Network Cloud Testing Engineer

Robotics Prcocess Automation, LLC; Alpharetta (GA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A technology solutions provider in Alpharetta seeks a skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer with extensive knowledge of IPV6 and experience in cloud infrastructures like AWS, Azure, and GCP. The role requires designing test strategies, developing automation frameworks, and ensuring compliance with IPV6 standards. Ideal candidates should possess strong troubleshooting skills and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams to enhance network solutions. Experience with network protocols and tools such as Ixia and Wireshark is essential. This position offers a dynamic work environment focused on cutting-edge cloud technologies.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with LAN/WAN network design and certification.
• CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent experience.
• Strong knowledge of IPV6 networking and validation.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, and GCP cloud services.
• Python programming knowledge is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develop test automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible.
• Drive IPV6 validation across cloud architectures.
• Collaborate with other teams to create test plans.
• Ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards.
• Provide escalation support to network operations.

Skills

IPV6 fundamentals

Network protocols

Cloud networking

Test automation

Troubleshooting and debugging

Communication skills

Tools

Ixia

Spirent

Wireshark

Git

Job description

Position Description

This position is a highly skilled Cloud Network Test Engineer role with deep knowledge of IPV6 and hands‑on experience across Public Cloud Infrastructures, AWS, Azure and GCP. Candidates focus on developing the lab testing frameworks, validating expected test performance on the IPV6 and dual‑stack networking in cloud‑native and enterprise environments. The ideal candidate will design test strategies and ensure compliance with IPV6 readiness standards across public clouds. The position requires coordination with other teams to gather certification requirements, translate those requirements into a detailed test plan, and execute them in coordination with other team members in a live lab environment. This entails troubleshooting, code/platform lifecycle management, and providing solutions to complex hardware/software problems. The work involves close coordination across BU technologists in translating their network needs from business requirements, providing escalation support to network operations, validating bugs/vulnerabilities/work‑arounds in the lab, documenting the exposure/impact and presenting to the ENS forum for approval, and assisting Operations in piloting those solutions in a production environment.

This role will drive IPV6 validation across multi‑cloud and hybrid‑cloud infrastructures, develop sophisticated test automation frameworks using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation tools. Responsibilities include testing network DMZ designs and certifying the underlying hardware, software features, and enhancing overall security posture of the network. The candidate will identify various communication scenarios, create and execute and/or oversee the testing, perform related data gathering and analytics, and prepare related design and deployment templates.

Qualifications

• 8+ Years of experience with LAN/WAN network design, engineering, and feature testing/certification.
• CCIE/CCNP certified or equivalent level of experience.
• AWS Advanced Networking, Azure Network Engineer, or GCP Cloud Network Engineer certifications are desired.
• 4+ years of experience with Cloud PaaS and/or IaaS (Azure, AWS). Well versed in cloud networking solutions, understanding of cloud compute and related cloud operating models.
• Must have understanding of AWS constructs such as VPC IPv6 addressing, Internet Gateway, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, Route 53; Azure constructs such as VNet IPv6, Azure Load Balancer, IPv6 ExpressRoute, NSGs, Azure Network Watcher; GCP constructs such as Cloud Routers, Google Access for IPv6, Cloud NAT64, Interconnect, VPC Flow Logs.
• 3+ years of IPV6 networking and validation experience.
• Experience with building lab designs and certifying the hardware and software of products, performing PoCs.
• Strong knowledge of networking technologies: TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, MPBGP, MPLS VPNs, VxLAN, Multicast.
• Well versed in DMVPN, IPSEC, encryption standards, and network security.
• Experience on Cisco IOS‑XE, Nexus devices.
• Python network programming knowledge is a plus.
• Knowledge of Agile process is a plus.
• Work under minimal supervision.
• Experience in using test tools such as Ixia, Spirent, iPerf, and latency generators.
• Network traffic analysis, able to read pcaps, Wireshark.
• Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills.
• Collaborate and coordinate with network and security teams, and vendors.
• Ability to deal with multiple projects and prioritize tasks.
• Excellent spoken and written communication skills – a must.
• Create all necessary test cases and develop config templates and operational manuals.
• Demonstrate strong interpersonal and communication skills while working with diverse audiences including highly skilled IT professionals and senior management.
• Collaborate with other technical teams at Brokerage to deliver product and solution‑level support.
• Facilitate the transition from PoC to certification to pilot to a fully established production environment, focusing on preparing test plans and incremental updates to stakeholders.
• Extensive liaison with Cisco and Arista.

Skills Required

• Excellent knowledge of network protocols: BGP, OSPF, Spanning Tree protocol, Multicast.
• Strong understanding of IPV6 fundamentals, addressing, NDP, ICMPv6, DHCPv6, SLAAC, IPV6 + IPV4 implementation.
• Experience with routing protocols OSPFv3, BGPv6.
• Knowledge of cloud networking and security best practices (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Microsoft Azure VNet, VNet‑Peering, Private Link, vWAN, ExpressRoute, Firewall, Load Balancer.
• AWS global infrastructure, VPC, S3, EC2, Route 53, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect.
• Knowledge of firewalls and NAT64/DNS64 configuration.
• Design and troubleshoot Cisco, Arista network platforms and protocols.
• IP routing platforms: ISR, ASR1K, ASR9K, Catalyst 9K, Catalyst 8Kv, Nexus9K.
• Multicast: IGMPv2/v3, PIM, Static RP, RP‑Anycast.
• Overlay technologies like IPSEC, DMVPN, VXLAN, MACSEC, and SDWAN/SDA (plus).
• Cabling and optics 10/25G/40G/50G/100G – break‑out cables, break‑out panels.
• Ansible knowledge – a huge plus.
• Proficient in traffic generation tools such as Ixia, Spirent, iPerf3, Wireshark.
• Test automation within CI/CD infrastructure, Robot Framework (plus).
• Experience with Kubernetes and IPV6‑enabled CNI plugins like Calico and Cilium (plus).

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