Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Parsons Corporation
Reston, VA, United States
3 days ago
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Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Compensation
$176,900.0 - $332,400.0
Working hours
Regular working hours

Tech stack

Border Gateway Protocol Cisco PIX Cloud Computing Continuous Integration Network Address Translation Domain Name System (DNS) Failover Internet Protocol Internet Protocol Security (IP SEC) Virtual Private Networks (VPN) Python (Programming Language) Network Security
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Networking Basics Routing Network Virtualization Ansible Systems Integration Wide Area Networks Cloud-native Network Functions (CNF) Grafana Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) Information Technology Fortinet Route53 Firepower Kibana Terraform Open Network Automation Platform

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or a related technical field or equivalent experience.
  • 15+ years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering
  • Strong production experience with AWS networking (VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, segmentation, routing)
  • Deep networking fundamentals including IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, HA/failover, and network security
  • Experience integrating physical networks with cloud-based virtual networks
  • Experience with Terraform or similar tooling

What Desired Skills You’ll Bring:

  • Experience with virtual firewalls such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, or Fortinet
  • Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD
  • Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or WAN modernization
  • Experience with observability tools (Grafana, ELK/Kibana, flow logs, synthetic monitoring)
  • Experience applying AIOps or analytics for anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, or incident reduction

Benefits & conditions

An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation’s most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $176,900.00 - $332,400.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

About the company

Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Senior Cloud Network Engineer to join our team!

In this role you will help modernize and scale the network architecture for a mission-critical global platform operating across remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments.

What You’ll Be Doing:

  • Leading the design and implementation of hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS
  • Overseeing the build-out of modern VPC-based network fabrics and resilient virtual topologies using AWS services
  • Integrating and guiding alignment between physical firewalls/routed networks and cloud-based virtual networking and security appliances
  • Driving adoption of software-defined, policy-driven networking patterns
  • Enhancing reliability and operational insight through repeatable network deployments, infrastructure-as-code, observability, and telemetry-driven improvements, Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/ .

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