Cloud Network Engineer - CTJ - Poly

Responsibilities

• Help design and implement proactive, scalable infrastructure solutions that improve reliability, optimize performance, and reduce operational complexity through automation and simplified architectures.
• Troubleshoot complex live-site and production network issues using deep expertise in network protocols, telemetry, tools, and APIs.
• Drive sustainable remediation through automation and engineering improvements while minimizing customer impact.
• Participate in on-call rotations and mentor other engineers.
• Contribute to incident response efforts across engineering teams, ensuring timely mitigation, thorough root cause analysis, and high-quality postmortems.
• Analyze historical operational data to identify recurring issues and prioritize long-term improvements.
• Leverage operational and performance data to assess business impact, identify trends, and drive engineering decisions that improve service reliability, network performance, and customer experience.
• Help design, deploy, and operate Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking technologies, including switching, routing, BGP, VXLAN/EVPN, VRFs, network segmentation, 802.1X/IBNS, and highly available out-of-band (OOB) management networks.
• Collaborate with partner teams to develop scalable, resilient, and high-performance network architectures.
• Independently create technical designs, implementation plans, validation strategies, and deployment procedures.
• Help develop and maintain automation solutions for network deployment, validation, monitoring, and operational workflows to reduce manual effort, improve service availability, and enforce engineering standards within secure environments.
• Drive operational excellence through documentation, knowledge sharing, process improvement, and continuous learning.

Qualifications

• Required/Minimum Qualifications: Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 2+ years technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR Master's Degree in Electrical Engineering, Optical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field AND 1+ year(s) technical experience in network design, development, and automation OR equivalent experience.
• Other Requirements: Security Clearance Requirements: Candidates must be able to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required for this role. These requirements include, but are not limited to the following specialized security screenings: The successful candidate must have an active U.S. Government Top Secret Clearance with access to Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) based on a Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) with Polygraph. Ability to meet Microsoft, customer and/or government security screening requirements are required pre-offer and post-hire for this role. Failure to maintain or obtain the appropriate U.S. Government clearance and/or customer screening requirements may result in employment action up to and including termination.