Role: Principal Network Reliability Engineer
Experience: - Min 10+ Years
Location: - USA Remote
Principal Network Reliability Engineer responsible for architecting, securing, automating, and optimizing highly available network platforms across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, leveraging SRE, Platform Engineering, and DevOps principles to drive operational excellence and network resiliency.
Responsibilities: -
- Design and evolve highly available, resilient network platforms supporting enterprise and cloud-native healthcare applications.
- Architect secure, scalable networking solutions across hybrid data centers and public cloud environments while remaining cloud-provider agnostic.
- Lead modernization initiatives supporting the evolution from traditional enterprise networking to software-defined, cloud-native networking.
- Develop Infrastructure as Code, network automation, and policy-as-code solutions that eliminate manual configuration and improve deployment consistency.
- Design and maintain resilient connectivity supporting Kubernetes platforms, container networking, service meshes, APIs, and microservices-based applications.
- Establish enterprise network observability through telemetry, flow analytics, synthetic monitoring, distributed tracing, and proactive ing.
- Lead root cause analysis and drive long-term corrective actions following critical network and cloud connectivity incidents.
- Partner with Platform Engineering, Security, and Application Engineering teams to improve production readiness, Zero Trust networking, and cloud connectivity.
- Develop engineering standards, reusable automation, and technical documentation that improve operational consistency and reduce complexity.
- Evaluate emerging networking technologies and recommend architectural improvements that increase resiliency, scalability, security, and operational efficiency.
- Mentor engineers while serving as the highest-level technical authority for networking strategy, automation, and cloud networking architecture.
- Support strategic cloud initiatives across AWS and Google Cloud while designing solutions that remain portable across cloud providers where practical.
Educational Qualifications: -
- Engineering Degree BE/ME/BTech/MTech/BSc/MSc.
- Technical certification in multiple technologies is desirable.
Skills: -
Mandatory skills
- Min10+ years of experience designing and supporting enterprise network platforms in production environments.
- Expert knowledge of enterprise routing, switching, SD-WAN, data center networking, and cloud networking technologies.
- Strong experience designing hybrid and public cloud network architectures across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or equivalent cloud platforms.
- Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes networking, container networking, service mesh technologies, and modern application connectivity patterns.
- Experience implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), network automation, and DevOps practices using Terraform, Ansible, Python, or similar technologies.
- Strong background supporting enterprise SaaS platforms, distributed systems, and high-availability network architectures.
- Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, reliability engineering initiatives, and operational excellence programs.
- Proven ability to mentor engineers and influence enterprise architecture, engineering standards, and networking strategies.
- Strong understanding of Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), Platform Engineering, Zero Trust networking, and cloud-native networking principles.
Good to Have Skills
- Healthcare, SaaS, or regulated industry experience.
- Expertise designing secure, highly available, cloud-native network architectures.
- Experience with Software-Defined Networking (SDN), SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and cloud-native networking services.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, ThousandEyes, or similar network telemetry solutions.
- Experience implementing GitOps, CI/CD pipelines, and infrastructure automation for network platforms.
- Strong understanding of DNS, load balancing, API gateways, ingress controllers, and traffic management technologies.
- Cisco CCIE (Enterprise Infrastructure, Security, or Data Center) or equivalent expert-level networking certification.
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Network Engineer or AWS Advanced Networking Specialty certification.
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA).
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate or equivalent Infrastructure as Code certification.
- Relevant SRE, Zero Trust, or cloud networking certifications
VeeRteq Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer