Senior Network Engineering Leader (Cloud, Automation)

TEKsystems; Atlanta (GA); Hybrid; USD 103,000 - 124,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

Disability coverage

Health Savings Account (HSA)

Transit benefits

Employee assistance program

Paid time off

Job summary

TEKsystems in Atlanta is hiring a senior Network Engineering leader to guide a geographically distributed team, setting technical direction and a roadmap for modernization across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive improvements in performance, resiliency, security, and observability, while advancing automated deployment, IaC, and standardized practices. Hybrid work model with contract-to-hire terms.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Network Engineering with leadership experience.
• Enterprise network architecture, routing, switching, and data center networking.
• Expertise in BGP, WAN technologies, resiliency, and high availability.
• Hands-on AWS networking across multi-region setups and cloud services.
• Strong Palo Alto firewall and network security knowledge.
• Proven management of network transformation within large enterprises.
• Experience in hybrid cloud/data center/office network environments.
• Ability to lead teams while staying hands-on technically.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a distributed team of network engineers with technical direction.
• Develop a modernization roadmap for network environment and lifecycle management.
• Improve performance, resiliency, capacity planning, security, and observability.
• Support cloud migrations and data center modernization initiatives.
• Establish IaC, version control, peer review, and change management practices.
• Participate in architecture reviews and critical incident response.
• Collaborate with cloud, security, infra, and application teams to align goals.
• Lead disaster recovery planning and executive-level reporting.
• Enhance configuration management and automate repeatable deployments.

Skills

Leadership

Network engineering

AWS networking

BGP & WAN

Palo Alto firewall

Hybrid cloud & data center

Team mentorship

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

New Relic

Job description

TEKsystems in Atlanta is hiring a senior Network Engineering leader to guide a geographically distributed team, setting technical direction and a roadmap for modernization across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will drive improvements in performance, resiliency, security, and observability, while advancing automated deployment, IaC, and standardized practices. Hybrid work model with contract-to-hire terms.