Senior Cloud Network Engineer, Platform

Summary

Join Gemini's Platform team as a Senior Cloud Network Engineer and play a key role in developing and maintaining our network infrastructure, encompassing cloud services and on-premise facilities. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to build a highly scalable and resilient network infrastructure for continuous availability. Develop, implement, and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure. Leverage automation tools like Terraform, Ansible, and Python scripting. Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues. This role requires in-person presence twice a week in either Seattle, WA or New York City, NY. The ideal candidate possesses 5+ years of networking experience and 3+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture.

Requirements

• 5+ years networking experience
• 3+ years of experience with large-scale multi-VPC AWS Network Architecture and IAC integration such as Terraform, Ansible for resource provisioning and management
• Experience at writing scripts or CLI tools that help increase automation and Developer Productivity in high-level languages like Python, Go, etc
• Experience with designing and implementing network architectures using Amazon Transit Gateway to manage direct connect networks and inter-region routing
• Experience with network security concepts and technologies, including centralized inspection firewalls, IDS/IPS, encryption, and access controls
• Experience with ANF, ALBs, NLBs, Global Accelerator, AWS WAF and Shield for Ingress traffic control from the Internet
• Experience in zero trust environments
• Knowledge of Network Management and Analytical tools such as DataDog, Grafana, logic-monitor, flow logs, cloudwatch, etc
• Experience with Kubernetes and service Mesh technologies, Istio, Envoy, Linkerd, etc
• Experience with Linux, performance, interfaces, routing, and iptables
• Good understanding of network design principles, including segmentation, load balancing, fault tolerance, and performance optimization
• Strong understanding of networking principles, protocols, and technologies (TCP/IP, DNS, VPN, VLAN, BGP, HSRP, VRFs, IGMP, OSPF, BGP, etc)
• Strong collaboration skills for effective communication with cross-functional teams, including developers, platform engineers, security teams, and business stakeholders
• Solid organizational skills, attention to detail and excellent communication skills

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement and support AWS multi-VPC, multi-region cloud network infrastructure
• Evaluate and implement new network infrastructure and topologies
• Leverage automation tools—including Terraform, Terragrunt, Ansible, and Python scripting—to enhance productivity, streamline workflows, and accelerate technology deployments
• Continually drive improvements in network performance to support various business services
• Troubleshoot infrastructure and application performance issues, find and improve performance bottlenecks
• Participate in the team's on-call rotation

Preferred Qualifications

Robust experience in a fast-paced financial services or financial trading environment or Large-Scale Web presence company

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off