Principal Network Engineer

Principal Network Engineer

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Our client is looking for a Principal Network Engineer to join their team. Principal Network Engineers, as members of the Cloud Engineering team, are responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining reliable, scalable, secure, performant, and cost‑effective networking solutions across multiple data centers and public cloud environments.

• Data center evaluation, onboarding, and management
• ISP evaluation, onboarding, and management
• Networking design, configuration, and monitoring
• Hardware evaluation, qualification, onboarding, and management
• Capacity planning
• Utilize Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and centralized secrets storage to automate provisioning and management of infrastructure, ensuring consistent and repeatable environments.
• Implement robust observability solutions to monitor system performance (logs, metrics, traces) using tools like Prometheus and Grafana.
• Configure alerting for proactive issue resolution.
• Oversee installation, configuration, patching, and updating of network equipment to ensure reliable, secure, performant, cost‑effective operation.
• Optimize resource allocation to ensure efficient utilization of hardware capabilities.

Salary: $180,000 - $200,000 per year (depends on experience level)

Medical Insurance, PTO, 401(k), and more.

Peterson Technology Partners (PTP) is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to creating a transparent, inclusive, and human‑centered hiring experience.

For over 27 years, PTP has operated as one of the top IT staffing and recruiting firms in the USA, built on trust, long‑term partnerships, and technical excellence.

Based in the Chicago suburb of Park Ridge, IL, our team of more than 500 employees and consultants is dedicated to helping every client make the best hiring decisions possible and matching professionals with the right IT jobs and career opportunities.

Peterson Technology Partners is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.