Senior Cloud Network Architect — AWS, SD-WAN & Automation

Jtec Industries, Inc. - Material Movement Experts; Reston (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jtec Industries, Inc. - Material Movement Experts is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale our global network across field sites, centralized hubs, and AWS environments. You will design hybrid architectures and drive automation to ensure scalable, reliable connectivity.

The role emphasizes IaC, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical systems with high availability and performance.

Qualifications

• Eight or more years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on AWS networking experience (VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, security segmentation, routing design).
• Strong networking fundamentals (IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, HA, security).
• Experience connecting physical networks to cloud-based virtual networks.
• Experience with Terraform or similar IaC tooling.
• Experience troubleshooting across network, platform, and application boundaries.
• Experience supporting high-availability, mission-critical, or globally distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement hybrid network architectures across field sites, centralized environments, and AWS.
• Build and modernize VPC-based network fabrics using AWS services.
• Integrate physical firewalls, VPNs, and cloud networking with security appliances.
• Reduce dependence on static routing through software-defined networking.
• Design for burst traffic, failover, and high availability.
• Create repeatable network deployments with Terraform and IaC.
• Improve observability with flow logs, telemetry pipelines.
• Contribute to AIOps and capacity planning using telemetry for anomaly detection.
• Collaborate with cloud, field, software, observability, and security teams for end-to-end connectivity.

Skills

8+ years network engineering

AWS networking in production

Networking fundamentals

Terraform / IaC

Troubleshooting across layers

Remote/low bandwidth considerations

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Grafana

ELK / Kibana

Python scripting

Job description

Jtec Industries, Inc. - Material Movement Experts is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale our global network across field sites, centralized hubs, and AWS environments. You will design hybrid architectures and drive automation to ensure scalable, reliable connectivity.

The role emphasizes IaC, observability, and collaboration with cross-functional teams to support mission-critical systems with high availability and performance.