Staff/Senior Network Engineer, GCP

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a network engineer to support a critical customer engagement focused on hybrid cloud networking, automation, and reliability. You will work with cloud platform engineering and customer stakeholders to ensure project success from initial definition through final delivery.

The role involves troubleshooting routing, DNS, and load balancing, building and managing infrastructure with Terraform, and designing secure network architectures with segmentation and firewall policies.

Qualifications

• Hands-on Google Cloud networking experience including VPC, VPN, Interconnect and load balancing.
• Advanced Terraform skills with modules and JSON-driven hydration; Bluecat integration a plus.
• Azure networking familiarity, especially VNet management.
• Experience designing hybrid on-premise to cloud networks.
• Proven ability to design, install, maintain, and administer infrastructure systems.
• Proactive performance monitoring and root cause analysis.
• Spacelift, CIDR provisioning, and automation tools are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Support a critical customer engagement focused on hybrid cloud networking and automation.
• Collaborate with cloud platform engineering and customer stakeholders to drive delivery.
• Troubleshoot routing, DNS, and load balancing issues.
• Build and manage infrastructure via Terraform.
• Design secure network architectures with segmentation and firewall policies.
• Automate repetitive tasks to improve system reliability.

Skills

Google Cloud Networking

Terraform

Hybrid Network Design

Infrastructure Administration

Performance Monitoring

Azure Networking

Network Troubleshooting

DNS & Routing

Network Automation

Education

Google Cloud Networking Certification

Tools

Terraform

Spacelift

Bluecat

Network Connectivity Center

Job description

Support a critical customer engagement focused on hybrid cloud networking, network automation, and infrastructure reliability. Work closely with cloud platform engineering team and customer stakeholders to ensure project success from initial definition through final delivery. Troubleshooting complex routing, DNS, and load balancing issues. Building and managing infrastructure via Terraform. Designing secure network architectures, including segmentation and firewall policies. Automating repetitive tasks to improve overall system reliability.

Requirements

• Hands-on Google Cloud networking depth: VPC, VPN, Interconnect, load balancing, firewall policies.
• Advanced Terraform — module design/refactoring; JSON-driven hydration module work is a strong plus.
• Azure networking familiarity, especially VNet management.
• Your Google Cloud and networking certifications, named, with dates.
• Experience designing or operating hybrid (on-premise to cloud) network architectures.
• Proven ability to design, implement, install, maintain, and administer infrastructure systems (hardware, software, and configurations).
• Proactive performance monitoring, issue identification, and root cause analysis on failed components.
• Experience integrating Terraform with Bluecat for automated CIDR range provisioning is a plus.
• Hands-on experience with Spacelift for infrastructure delivery and workflow automation is a plus.
• Experience using Network Connectivity Center is a plus.

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in Google Cloud networking, including VPC, VPN, and load balancing, while effectively designing and managing hybrid cloud network architectures. Proficient in Terraform for infrastructure automation and reliability enhancement.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Google Cloud Networking
• Advanced Terraform
• Hybrid Network Architecture Design
• Infrastructure System Administration
• Proactive Performance Monitoring

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Routing Troubleshooting
• DNS Management
• Load Balancing
• Firewall Policy Design
• Infrastructure Management
• Network Automation
• Root Cause Analysis
• CIDR Range Provisioning
• Network Connectivity Center
• VNet Management

Certifications & Qualifications

• Google Cloud Networking Certification

Industry Keywords

• Hybrid Cloud Networking
• Infrastructure Reliability
• Network Automation

Tools & Technologies

• Terraform
• Spacelift
• Bluecat