Cloud Network Engineer (3933)

Smx Corporation Limited - Washington, DC

Full-time - Mid Level

Remote - Washington, DC

Administrative and Support Services

About the position

The Cloud Network Engineer at SMX is responsible for designing and implementing cloud solutions using AWS technologies while ensuring adherence to Zero Trust architecture and best practices. This role involves collaboration with cloud architects and security experts to create innovative solutions that support cloud orchestration and automation. The position is remote but requires working EST hours and may involve off-hours work based on client needs.

Responsibilities

• Designing, planning and implementing client-specific cloud solutions
• Applying strong IP network knowledge as a cloud engineer
• Ensuring the cloud network is responsive to user demands and meets Zero Trust Network Architecture
• Scaling cloud services to serve growing businesses
• Designing, building, and maintaining the network infrastructure of a cloud-based system
• Working closely with IT teams to ensure that cloud resources are provisioned, managed, and maintained in an efficient and secure manner
• Taking responsibility for the design/architecture, definition and enforcement of standards; security, sustainability, and deployment, and operations of its current and future networks.

Requirements

• Dedication to innovative, sophisticated designs and collaborative problem-solving
• Demonstrated engineering experience in designing and implementing efficient, secure, scalable, repeatable, and best practice solutions
• Demonstrated ownership of timely incident identification, resolution and ticket updates
• Strong collaboration and communication skills
• Experience in both AWS and Azure as well as traditional IT hardware/virtualization
• IP network proficiency with subnetting, CIDR notation, static routing, dynamic routing (RIP, BGP, OSPF), firewalls, WAF, proxy, DMZ architecture
• Working knowledge of protocols at various layers of OSI networking model (i.e. HTTP/S, FTP/S, SSH, DNS, SMTP, STARTTLS, DNSSEC…)
• Working knowledge of certificates and fundamentals of PKI
• Server administration experience - Linux or Windows

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering or related area
• 5-10 years of IT experience with 3+ years of experience with AWS
• 3+ years of experience with Azure
• AWS SA-Associate or Ops Associate Certification or Azure Networks Certificate a plus
• IPv6 Knowledge is a plus
• AWS or Azure use with and certifications in Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Brocade and other network vendors is a plus
• CompTIA Network+ or Security+ Certification is a plus

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Paid leave
• Retirement