Azure Network Engineer

Azure Network Engineer

The Azure Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting scalable, secure network and cloud infrastructure solutions across hybrid environments. This role brings deep technical expertise, industry knowledge, and best practices to deliver reliable and cost-effective infrastructure that supports business growth and hosted/SaaS platforms.

This position works closely with internal teams, vendors, and industry partners to stay current with emerging technologies and continuously improve infrastructure capabilities. The engineer serves as a subject matter expert for Azure networking, cloud hosting, and cybersecurity, ensuring solutions are aligned with organizational standards and security frameworks.

The role owns, plans, executes, and documents multiple concurrent technical initiatives, including cloud migrations, infrastructure modernization, and network optimization efforts. Responsibilities include maintaining high availability of hosted environments, supporting incident response, and driving improvements in performance, scalability, and security.

• Maintains a broad understanding of the function of multiple technology fields including applications, server infrastructure, database, and web and how they interoperate with the network infrastructure
• Independently studies, researches, and provides deep knowledge of network specialty domains such as firewalls, VOIP, datacenter technologies, load balancers, cloud networking, wireless, packet analysis, networking tools (DNAC, PRTG, ISE, etc.), low voltage design, MPLS, network security, or route/switch and is a subject matter expert on one or more of these technologies
• Independently evaluates existing network infrastructure systems to identify failed security compliance, licensing gaps, cost overruns, and/or technology failures and defines a remediation plan
• Independently collaborates with vendors on new technology offerings to evaluate, test, and integrate those offerings into the network infrastructure
• Independently trains peers on new technology solutions and facilitates the handover of those solutions from architecture to operations and acts as final escalation point for specialty technology that has been architected
• Independently owns a major or multiple concurrent minor network infrastructure projects from concept to completion including requirements gathering, delegation of tasks to peers, implementation, reporting to senior leadership, turn up, testing, and hand off of the technology solution to the business
• Independently troubleshoots, resolves, and seeks root cause analysis of issues, major incidents, and outages
• Independently processes routine requests for network services, access, and documentation
• Configures, maintains, and operates routers, switches, firewalls, wireless access points, load balancers, VOIP equipment, and monitoring tools

Key Responsibilities

• Design, Manage and support Azure cloud infrastructure, networking,Network Security Groups, and hosted environments
• Design, manage site to site IPSec Tunnels, Virtual network gateways.

Qualifications

Required:

• US based, must pass CJIS checks.

Salary: $85,000 - $100,000/year.