Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Parsons Corporation•Reston, VA

3d•$176,900 - $332,400

About The Position

Parsons is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to help modernize and scale the network architecture for a mission-critical global platform operating across remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments. This role is ideal for an engineer who understands both the realities of physical field networking and the design of cloud-native, software-defined network fabrics. You will help transform a legacy, static, IP-heavy networking estate into a more virtualized, elastic, observable, and cloud-managed architecture. This includes hybrid connectivity from physical networks and appliances into AWS, building resilient virtual network topologies, and designing for highly variable traffic patterns ranging from steady-state operations to large event-driven surges. We are especially interested in engineers who can combine deep networking fundamentals, AWS cloud networking, automation/IaC, and emerging AIOps/telemetry-driven operations to improve reliability, scalability, and operational insight.

Requirements

8+ years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering
Strong hands-on experience with AWS networking in production, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, and security segmentation and routing design
Strong networking fundamentals, including IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, high availability/failover, and network security fundamentals
Experience connecting physical networks into cloud-based virtual networks
Experience with Terraform or similar infrastructure-as-code tooling
Experience troubleshooting across network, platform, and application boundaries
Support for high-availability, mission-critical, or globally distributed systems
An active Top Secret SCI security clearance is required for this position.

Nice To Haves

Experience with virtual firewalls/appliances such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent
Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD workflows
Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or large-scale WAN modernization
Experience with network observability tools and platforms such as Grafana, ELK, Kibana, flow log analysis, and synthetic monitoring
Experience applying AIOps, analytics, or ML-assisted techniques to anomaly detection, capacity planning, traffic analysis, and incident reduction
Experience with remote systems, low bandwidth, or unreliable connections
AWS certifications or equivalent practical cloud networking depth

Responsibilities

Design and implement hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS
Build and modernize VPC-based network fabrics using AWS services
Integrate physical firewalls, routed networks, and VPN-connected sites with virtual cloud networking and security appliances
Reduce dependence on static routing and static public IP-heavy designs by introducing more flexible, software-defined, policy-driven network patterns
Design for burst traffic, event-driven surges, failover, and high availability
Create repeatable network deployments using Terraform, automation, and infrastructure-as-code practices
Improve network observability through flow logs, metrics, synthetic tests, alerting, and telemetry pipelines
Contribute to AIOps/capacity planning initiatives using telemetry for anomaly detection, forecasting, and faster incident response
Partner with cloud platform, field communications, software, observability, and security teams to deliver reliable end-to-end connectivity