Principal Network Architect - Hybrid Cloud & Security

Blink Health LLc; New York, Pittsburgh, Seattle (NY, Allegheny County, WA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Blink Health seeks a Principal Network Engineer to set the technical direction for our network and connectivity across offices and cloud environments.

You will own the architecture for routing, switching, VPN, firewall, and cloud networking, partnering with engineering, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions. This is a hands‑on, high‑influence role requiring clear communication and leadership.

Qualifications

• 10+ years designing and operating enterprise networks, with hybrid on‑prem and cloud experience.
• Experience architecting large‑scale network initiatives in AWS and Kubernetes‑based microservices environments.
• Expert‑level knowledge of IPSec/VPN, DNS, SNMP, OSPF, BGP, AWS VPC, Security Groups, peering, Transit Gateway, and advanced routing.
• Hands‑on experience with infrastructure‑as‑code and network automation (Terraform, Python, Ansible).
• Demonstrated ability to influence without authority, set standards, and drive cross‑functional alignment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for leadership.

Responsibilities

• Define and own Blink’s network architecture and multi‑year roadmap across on‑prem and AWS.
• Serve as the senior technical authority for network design in a microservices and container‑based environment (AWS, Kubernetes).
• Drive network‑as‑code and automation (IaC, CI/CD, config management).
• Establish network design standards and guardrails for security, compliance, redundancy, and high availability.
• Lead evaluation, selection, and adoption of new products and solutions; present to IT and engineering leadership.
• Lead architecture for site build‑outs, cloud migrations, network segmentation, zero trust, and M&A integration.
• Serve as final technical escalation point for incidents; lead root cause analysis and systemic fixes.
• Partner with security to define hardening and patching standards, and to remediate security incidents with network impact.
• Design observability and monitoring strategy for network health, performance, and capacity planning.
• Mentor and develop staff; build runbooks and training; own architecture documentation.
• Communicate clearly with stakeholders; participate in on‑call rotation.

Skills

Network design

Hybrid on-prem/cloud

IaC automation

Kubernetes

Communication

Tools

Meraki

Palo Alto

AWS VPC

Transit Gateway

Terraform

Python

Ansible

Job description

Blink Health seeks a Principal Network Engineer to set the technical direction for our network and connectivity across offices and cloud environments.

You will own the architecture for routing, switching, VPN, firewall, and cloud networking, partnering with engineering, security, and platform teams to deliver scalable, secure solutions. This is a hands‑on, high‑influence role requiring clear communication and leadership.