Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Gc2it; Reston (VA); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote eligible based on mission

Job summary

GC2IT is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale network architecture for a mission-critical global platform spanning remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments. The role blends networking fundamentals, cloud networking, automation, and telemetry-driven operations.

The position requires strong AWS networking design experience, IaC with Terraform, and a track record of delivering reliable, highly available networks in hybrid environments.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in network engineering or cloud networking.
• Extensive AWS networking production experience.
• Terraform or similar IaC experience.
• Experience with hybrid infrastructure, VPN/IPsec, and security segmentation.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement hybrid network architectures across field sites, central hubs, and AWS.
• Build and modernize VPC-based networks using AWS services.
• Integrate physical firewalls and VPN-connected sites with cloud networking and security appliances.

Skills

8+ yrs exp

AWS networking

Network design

Terraform

Troubleshooting

Global/HA systems

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CI/CD

Grafana

ELK

Kibana

Job description

Reston, VA (CONUS / OCONUS Support) | Hybrid / Remote Eligible Based On Mission Requirements

Position Summary

GC2IT is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale network architecture for a mission-critical global platform spanning remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments. The role combines deep networking fundamentals, cloud networking, automation, and telemetry-driven operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and implement hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS.
• Build and modernize VPC-based network fabrics using AWS services.
• Integrate physical firewalls, routed networks, and VPN-connected sites with virtual cloud networking and security appliances.
• Reduce dependence on static routing and static public IP-heavy designs through software-defined and policy-driven network patterns.
• Design for burst traffic, event-driven surges, failover, and high availability.
• Create repeatable network deployments using Terraform, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Improve network observability through flow logs, metrics, synthetic tests, alerting, and telemetry pipelines.
• Contribute to AIOps and capacity planning initiatives using telemetry for anomaly detection, forecasting, and faster incident response.
• Partner with cloud platform, field communications, software, observability, and security teams to deliver reliable end-to-end connectivity.

Required Qualifications

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

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with virtual firewalls/appliances such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent.
• Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD workflows.
• Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or large-scale WAN modernization.
• Experience with network observability tools such as Grafana, ELK, Kibana, flow-log analysis, and synthetic monitoring.
• Experience applying AIOps, analytics, or ML-assisted techniques to anomaly detection, capacity planning, traffic analysis, and incident reduction.
• Experience supporting remote systems and low-bandwidth or unreliable connections.
• AWS certifications or equivalent practical cloud networking depth.

Travel Requirements

Domestic and/or international project travel may be required.

Security Clearance Requirement

Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance required.

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job the employee is regularly required to climb, bend, stretch, walk, sit use hands to handle or feel; frequently use fingers to type; talk and hear; occasionally stand, kneel, stoop, crouch, bend, twist or reach out; may require lifting or moving 10 lbs; frequently required to reach with hands and arms. Vision requirements for this position include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

Work environment will have moderate noise when working in an office environment.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Equal Opportunity Employer - The Company does not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.

All applicants must be able to perform the essential functions of the position, including corresponding core job requirements, with or without reasonable accommodation. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities (and others in accordance with applicable law) to perform the essential functions of the job, consistent with applicable laws and Company policy.

Job Type: Full-time