Sr Network Engineer and SRE Hybrid

Featured in CNBC, Digital Journal, Fox News, and CIO Review, GBSI is a globally recognized IT services leader with 20+ years serving Fortune 500 organizations. Our teams deliver solutions across automotive, manufacturing, retail, and pharmaceutical industries. Headquartered in Moline, IL, GBSI supports clients and consultants throughout the US, Canada, Europe, and India.

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We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Network Engineer to lead the design, automation, and modernization of enterprise network infrastructure across hybrid environments. This role is responsible for building highly resilient, secure, software-defined network architectures spanning on-premises data centers, private cloud, and public cloud platforms.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in network engineering, Infrastructure as Code (Terraform), scripting, network isolation, micro-segmentation, and cloud networking. This individual will partner closely with Cloud Engineering, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, SRE, and Application teams to deliver secure, scalable, and automated networking solutions aligned with Zero Trust principles.

• Design, implement, and support highly available enterprise network infrastructure across:
• On-premises data centers
• Private cloud platforms
• AWS
• Microsoft Azure
• Engineer resilient Layer 2/Layer 3 network architectures including:
• Routing
• Switching
• BGP
• OSPF
• VXLAN/EVPN
• SDN technologies
• Design network architectures supporting critical enterprise resiliency and disaster recovery.

• Build Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform.
• Develop reusable Terraform modules and standardized deployment patterns.
• Automate network provisioning and configuration management.
• Integrate automation into Git-based CI/CD pipelines.
• Eliminate manual networking activities through automation-first engineering.

• Develop automation using:
• Python
• Power Shell
• Bash
• REST APIs
• Automate:
• Network provisioning
• Configuration validation
• Compliance verification
• Drift detection
• Operational reporting
• Health monitoring

• Lead enterprise initiatives involving:
• Network isolation strategies
• Secure enclave design
• Air-gapped environments
• Isolated Recovery Environments (IRE)
• Secure management networks
• Recovery network architectures
• Design secure separation between:
• Production
• Non-production
• Recovery environments
• Cyber Recovery environments
• Management networks

• Design and implement enterprise micro-segmentation utilizing technologies such as:
• VMware NSX
• Illumio
• Cisco Secure Workload (formerly Tetration)
• Cloud-native security groups
• Azure Network Security Groups
• AWS Security Groups
• Network ACLs
• Responsibilities include:
• East-West traffic control
• Zero Trust network architectures
• Least-privilege network access
• Dynamic policy enforcement
• Application dependency mapping

• Engineer networking solutions across:
• AWS
• VPCs
• Transit Gateway
• Direct Connect
• Route Tables
• Private Link
• Network Firewall
• Azure
• VNets
• Express Route
• Virtual WAN
• Azure Firewall
• NSGs
• Application Gateway
• Azure Load Balancer

• Collaborate with Cyber Security to implement:
• Zero Trust networking
• Network Access Control
• Secure remote connectivity
• Firewall architecture
• IDS/IPS
• DDoS protection
• Secure DNS
• Certificate management
• Encryption in transit

• Design networking solutions supporting:
• High Availability
• Disaster Recovery
• Active-Active architectures
• Active-Passive architectures
• Multi-region cloud deployments
• Automated failover
• Resilient routing
• Critical application recovery

• Implement enterprise network observability using tools such as:
• Thousand Eyes
• Solar Winds
• Dynatrace
• Splunk
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Cloud-native monitoring solutions
• Develop dashboards, KPIs, and automated alerting for proactive network operations.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 8+ years of enterprise network engineering experience. (Overall 15 years required)
• 5+ years supporting hybrid cloud networking. (Overall 15 years required)
• 3+ years of Terraform Infrastructure as Code experience. (Overall 15 years required)
• Strong experience with Python, Power Shell, or Bash scripting.
• Extensive experience with enterprise routing and switching.
• Experience…