Platform Engineer (Network)

Evolent

1d•Remote

About The Position

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for people with most complex and costly health conditions. Working across specialties and primary care, they aim to connect the fragmented health care system and ensure people receive compassionate care. Evolent employees benefit from work/life balance, flexibility, and autonomy. The company values diversity and inclusion. As a member of the Platform Engineering organization, this role is part of a team managing the application suite and cloud infrastructure, with a heavy focus on networking. The team is redefining its approach to cloud infrastructure, networking, and application reliability. As a Platform Network Engineer within the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, the individual will be crucial in building a secure, scalable, and high-performing network foundation for next-generation platforms. The role is ideal for those excited by modern cloud networking, automation, and resilient system design.

Requirements

5+ years of expert‑level network security experience, including hands‑on work with Palo Alto firewalls and Azure Network Security Groups (NSG).
5+ years of network load‑balancing experience with technologies such as F5 BIG‑IP, HAProxy, and Azure Load Balancer.
Proven expertise in design and engineering large‑scale, complex network environments.
5+ years of deep technical experience in public cloud network design.
5+ years of advanced experience with core and edge switching, routing, and VLANs.
Experience building and deploying Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible.
Exceptional communication skills and comfort operating with a high level of transparency.
Ability to produce and maintain high‑quality network topology and architecture documentation.

Nice To Haves

Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP networking, Zscaler secure access solutions, and micro-segmentation implementations using Illumio.

Responsibilities

Building a best‑in‑class, Azure‑driven cloud networking environment that supports a rapidly evolving, multi‑cloud ecosystem.
Design, implement, and manage Azure networking components including VNets, VNet peering, Private Endpoints, Application Gateways, Load Balancers, NSG, Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, and ExpressRoute.
Applying your physical and cloud‑based network design expertise to interconnect systems using WAF (i.e Cloudflare), firewalls, load balancers, and routing protocols (BGP) across a predominantly cloud‑based infrastructure.
Partnering closely with infosec, engineering, and operations teams to shape a forward‑looking network architecture strategy aligned with the company’s growth.
Serving as the network Subject Matter Expert (SME), elevating team knowledge and cultivating strong relationships with key leaders and architects.
Reporting directly to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, with a strong dotted‑line partnership to the Platform Engineering Network Manager.
Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for networking, including automated provisioning of VNets, BGP routing, firewall rules, load balancers, F5 policies using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and drive true remediation to prevent recurrence.