Network Engineer III

Is this you? Are you a Network Engineer III with experience working in cloud service provider environment that strives for customer excellence, revels in being a part of constant innovation, and enjoys being an important cog in the Cloud space? If so, then we'd love to hear from you.

Who are we? Glad you asked Opti9 is a trusted cloud solutions provider committed to delivering industry-leading, tailored solutions that meet the unique needs of businesses across a wide range of industries. We are a premier Veeam partner, as well as an AWS Premier Consulting Partner and Certified Solution Provider. Our expertise includes managed cloud, backup and replication, disaster recovery, security, and Microsoft 365 solutions. In the public cloud space, we specialize in migration, optimization, transformation, and cloud-first application consulting.

What sets us apart? A fun, casual, and collaborative culture that embraces fresh ideas, innovation, and a strong customer-first mindset. At Opti9, we work hard, support each other, and never shy away from a challenge. We believe in balancing results with a positive team spirit—and we’re always on the lookout for authentic, accountable individuals who are ready to grow with us and make an impact.

What would you do? As a Network Engineer III, you will be a part of a diverse and talented Cloud Networking team that works with a wide range of physical and logical technologies in the Cloud provider space. As a member of the team, you will be tasked with weekly and monthly customer facing projects that involve pushing our infrastructure to the next level while staying competitive in the marketplace we reside in. You will be pushing the boundaries on SDN, micro segmentation, logical circuit technologies, data center designs and concepts, etc. You will be working across multiple vendors for networking and security products that support our public and private cloud infrastructure. Primarily, this role will be focused on doing new customer deployments across our supporting technologies.

This role will require excellent interpersonal skills between internal teams and our customers representing the product workload owners. Also in this role, you will be acting as Tier 3 support to the Cloud Ops and NOC teams as needed outside of regular customer related projects.

What are the details?

Primary Responsibilities:

• Configure and support logical circuit connections across backbone to customer sites and regions such as Megaport, PacketFabric, ExpressRoute (Azure), DirectConnect (AWS), etc.

• Manage and maintain all data center and Colocation core and distro connectivity all the way down to the access level

• Manage all Networking/Security monitoring platforms and ensure adherence to customer and infrastructure SLA uptimes

• Utilize approved tools to verify and take required action on events aggregated from network monitoring tools and Web Application Firewall

• Troubleshoot and resolve sometimes complex network connectivity issues, adding/modifying NAT entries and firewall rules and initiating routes to enable connectivity

• Participate in occasional customer-facing projects involving design, diagrams, documentation, and implementation

• Execute new customer deployments involving NSX, security configurations, VMware Cloud Director network configurations, etc.

• Manage and maintain all data center and regional capacity on physical and logical circuit technologies supporting our public and private cloud infrastructure

• Manage, maintain, and improve the Opti9Tech SDWAN and VMware NSX (V/T) SDN infrastructure supporting customer and infrastructure workloads

• Regularly map and document customer and infrastructure diagrams to current and accurate versions

• Design and implement automation strategies that improve or co-exist with current automation infrastructure

• Mature our automation strategy using Python, Nautobot, Ansible, and other automation tie-ins

What do you know?

Technical Knowledge and Experience:

• 6+ years related experience in infrastructure/network environments and designing, planning, documenting and implementing LANs and WANs using latest technology

• 6+ years related experience with Cisco or Arista routing/switching/firewall products including IOS-XE, IOS-XR, and NX-OS service provider level infrastructure

• Proficiency in Python, Ansible, or similar automation technology

• Extensive experience with Cisco/Arista Spine & Leaf Data Center deployments

• Extensive experience with VMware vSphere, NSX-V & NSX-T SDN technologies