Cloud & Network Infrastructure Architect
Downey, CA - USA
Job Summary
Designs implements and optimizes highly available secure multi-cloud network infrastructure spanning AWS and Azure with hybrid connectivity into on-premises County data centers. Owns the architecture resiliency design and traffic engineering for enterprise-scale cloud networking this is infrastructure-architecture work not application development.
Design and manage network infrastructure across AWS and Azure environments including multi-region and multi-Availability Zone deployments
Architect highly available fault-tolerant network designs with resiliency patterns and automated failover
Implement hybrid cloud connectivity using AWS Transit Gateway and Azure ExpressRoute
Provision and manage Megaport Virtual Cross Connects (VXCs) for private cloud-to-on-prem connectivity
Manage traffic engineering: ingress/egress routing path optimization high-availability network design
Deploy and manage cloud-native and F5-based load balancing (AWS ELB Azure Load Balancer/App Gateway F5 LTM/GTM)
Deploy and manage virtual firewalls and NVAs (Palo Alto VM-Series Cisco CSR 8000v) alongside native cloud security controls
Design VPC/VNet peering hybrid connectivity and multi-cloud architectures
Configure and manage BGP across cloud hybrid and multi-cloud environments
Apply cloud network security principles: Security Groups NSGs NACLs segmentation compliance alignment
AWS and Azure networking services (Transit Gateway ExpressRoute VPC/VNet)
Megaport services and VXC provisioning
F5 VIPRION LTM/GTM or equivalent cloud-native load balancing
Network Virtual Appliances: Palo Alto VM-Series Cisco CSR 8000v
BGP configuration in hybrid/multi-cloud environments
Cloud security constructs (Security Groups NSGs NACLs)
Storage architecture across multi-vendor and multi-cloud platforms (Dell PowerMax NetApp Pure Storage for storage-architect variants)
6 years designing implementing and managing cloud-based network infrastructure (AWS and Azure)
4 years designing highly available/resilient cloud network architectures including DR and failover
4 years hands-on with AWS/Azure networking services: Transit Gateway ExpressRoute load balancing hybrid connectivity
4 years with Megaport services (VXC provisioning hybrid/multi-cloud networking)
4 years in traffic engineering network segmentation and firewall deployment (native NVA)
Bachelors degree in an IT-related or Engineering field (or equivalent experience year-for-year)
At least one of: AWS Certified Advanced Networking Specialty AWS Certified Solutions Architect Microsoft Certified: Azure Network Engineer Associate
Required Skills:
Skills Required Z/OS CICS IMS DB2 ADABAS ACF2 ENTIREX SMP/E COBOL NATURAL/SuperNatural Assembler REXX JCL Control-M CA Spool TSO/ISPF Endevor VTAM TCP/IP NetView Tivoli Data conversion/ETL between legacy and relational/modern platforms Ticketing and production-control tooling (Cherwell or similar) Experience Required 57 years of experience in mainframe operations systems programming or application programming (role-dependent) For senior/lead roles: 35 years in a lead capacity 23 years working with legacy and relational data technologies (DB2 FOCUS Oracle SQL Server) for conversion-focused roles 12 years of automation of system monitoring/maintenance procedures for operator-tier roles Education / Training Bachelors degree in an IT-related field or equivalent mainframe-operations experience Additional qualifying experience may substitute for education on a year-for-year basis