The Opportunity
NTS is seeking a Cloud Network Engineer who will be responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining secure, reliable network infrastructure across cloud-based and hybrid environments. This role focuses on ensuring network connectivity, performance, security, and segmentation while collaborating with cloud platform, security, and cyber engineering teams to support resilient network architectures.
U.S. citizenship is required for this position due to the requirements of the supporting U.S. government contract.
Key Responsibilities (Principal Duties and Accountabilities *Essential Functions)
- Design, implement, configure, and maintain network infrastructure across cloud-based and hybrid environments.
- Manage routing, switching, VPN, and network security configurations to ensure secure and reliable connectivity.
- Monitor network performance, availability, and connectivity to identify and resolve potential issues.
- Troubleshoot network connectivity, latency, routing, and performance issues to minimize disruptions.
- Configure, maintain, and optimize firewall rules, routing policies, and VPN connections.
- Implement and enforce network segmentation, access controls, and traffic management policies to maintain a secure network environment.
- Collaborate with cloud platform, security, and cyber engineering teams to design and maintain resilient network architectures.
- Support network-related incident response activities, including troubleshooting, investigation, and remediation.
- Implement and support secure network configuration changes while minimizing operational impact.
- Maintain accurate documentation of network topology, configurations, change history, and established standards.
- Identify opportunities to improve network reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
- Ensure cloud network infrastructure remains secure, reliable, and aligned with organizational requirements and best practices.
Requirements
- Fluency in English (written and spoken)
- Active Top Secret clearance
Education
- A Master's degree may count for up to 2 years of experience, and a PhD may count for up to 4 years. Up to 1 additional year of credit may be applied for relevant certifications.
Required Skills, Experience & Abilities
- Minimum of 9 years of relevant experience in cloud platform engineering or related IT fields.
- Strong understanding of Microsoft Cloud technologies, including Azure AD Premium and office 365. Hands-on experience with Azure services such as Key Vault, Redis Cache, Service Bus, NSGs, Application Insights, SQL DB, and OMS.
- Must be capable of designing and supporting ADFS identity solutions and managing Azure cloud environments.
- Experience with hybrid cloud deployments and migrations to Azure. Familiarity with CI/CD practices using tools like Jenkins, TFS, and PowerShell.
- Ability to provide second-level support for compute, network and storage issues in Azure and AWS environments.
Preferred Qualifications
- Azure Solutions Architect Expert certification highly desired.
- Proven experience designing scalable, secure cloud architectures in Microsoft Azure.
- Demonstrated ability to solve complex issues in hybrid cloud environments.
- Strong background in cloud security, and compliance training.
Physical Demands and Work Environment The physical demands and work environment described are representative of those that an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Prolonged periods of sitting at a desk and working on a computer.
- This position is performed on site in Tampa, Florida
- Ability to travel up to 10% of the time, which may include extended periods of standing, walking, or navigating airports and government facilities.