Cloud Network Engineer (Austin)

Principal Public Cloud Network Engineer

Denver, CO; Charlotte, NC; St. Louis, MO; or Austin, TX

6 months Contract

Job Description

We are seeking a Principal Public Cloud Network Engineer to design, build, and optimize mission-critical cloud network infrastructure. This role partners with DevOps, platform, and security teams to deliver scalable, automated, and secure network connectivity across AWS andeventuallyGCP environments. Candidates must have proven cloud networking implementation experience (not just traditional on-prem networking) and the ability to explain how networking concepts translate into public cloud architectures.

Work Model : 4 days per week onsite (per company policy). Local strongly preferred. Contractor-only engagement. No visa sponsorship or layered subcontracting.

Key Accountability

• Engineer, deploy, and maintain public cloud networking services (VPC, Transit Gateway, PrivateLink, NLB / ALB).
• Design and operate hybrid connectivity (Direct Connect, VPN, SD-WAN).
• Implement segmentation, routing, DNS, and traffic management for high-availability workloads.
• Build automation for network provisioning using Terraform / CloudFormation.
• Monitor and troubleshoot performance, latency, and packet flow.
• Implement network logging, inspection, and observability.
• Partner with security teams to deliver zero-trust and identity-aware network designs.
• Support Kubernetes networking (EKS, CNI, service mesh).
• Learn and apply GCP networking architectures to support multi-cloud expansion.
• Mentor junior engineers and set network best practices.

Operational

Basic Qualifications