Cloud Network Engineering Lead, VP

Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group•Jersey City, NJ

7d•Hybrid

About The Position

Do you want your voice heard and your actions to count? Discover your opportunity with Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group (MUFG), one of the world’s leading financial groups. Across the globe, we’re 150,000 colleagues, striving to make a difference for every client, organization, and community we serve. We stand for our values, building long-term relationships, serving society, and fostering shared and sustainable growth for a better world. With a vision to be the world’s most trusted financial group, it’s part of our culture to put people first, listen to new and diverse ideas and collaborate toward greater innovation, speed and agility. This means investing in talent, technologies, and tools that empower you to own your career. Join MUFG, where being inspired is expected and making a meaningful impact is rewarded. The selected colleague will work at an MUFG office or client sites four days per week and work remotely one day. A member of our recruitment team will provide more details. Job Summary: This role is responsible for delivering major transformational initiatives, including AWS Landing Zone deployment, application migration, data center reengineering and consolidation, and multi-cloud rationalization. The position involves designing and executing operational objectives by engineering, evaluating, recommending, testing, and implementing plans for both current and emerging network technologies. Key responsibilities include contributing to strategic planning and reviews, developing cost-effective network designs aligned with MUFG and industry best practices, resolving technical issues, conducting audits, addressing vulnerabilities, identifying trends, recommending network improvements, and driving change implementation. As a Lead Cloud Network Engineer, you will play a critical role in developing and maintaining MUFG’s network infrastructure across cloud environments and on-premises facilities, including data centers and office locations. You will collaborate closely with teams in Architecture, Cloud & Compute Engineering, Security, Risk, and Development, as well as business stakeholders, to design and build a highly scalable and resilient network infrastructure that ensures continuous availability. The ideal candidate will demonstrate strategic influence, strong collaboration skills, and deep expertise in enterprise-scale network engineering, implementation, and automation.

Requirements

8-10 years of hands-on experience in Cloud Engineering, with a focus on network engineering and troubleshooting
Expert level proficiency in multiple cloud disciplines and on-premises network , covering technical architecture, network management, observability, core network infrastructure, LTMs/GTMs , ALBs, NLBs, GLBs, Route53, and Infoblox DNS, IPAM , and network security
5+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible for resource provisioning and management
Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
Must be able to determine business requirements and provide detailed designs.
Proficient in developing automation scripts and command-line tools using high-level programming languages such as Ansible and Python , aimed at streamlining workflows and enhancing developer productivity.
Experience in zero trust environments
Experience with Network Management and Analytical tools such as Datadog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, CloudWatch, SolarWinds, Netbrain, and Wireshark
Strong grasp of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, application rationalization, performance optimization, and networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VPN, VLAN, HSRP, VRFs, OSPF, BGP, etc.) , with a focus on building scalable and resilient infrastructure.
Strong collaboration skills for effective communication with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, security, risk, and business stakeholders.
Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills.
Bachelor’s degree in Information technology, Computer Science, Internetworking, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or Information Systems Engineering (or foreign equivalent degree

Nice To Haves

AWS Certified Advanced Networking and/or Solution Architect
CCIE (Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert) Certification would be a big plus.

Responsibilities

Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure, Load balancing, DNS, and IPAM
Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
Leverage automation tools including Terraform, Ansible, and Python scripting to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
Drive improvements in network performance to support various business services
Must be able to leverage tools (logic-monitor, flow logs, CloudWatch, Netbrain, SolarWinds, and Wireshark, etc.) and automation/scripting (Terraform, Ansible, Python) to troubleshoot routing, switching, load balancing, DNS, infrastructure and application performance issues, find and improve bottlenecks
Be able to design, configure, deploy, and troubleshoot LTMs/GTMs , ALBs, NLBs, and GLBs, Route53, Infoblox DNS, and IPAM
Be able to support audit, vulnerability, and compliance related efforts.
Familiar with project delivery methodologies related to network infrastructure.
Work with the team to evolve the long-term architecture in collaboration with stakeholders, partners, and customers; participate in developing the ongoing strategic vision.
Be able to evaluate emerging technologies on an ongoing basis, identify needs and be able to make recommendations for new technologies and vendor solutions based on network vision and strategy, leveraging latest industry developments.
Embed Information Security and Risk Management principles within culture requiring continuous improvement to complex functions to coordinate security and compliance risks related to information systems and assets.
Able to drive coordination, consensus, and execution to mitigate risk, issues, and emerging threats in mission-critical environments.
Ability to maintain excellent network documentation using Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
Excellent verbal / written communication skills a must.
Must be able to support weekend / after-hours network deployments and escalations to troubleshoot production issues.
Participate in the team's on-call rotation