Cloud Networking Engineer II – SDN & Security

Opti9 Technologies; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Hybrid schedule

Health & Dental Coverage

Wellness Reimbursement

401(k) Plan with Company Match

Casual, supportive culture

Professional Development & Certs

Job summary

Opti9 Technologies is seeking a Network Engineer to support cloud and managed infrastructure environments, focusing on firewall and SDN deployments for customer projects. You will collaborate with Cloud Networking teams across multiple vendors, ensuring secure, scalable network architectures and high uptime.

The role emphasizes strong interpersonal skills, cross-team communication, and hands-on experience with Fortinet, Palo Alto, VMware NSX, and cloud connectivity services.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of hands-on work with Fortinet and Palo Alto next-gen firewall technologies.
• Experience implementing multi-tenancy using VDOMs within FortiOS.
• 2–4 years deploying firewall VMs and basic VMware navigation.
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and technologies (BGP, OSPF, VLANs, etc).

Responsibilities

• Support customer-facing projects for firewall and route/switch design, diagrams, documentation, and implementation.
• Deploy and configure new customer environments utilizing NSX, security configurations, VMware Cloud Director networking.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity issues (routing, switching, NAT, firewall policies).
• Manage and improve Palo Alto, FortiGate, and VMware NSX SDN infrastructure.
• Document firewall diagrams and maintain up-to-date versions.
• Respond to incidents and perform troubleshooting during production outages.
• Monitor security platform alerts and uphold SLAs for uptime.
• Communicate complex concepts clearly in English to teams and customers.

Skills

Fortinet & Palo Alto experience

VMware vSphere/NSX

Networking protocols (BGP/OSPF/VLANs)

English communication

Tools

NSX-T SDN

VMware vSphere

Arista networking

Palo Alto CLI

Job description

Opti9 Technologies is seeking a Network Engineer to support cloud and managed infrastructure environments, focusing on firewall and SDN deployments for customer projects. You will collaborate with Cloud Networking teams across multiple vendors, ensuring secure, scalable network architectures and high uptime.

The role emphasizes strong interpersonal skills, cross-team communication, and hands-on experience with Fortinet, Palo Alto, VMware NSX, and cloud connectivity services.