Hybrid Cloud Networking Engineer II

opti9technologies; United States; Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid Time Off

Flexible Work Options

Health & Dental Coverage

Wellness Reimbursement

Retirement Plan with Company Match

Casual, Supportive Culture

Recognition & Rewards

Professional Development

Give Back Together

A Place You’ll Want to Be

Job summary

Opti9 is seeking a Network Engineer to join our Cloud Networking team, focusing on deploying and supporting secure, scalable network solutions across private and public clouds. You will work with NSX, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and VMware technologies on customer projects, contributing to design, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

You will liaise with internal teams and customers, providing Tier 3 support to CloudOps and NOC as needed, while maintaining security best practices and documentation.

Qualifications

• 2-4 years hands-on with Fortinet and Palo Alto UTM next-gen firewall technologies.
• Experience implementing multi-tenancy using VDOMs within FortiOS.
• 2-4 years deploying firewall VMs and basic navigation of VMware environments.
• Clear English communication and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Support customer-facing projects for firewall and route/switch involving design, diagrams, documentation, implementation.
• Deploy and configure new customer environments utilizing NSX, security configurations, VMware Cloud Director networking and related infrastructure technologies.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network connectivity issues, including routing, switching, NAT configurations, firewall policies, and network path optimization.
• Maintain and improve the Palo Alto, FortiGate, and VMware NSX (V/T) SDN infrastructure supporting customer workloads.
• Regularly map out and document customer and infrastructure firewall diagrams to current versions.
• Respond to critical incidents and perform effective troubleshooting during production outages.
• Assist with administration and maintenance of all data center and colocation core connectivity down to the access level.
• Configure and support private and hybrid connectivity across customer sites and cloud environments (Megaport, PacketFabric, Azure ExpressRoute, AWS Direct Connect).
• Partner with customers, Sales Engineering, and internal teams to design scalable, secure network architectures.
• Collaborate across teams to share knowledge and improve operational efficiency.

Skills

Fortinet & Palo Alto firewall tech

VDOM multi-tenancy FortiOS

VMware vSphere/NSX SDN

Python/Ansible scripting

Tools

NSX

VMware vSphere

Fortinet

Palo Alto

Job description

Opti9 is seeking a Network Engineer to join our Cloud Networking team, focusing on deploying and supporting secure, scalable network solutions across private and public clouds. You will work with NSX, Fortinet, Palo Alto, and VMware technologies on customer projects, contributing to design, deployment, and ongoing optimization.

You will liaise with internal teams and customers, providing Tier 3 support to CloudOps and NOC as needed, while maintaining security best practices and documentation.