Network SRE

Staff Network Site Reliability Engineer

Protingent Staffing has an exciting Direct Hire Staff Network Site Reliability Engineer opportunity located in Fort Meade, MD

• Serve as a technical leader within a Federal SRE team, partnering with software engineers, architects, and product teams to design, build, and operate highly reliable, secure cloud services
• Design and implement scalable, highly available network solutions across cloud environments
• Maintain a highly available cloud infrastructure edge for an enterprise identity platform
• Collect and analyze data to find root causes of network-specific events
• Automate AWS infrastructure with Terraform, following an "if you do it more than once, automate it" mindset
• Improve efficiency, scalability, and velocity through platform engineering, observability, and operational excellence
• Support systems operating under Federal and DoD compliance frameworks (FedRAMP, IL6)

• Proven experience with Federal and DoD compliance frameworks, specifically FedRAMP and Impact Level 6 (IL6); familiarity with SC2S/C2S 8+ years of experience as a Cloud Network Engineer or in a related role
• In-depth understanding of the TCP/IP stack (Layers 2-7), including highly available VPC design and inter-VPC connectivity
• Working knowledge of stateless and stateful firewalls, DNS, web application firewalls, and cloud load balancing methods
• Deep knowledge of AWS networking:
  Transit Gateway, Site-to-Site VPN, and Direct Connect
• Experience with Apache httpd, nginx, Apache Tomcat, or similar
• Ability to troubleshoot using AWS VPC Flow Logs, Cloud Watch metrics, and packet captures
• Experience with Terraform and git
• Strong collaboration skills across multiple stakeholders

• Bash, Python, or Golang scripting
• Palo Alto next-gen virtual firewalls (security policies, routing, Global Protect)
• Debugging with gdb, strace, ltrace, tcpdump, Wireshark
• Docker and Kubernetes

• Job Type: Direct Hire
• Location:
  
  Fort Meade, MD
• Pay Rate Range:
  Market Rate
• U.S. Citizenship: TS/SCI clearance with Full Scope Polygraph required

Protingent is an Award-Winning provider of top-tier Engineering and IT talent, trusted by companies at the forefront of innovation - from Software and Aerospace to AI, Clean Tech, Medical Devices, and Connected Technologies. We're passionate about making a positive impact by connecting exceptional talent with meaningful opportunities and helping our clients build the future.