Network Engineers

Ardent Principles, Inc.•,

5d•$130,000 - $260,000•Onsite

About The Position

As a Network Engineer, you’ll perform advanced troubleshooting across network, cloud, infrastructure, and security environments—correlating data from Microsoft Sentinel, Azure, and multiple monitoring platforms to resolve complex incidents. You’ll work with telecommunications carriers, ISPs, OEM vendors, cloud providers, and managed service partners to validate service availability and restore operations after maintenance or infrastructure changes. Ardent Principles offers advanced services in data science, data engineering, software engineering, AI solutions, cybersecurity, and IT program management. We offer a competitive salary range and a comprehensive, industry‑leading benefits package designed to support long‑term stability and employee well‑being. We provide more than a position—we offer a workplace committed to excellence, integrity, and mission‑focused impact. Our mission is to act as a bridge between satisfied clients and fulfilled employees, ensuring that your job and well-being are our top priorities because your satisfaction leads to the success of our clients. Join us as we continue building the future of secure, high‑impact solutions.

Requirements

Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph
Working with telecommunications carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), cloud providers, OEM vendors, managed service providers, or other third-party service providers.
Performing advanced troubleshooting of network, cloud, infrastructure, and security-related incidents.
Correlating information from Microsoft Sentinel, Azure, network monitoring systems, network mapping platforms, and other security tools during troubleshooting and incident investigations.
Working directly with telecommunications carriers, ISPs, OEM vendors, Microsoft/cloud providers, managed service providers, and other third-party vendors during complex incidents.
Validating network, cloud, security, and service availability following maintenance or infrastructure changes.
Identifying recurring operational issues and recommending technical, monitoring, process, or automation improvements.
Reviewing maintenance scope, affected services, dependencies, and scheduled implementation periods.
Monitoring operational impact during maintenance activities and coordinating escalation when unexpected issues occur.

Nice To Haves

Leading or managing personnel within a NOC, SOC/CSOC, enterprise operations center, or comparable 24x7 technical operations environment.
Progressively responsible experience in enterprise IT operations, network operations, cybersecurity operations, cloud operations, or related technical disciplines.
Supporting a Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC/CSOC), enterprise IT operations center, or comparable technical operations environment.
Significant experience with Microsoft Sentinel: alert monitoring, KQL log queries, entity analysis, runbooks, or escalation.
Significant experience with Azure skills: portal nav, Monitor/Log Analytics, VMs, Resource Health, or basic networking (VNets/NSGs).
Significant experience with Networking basics: TCP/IP, DNS/DHCP, subnetting, VLANs, routing, firewalls, VPNs, or LAN/WAN.
Significant experience with troubleshooting outages, connectivity, packet loss/latency, or CPU/memory issues.
Working with tools for topology, paths, assets, segmentation, or vulnerabilities.
Working with Kusto Query Language (KQL) for searching, filtering, correlating, and investigating Sentinel and Log Analytics data.

Responsibilities

Working with telecommunications carriers, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), cloud providers, OEM vendors, managed service providers, or other third-party service providers.
Performing advanced troubleshooting of network, cloud, infrastructure, and security-related incidents.
Correlating information from Microsoft Sentinel, Azure, network monitoring systems, network mapping platforms, and other security tools during troubleshooting and incident investigations.
Working directly with telecommunications carriers, ISPs, OEM vendors, Microsoft/cloud providers, managed service providers, and other third-party vendors during complex incidents.
Validating network, cloud, security, and service availability following maintenance or infrastructure changes.
Identifying recurring operational issues and recommending technical, monitoring, process, or automation improvements.
Reviewing maintenance scope, affected services, dependencies, and scheduled implementation periods.
Monitoring operational impact during maintenance activities and coordinating escalation when unexpected issues occur.