Sr. Cloud Network Engineer at Global C2 Integration Technologies in Reston, VA, USA

Job description

• GC2IT is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale network architecture for a mission-critical global platform spanning remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments. The role combines deep networking fundamentals, cloud networking, automation, and telemetry-driven operations.

Responsibilities

• · Design and implement hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS.
• · Build and modernize VPC-based network fabrics using AWS services.
• · Integrate physical firewalls, routed networks, and VPN-connected sites with virtual cloud networking and security appliances.
• · Reduce dependence on static routing and static public IP-heavy designs through software-defined and policy-driven network patterns.
• · Design for burst traffic, event-driven surges, failover, and high availability.
• · Create repeatable network deployments using Terraform, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• · Improve network observability through flow logs, metrics, synthetic tests, alerting, and telemetry pipelines.
• · Contribute to AIOps and capacity planning initiatives using telemetry for anomaly detection, forecasting, and faster incident response.
• · Partner with cloud platform, field communications, software, observability, and security teams to deliver reliable end-to-end connectivity.

Requirements

• · Eight or more years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering.
• · Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking in production, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, security segmentation, and routing design.
• · Strong networking fundamentals, including IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, high availability/failover, and network security fundamentals.
• · Experience connecting physical networks into cloud-based virtual networks.
• · Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling.
• · Experience troubleshooting across network, platform, and application boundaries.
• · Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical, or globally distributed systems.
• · Experience with virtual firewalls/appliances such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent.
• · Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD workflows.
• · Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or large-scale WAN modernization.
• · Experience with network observability tools such as Grafana, ELK, Kibana, flow-log analysis, and synthetic monitoring.
• · Experience applying AIOps, analytics, or ML-assisted techniques to anomaly detection, capacity planning, traffic analysis, and incident reduction.
• · Experience supporting remote systems and low-bandwidth or unreliable connections.
• · AWS certifications or equivalent practical cloud networking depth.

Skills

Preferred

• AIOps, analytics, ML-assisted techniques
• AWS certifications