About the company
This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Dedicated Sr Cloud Network Engineer based in United States.
Responsibilities
- Take complete ownership and accountability for assigned cloud networking responsibilities, ensuring reliable and effective customer support.
- Lead complex network troubleshooting during incidents and drive issues to resolution within established SLA commitments.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide timely support for critical infrastructure events.
- Triage incidents, service requests, and change tickets for enterprise cloud infrastructure and disaster recovery customers.
- Configure, administer, and troubleshoot switches, firewalls, load balancers, IPsec VPNs, WANs, and related networking technologies.
- Implement and maintain network security hardware and software while enforcing established security policies and controls.
- Plan and execute network changes associated with incidents, customer requests, lifecycle activities, implementations, and decommissioning projects, including changes scheduled outside normal business hours.
- Create and maintain detailed technical documentation, including knowledge-base content, network diagrams, custom reports, platform-specific build and support documentation, and Customer Design Requirements.
- Support the preparation of detailed Service Incident Reports, including root-cause analysis and preventative recommendations for high- and critical-severity incidents.
- Provide overflow support for cloud services deployment engineering and expert-level guidance to network solution architects on customer network designs.
- Stay current with networking and infrastructure technologies, particularly within Cisco, F5, and VMware ecosystems, while pursuing relevant advanced certifications.
- Follow established service-management practices and collaborate effectively with engineering, support, architecture, and other internal teams.
- Handle company and customer information responsibly in accordance with data-handling requirements, privacy practices, security procedures, and compliance policies.
- Identify opportunities to improve support processes, network reliability, documentation, and operational efficiency.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- 10+ years of recent, hands-on experience as a Cisco-based network engineer supporting complex enterprise environments.
- Cisco CCNP or CCIE certification with demonstrated professional experience.
- Extensive experience supporting and implementing global data center environments and enterprise-scale, highly available, mission-critical network infrastructure.
- Strong experience with VMware virtualization clusters and software-defined networking, including VMware NSX.
- Expert-level experience with Cisco Nexus, Catalyst, ASA/ASR, and F5 LTM, APM, and ASM platforms, combined with advanced troubleshooting capabilities.
- Expert knowledge of internet routing protocols, particularly BGP and OSPF.
- Experience with additional networking technologies such as Citrix, FortiGate, NetScaler, SonicWall, and Juniper is preferred.
- Experience in consulting or other enterprise customer-facing technical support environments is highly desirable.
- Senior-level experience designing network architectures and developing network topologies for diverse and complex environments.
- Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical issues, recommendations, and solutions clearly to customers and internal stakeholders.
- Demonstrated ability to work independently, prioritize responsibilities, and consistently drive assigned tasks toward positive outcomes.
- High energy, professional judgment, positive attitude, adaptability, and a commitment to continued technical growth.
- U.S. citizenship is required.
Conditions
- Full-time position with a remote work environment.
- Customer-facing opportunity supporting complex enterprise cloud and disaster recovery environments.
- Exposure to advanced Cisco, F5, VMware, and software-defined networking technologies.
- Opportunities to pursue advanced technical certifications and continue developing expertise across evolving infrastructure technologies.
- Opportunity to collaborate with network architects, engineering teams, deployment specialists, and enterprise customers.
- Participation in work involving mission-critical, highly available network infrastructure and complex technical environments.
- Supportive environment focused on professional growth, technical excellence, and continuous improvement.
- Reasonable accommodations are available to qualified individuals with disabilities to enable them to perform essential job functions.