Cloud Network Engineer

GuideWell • United States,

4d • $130,000 - $211,300 • Hybrid

About The Position

GuideWell is migrating its infrastructure to AWS, exiting data center capacity, and rebuilding its disaster recovery posture. The Cloud Network Engineer designs the cloud network foundation, runs the hybrid connectivity that keeps workloads reachable through the transition, and designs the multi-region and colocation connectivity that DR depends on. This is a hands-on role covering both sides of the migration, from carrier circuits and legacy routing to VPC design and transit architecture.

Requirements

• 8+ years related work experience in networking
• 4+ years managing hybrid cloud/on-premises network infrastructure
• Related Bachelor's degree required
• Strong routing fundamentals, including BGP in hybrid environments.
• Hands-on AWS/Azure networking: foundational networking, hub-and-spoke, hybrid connectivity
• Firewall and network security policy experience.
• Experience supporting production cutovers under change control.
• Troubleshooting across TCP/IP, DNS, load balancers, and routing.
• Colocation and carrier circuit experience: cross connects, diverse path design, provider management.

Nice To Haves

• Healthcare payer experience, including partner and EDI connectivity.
• Multi-region or multi-site network design supporting disaster recovery, including failover testing.
• AWS GovCloud networking, including cross-partition routing and DNS.
• Networking across two or more major cloud platforms, including connectivity between them. Which platform was primary does not matter.
• Terraform or equivalent infrastructure as code.
• Data center migration, exit, or secondary site standup experience.
• Palo Alto or Fortinet firewalls in cloud.
• AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, CCNP, or CCIE.

Responsibilities

• Design and operate VPC architecture, address space allocation, and routing across a multi-account AWS environment.
• Build and run the transit layer using Transit Gateway or Cloud WAN.
• Design and operate hybrid connectivity, including Direct Connect and site-to-site VPN.
• Build and operate connectivity between AWS partitions and to secondary cloud platforms.
• Own cloud DNS, including Route 53, resolver rules, and hybrid name resolution.
• Support trading partner and vendor connectivity, including EDI and clearinghouse tunnels.
• Implement network segmentation separating regulated workloads, under security-approved policy.
• Configure and operate cloud firewalls, inspection paths, egress controls, and load balancing.
• Design the multi-region network model supporting disaster recovery, and validate failover through testing.
• Design and manage colocation and carrier connectivity, including circuit diversity and provider management.
• Plan and execute network cutovers during migration waves, including rollback.
• Deliver network configuration through Terraform.
• Build network monitoring and capacity visibility. Feed network telemetry to security operations.
• Maintain topology documentation and serve as escalation for network incidents.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life and global travel health insurance
• Income protection benefits: life insurance, short- and long-term disability programs
• Leave programs to support personal circumstances
• Retirement Savings Plan including employer match
• Paid time off, volunteer time off, 10 holidays and 2 well-being days
• Additional voluntary benefits available; and a comprehensive wellness program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior