Cloud Network Engineer

Effectual hires a Cloud Network Engineer for its Professional Services team. The role designs, implements, troubleshoots, and optimizes AWS networking solutions for clients, including cloud and hybrid connectivity, while supporting migration planning and technical delivery.

Responsibilities:

• Enable customers' use of AWS to achieve their business objectives through the design, implementation, and optimization of cloud networking infrastructure
• Deploy Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) resources including subnets, network access control lists, and security groups
• Design, configure, implement, troubleshoot, or support AWS networking and connectivity services, including Transit Gateway, VPC peering, and related interconnect technologies
• Apply knowledge of enterprise networking technologies and protocols, such as Palo Alto or Cisco platforms and BGP, as appropriate to the engagement
• Implement and configure AWS Direct Connect connections
• Deploy, test, diagram, and document development, pre-production, and production environments at the network layer
• Enable and configure AWS VPC flow logs, load balancer logging, and other network visibility tooling
• Leverage resource tagging and network usage data to assist in cost analysis and capacity planning
• Configure AWS networking infrastructure for technical performance, resilience, security, and budgetary efficiency
• Assist in the development of migration plans for network connectivity and services moving from on-premises environments to AWS
• Advise clients on networking changes required to support connectivity to AWS
• Configure on-premises to AWS hybrid networking and confirm connectivity between environments
• Participate in daily delivery-team meetings to review progress, resolve technical dependencies, and align on implementation decisions
• Submit time on assigned projects daily
• Operate with transparency; be responsive to requests from team members for information
• Communicate working preferences and understand the working preferences of others to foster a high-performing team environment
• Additional responsibilities as requested

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience working in a predominantly AWS Cloud networking capacity (AWS experience must have been within the last 2 years)
• 3+ years of experience delivering network or cloud infrastructure solutions in a customer-facing environment
• 1+ year of experience supporting work delivered in a cloud environment (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Strong working knowledge of leading AWS cloud security practices, particularly as they apply to networking
• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform / AWS CloudFormation)
• Experience working within structured infrastructure delivery, change-management, and documentation processes
• Ability to work with multiple clients in parallel
• Attention to detail
• Exceptional communication and time management
• Multi-cloud experience (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with network automation and scripting (Python, Bash, Ansible)
• Familiarity with compliance frameworks (PCI-DSS, HIPAA, FedRAMP)
• AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect – Associate
• AWS Certified Developer – Associate
• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator – Associate
• Networking certifications (CCNA, CCNP, PCCSE, PCNSE)
• Prior experience using Mavenlink
• Project management certification(s) (e.g.: PMP)