IT Network Engineer

Stamford, CT
Accolite – Technology /
Contract /
Remote
Position: Network Engineer
Start Date: - Immediate
Minimum Term: - 6 months with possible extension

Role Description:
The Network Engineer is a member of the IT Infrastructure Team who leverages extensive experience in Information Systems to design, implement, and maintain computer networks, enabling communication and data transfer within the organization. The Network Engineer proposes and promotes standards and works closely with other IT practice leads to ensure adoption of secure designs and practices.

Candidate must have strong hands-on technical background, and should enjoy troubleshooting issues, designing,
and implementing network security measures suitable with modern solutions. Candidate must be highly collaborative and is expected to mentor/partner with other teams on a regular basis.

Specific responsibilities:
 Manage and maintain global On-prem/cloud network for high performance, uptime, and availability
 Maintain Infrastructure as Code
 Codify and implement planned network changes through code deployments
 Upgrade infrastructure via code changes as required to improve performance and to address Tech Debt
 Manage & tune observability for early, proactive identification and remediation of potential issues
 Monitor cloud network capacity and performance and address issues proactively
 Manage and respond to network incidents, escalating problems to appropriate team members or vendors as required
 Lead a team of cloud network engineers to deliver projects with high quality and in a timely manner
 Assist in audit & compliance activities by providing required evidence and input
 Lead periodic disaster recovery testing of the cloud network
 Work collaboratively with other teams, departments, or vendors to ensure the network supports the
organization needs
 Demonstrate flexibility in your approach, remain level-headed under pressure, and communicate
effectively at different levels and across regions
 Available to travel frequently (10 to 15% of the time )

Experience/Skills Required:
 7+ years' experience in networking & cloud engineering
• Recent, expert level experience in managing public cloud network,
• High degree of expertise in Cloud networking - Virtual Networks, NSGs, Transit Gateways, DNS, Traffic Manager, Route 53, Express Routes, Cloud WANs, SDWAN etc
• Hands-on expertise and experience with Terraform (or similar)
• Hands on experience in CI/CD & Azure DevOps
• Experience in working with monitoring, complex troubleshooting & debugging, supporting public cloud networks
• Experience in cloud network security technologies
• Practical experience with network protocols, IP Addressing, DDI (Schemas, VLANS, DNS, DHCP, IPAM), SolarWinds, PRTG
• Experience with wireless technologies
• Experience with Ansible
• Experience with Automation

Education Required:
 Bachelor degree in computer science, information systems or other related field, or equivalent
work experience.
 Architecture and networking specialty certifications in Azure and/or AWS
 Advanced Cloud networking certifications with either AWS or Azure