Senior Cloud Network Engineer

Parsons•Reston, VA

1d•$176,900 - $332,400

About The Position

Parsons is seeking a Senior Cloud Network Engineer to modernize and scale the network architecture for a mission-critical global platform operating across remote sites, centralized hubs, and AWS cloud environments. The role is part of the Federal Solutions team, which serves U.S. government customers in defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental missions. An active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph security clearance is required.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
15+ years of experience in network engineering, cloud networking, or hybrid infrastructure engineering.
Strong production experience with AWS networking, including VPC design, Transit Gateway, VPN/IPsec, Direct Connect, PrivateLink, Route 53, segmentation, and routing.
Deep networking fundamentals, including IP networking, routing, BGP, NAT, DNS, high availability/failover, and network security.
Experience integrating physical networks with cloud-based virtual networks.
Experience with Terraform or similar tooling.
Active Top Secret SCI with Polygraph security clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with virtual firewalls such as Cisco ASA/Firepower, Palo Alto, or Fortinet.
Experience with network automation using Python, Ansible, or CI/CD.
Experience with SD-WAN, network virtualization, or WAN modernization.
Experience with observability tools such as Grafana, ELK/Kibana, flow logs, or synthetic monitoring.
Experience applying AIOps or analytics for anomaly detection, capacity forecasting, or incident reduction.

Responsibilities

Lead the design and implementation of hybrid network architectures spanning field sites, centralized environments, and AWS.
Oversee the build-out of VPC-based network fabrics and resilient virtual topologies using AWS services.
Integrate and guide alignment between physical firewalls and routed networks and cloud-based virtual networking and security appliances.
Drive adoption of software-defined, policy-driven networking patterns.
Improve reliability and operational insight through repeatable network deployments, infrastructure as code, observability, and telemetry-driven improvements.