Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Evolent is a health technology company that partners with health plans and providers to improve health outcomes. The Platform Engineer (Network) will focus on managing cloud infrastructure and networking, playing a key role in building a secure and scalable network foundation for the company’s platforms.
Responsibilities
- Building a best‑in‑class, Azure‑driven cloud networking environment that supports a rapidly evolving, multi‑cloud ecosystem
- Design, implement, and manage Azure networking components including VNets, VNet peering, Private Endpoints, Application Gateways, Load Balancers, NSG, Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, and ExpressRoute
- Applying your physical and cloud‑based network design expertise to interconnect systems using WAF (i.e Cloudflare), firewalls, load balancers, and routing protocols (BGP) across a predominantly cloud‑based infrastructure
- Partnering closely with infosec, engineering, and operations teams to shape a forward‑looking network architecture strategy aligned with the company’s growth
- Serving as the network Subject Matter Expert (SME), elevating team knowledge and cultivating strong relationships with key leaders and architects
- Reporting directly to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, with a strong dotted‑line partnership to the Platform Engineering Network Manager
- Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for networking, including automated provisioning of VNets, BGP routing, firewall rules, load balancers, F5 policies using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows
- Participate in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and drive true remediation to prevent recurrence
Skills
- 5+ years of expert-level network security experience, including hands-on work with Palo Alto firewalls and Azure Network Security Groups (NSG)
- 5+ years of network load-balancing experience with technologies such as F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, and Azure Load Balancer
- Proven expertise in design and engineering large-scale, complex network environments
- 5+ years of deep technical experience in public cloud network design
- 5+ years of advanced experience with core and edge switching, routing, and VLANs
- Experience building and deploying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using tools such as Terraform and Ansible
- Exceptional communication skills and comfort operating with a high level of transparency
- Ability to produce and maintain high-quality network topology and architecture documentation
- Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP networking
- Zscaler secure access solutions
- Micro-segmentation implementations using Illumio
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits (including health insurance benefits) to qualifying employees
Company Overview
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