall rule updates, patch rollouts, and resource optimizations, with minimal downtime
• Resolve intricate issues with advanced diagnostic tools (NetFlow analysis, packet captures, and cloud-native traffic analyzers, such as VPC Flow Logs)

Requirements:

• Bs and 9+ years of enterprise network engineering experience with at least 3–5 years in leading cloud-native network architectures (4 years in lieu of degree)
• Ideal candidates will have extensive hands-on expertise in cloud networking coupled with leadership experience in driving large-scale, secure network deployments
• Expertise in multi-cloud networking (AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI) and hybrid designs connecting on-prem and cloud resources. Our customers operate in the cloud, but we assist with network connections for their existing on-prem interconnects
• In-depth knowledge of TCP/IP stack, DNS architectures, BGP configurations, NSGs, and FWaaS (Firewall-as-a-Service)
• Demonstrated experience with cloud-native connectivity patterns, such as inter-region peering, global VPCs, SD-WAN for cloud, and transit connectivity hubs
• Proven track record of mentoring, growing, and leading teams of 5 engineers
• Experience communicating complex cloud-networking designs to directors and stakeholders
• Hands-on skills with Terraform or similar IaC tools for network automation
• Proficiency with cloud monitoring platforms such as AWS CloudWatch, Datadog, or GCP Monitoring for observability
• Participation in 24/7 on-call rotations as the escalation point for critical network issues
• Must be comfortable leading technical initiatives with strict DoD STIG compliance and ensuring Public Trust clearance requirements are met
• AWS Advanced Networking, Palo Alto Networks PCNSE, or Google Cloud Network Engineer