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At Justworks, you’ll enjoy a welcoming and casual environment, great benefits, wellness program offerings, company retreats, and the ability to interact with and learn from leaders in the startup community. We work hard and care about our most prized asset - our people.
We’re helping businesses get off the ground by enabling them to focus on running their business. We solve HR issues. We’re data-driven and never stop iterating. If you’d like to work in a supportive, entrepreneurial environment, are interested in building something meaningful and having fun while doing it, we’d love to hear from you.
We're united by shared goals and shared motivations at Justworks. These are best summed up in our company values, which are reflected in our product and in our team.
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Department: Engineering
Who You AreWe are seeking a highly skilled Senior Cloud Network Engineer with deep expertise in cloud infrastructure, advanced networking, and security, specifically within AWS and Meraki environments. Your role will be pivotal in optimizing and advancing our cloud-based network infrastructure, driving innovation, and ensuring seamless network performance across hybrid cloud architectures. You will lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of cloud-based networking strategies, with a focus on performance, scalability, and security.
As a Senior Cloud Network Engineer, your primary responsibility will be to architect, manage, and secure our AWS cloud network and Meraki cloud-managed networks. You will be at the forefront of ensuring robust cloud network connectivity, scalability, and security, contributing significantly to network infrastructure strategy and execution. You will also act as an escalation point for complex cloud networking issues, collaborating closely with IT and Security teams to ensure alignment with business needs and cloud best practices.
Your Success ProfileWhat You Will Work On- Network Performance Monitoring
- Use AWS CloudWatch to monitor cloud network infrastructure performance, identifying and resolving issues related to network throughput, latency, and availability across AWS regions.
- Network Security Management
- Ensure that security controls such as security groups, network ACLs, and VPN configurations are in place and regularly updated to maintain a secure cloud environment.
- Network Design & Optimization
- Design, configure, and optimize AWS Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) environments, including management of subnets, routing tables, VPNs, inter-VPC peering, and transit gateway architecture for secure, scalable cloud connectivity.
- Network Expansion & Capacity Planning
- Lead initiatives to scale cloud network infrastructure in AWS, integrating new regions, services, or locations with minimal disruption.
- Evaluate cloud network growth and future needs, ensuring both AWS and Meraki networks meet organizational demands for traffic throughput and high availability.
- Network Troubleshooting & Support
- Proactively troubleshoot network issues related to performance, connectivity, or security in both AWS cloud and Meraki cloud networks, ensuring minimal downtime and fast resolution.
- Use cloud-native and third-party tools for detailed diagnostics of cloud networking issues, including VPNs, routing, and connectivity across AWS environments.
In the Senior Network Engineer role, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:
- Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
- Resourcefulness - taking a can-do approach, even in the face of obstacles and constraints by assessing what’s in front of you and effectively and efficiently optimizing what you have, whether it's working on something new or thinking about how to do something better.
- Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
- Influence and leadership - fostering a community of knowledge-sharing, collaboration, mentorship, and forward-thinking.
- Skills and knowledge - the capacity to actively learn and apply specific domain knowledge, know-how, and best practices to continually enhance and improve.
- Customer Focus - Strong orientation towards understanding and meeting the needs of internal and external customers.
In addition, all Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:
- Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
- Openness - Your default is to be open. You're willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
- Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
- Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you'll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example.
- Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”
- Experience: 5+ years of experience in cloud network engineering, focusing on cloud environments (primarily AWS) and cloud-managed networking (such as Meraki). Experience with high-level cloud networking concepts like VPNs, Transit Gateways, and hybrid architectures.
- Certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect or AWS Certified Advanced Networking preferred; Cisco CCNA preferred. Meraki or other cloud network certifications a plus.
- Strategic Thinking: Strong background in designing and implementing cloud-native network architectures that enhance business agility and scalability.
- Problem-Solving: Proven ability to troubleshoot and resolve complex cloud network issues related to routing, security, and performance.
- Communication: Strong ability to communicate technical information to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Leadership: Experience in mentoring teams and driving cloud network initiatives, ensuring collaboration and innovation across cloud infrastructure teams.
- Cloud Network Architecture: Expertise in designing and managing AWS VPCs, including subnets, routing tables, inter-region connectivity, and security services. Proficiency in using AWS Transit Gateway for scalable network architectures and AWS Direct Connect for hybrid environments.
- Routing & Switching: Expertise in dynamic routing protocols (OSPF, BGP) within cloud environments, ensuring optimal network routing across AWS regions and Meraki networks.
- Cloud Network Security: Expertise in securing cloud networks with AWS Security Groups, Network ACLs, and configuring Meraki security appliances. Experience in implementing Zero Trust principles within cloud environments.
- Cloud Networking Services: In-depth experience with cloud networking tools and services, including AWS Direct Connect, Transit Gateway, VPC Peering, VPN, and Meraki cloud-managed networks. Experience with using terraform to manage these is a plus.
- VPN & Hybrid Connectivity: Strong experience in establishing secure site-to-site and client VPN connections within AWS, as well as integrating hybrid on-prem/cloud environments.
- Advanced Troubleshooting: Expertise in diagnosing complex network issues using cloud-native tools such as AWS CloudWatch, VPC Flow Logs, and Meraki diagnostic tools.
The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $167,500.00 to $184,250.00 per year.
Actual compensation is based on multiple factors that are unique to each candidate, including and not limited to skill set, level of relevant experience, and specific work location. Salary ranges for positions based in other locations may differ based on the cost of labor in that location.
For more information about Justworks’ Total Reward Philosophy, including all of the perks and benefits we are proud to offer our team members, please visit Total Rewards @ Justworks.
Diversity At JustworksJustworks is committed to maintaining a workplace where diversity of identity, culture, and life experience is the norm and is celebrated authentically and respected consistently. Diversity in our work, our people, and our product drives creativity and innovation, entrepreneurial leadership and integrity, competitiveness, and collaboration throughout our business and in the market. We depend on our differences to make our team stronger, our workplace more dynamic, and our product accessible to all of our customers.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer open to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or familial status, disability, pregnancy, gender identity or expression, veteran status, genetic information, or any other legally protected status. Justworks is fully dedicated to providing necessary support to candidates with disabilities who may require reasonable accommodations. We also provide reasonable accommodations to employees based on their sincerely held religious beliefs, as well as for other covered reasons consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. If you're in need of a reasonable accommodation, please reach out to us at accommodations@justworks.com. Your comfort and success matter to us, and we're here to ensure an inclusive experience.
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