Senior Network Architect — Hybrid, Cloud & Observability

GuideWell; Jacksonville (FL); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 163,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Retirement plan

Paid time off

Well-being days

Job summary

GuideWell seeks a Senior Network Engineer in Jacksonville for designing, implementing, and operating our enterprise network across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-user environments. This hands-on engineering role also influences strategy, mentors junior staff, and partners with security, cloud, and application teams to deliver a resilient network.

You will lead complex incidents, develop automation, craft runbooks, and produce network documentation while collaborating across teams in a

Qualifications

• 5+ years related work experience in Network infrastructure design and administration.
• Related Bachelor’s degree or additional related equivalent work experience in IT related field.
• Must have extensive network operations knowledge and experience.
• Ability to manage tasks independently and take ownership of responsibilities.
• Ability to learn from mistakes and apply constructive feedback to improve performance.
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately to all levels and audiences.
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment.
• High critical thinking skills to evaluate alternatives and present solutions that are consistent with business objectives and strategy.
• Have broad, expert knowledge of many tools or products (breadth) and deep knowledge in at least one particular tool or product (depth).
• Proven leadership abilities including effective knowledge sharing, conflict resolution, facilitation of open discussions, fairness and displaying appropriate levels of assertiveness.

Responsibilities

• Provide expert level consulting to internal and external customers and partners. Resolve issues or maximize capabilities across multiple facilities, high transaction volume or costs, and high impact.
• Manage cloud network architecture including Transit Gateway, hub-and-spoke designs, Direct Connect, VPC/VNet design, and centralized inspection patterns.
• Build and maintain network observability using Datadog, ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, including dashboards, alerting, and capacity planning.
• Develop automation and Infrastructure-as-Code (Python, Ansible, Terraform) to streamline configuration management and change deployment.
• Lead design and implementation of large-scale networking solutions based on business requirements.
• Author and maintain high-quality network documentation and participate in on-call rotations and incident response.
• Lead technical teams resolving complex network and system problems and develop technical strategies.

Skills

Network design

Cloud networking

IaC automation

Python scripting

Leadership

Documentation

Incident response

Stakeholder communication

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Datadog

ThousandEyes

SolarWinds

Terraform

Ansible

Cisco Viptela

Palo Alto

Job description

GuideWell seeks a Senior Network Engineer in Jacksonville for designing, implementing, and operating our enterprise network across campus, data center, cloud, and remote-user environments. This hands-on engineering role also influences strategy, mentors junior staff, and partners with security, cloud, and application teams to deliver a resilient network.

You will lead complex incidents, develop automation, craft runbooks, and produce network documentation while collaborating across teams in a