Sr. Cloud Engineer

Duration: 6+ months Compensation: $45-60/hr Location: 100% REMOTE Responsibilities: • Provides Level 3 design, engineering implementation & support for the Cloud Network Engineering team. • Participates in after-hours implementation. • Perform advanced Cloud (Azure, GCP, OCI, AWS and other) Network design, implementation and troubleshooting. • Perform advanced Palo Alto design, implementation and troubleshooting. • Perform advanced Cisco Nexus Route/Switch design, implementation and troubleshooting. • Review Humana provided business requirements with Humana Cloud Network Architects & Engineering team. Includes, but not limited to, Cisco Nexus switches, Arista switches, and Palo Alto firewall, GCP & Azure Networking. • Create High Level Design & diagrams based on provided business requirements. • Create Low Level Design & diagrams based on provided High Level Design diagrams. • Create Low Level Design cabling matrix based on provided High Level Design diagrams. • Verify all necessary equipment and WAN circuits are in stock or have already been ordered. • If additional equipment or WAN circuits are needed, quote them, and work with Humana network leadership to get them ordered. • Create implementation plan (build/deploy plan), verification, and backout to accomplish Low Level Design. • Create implementation Change ticketing in ServiceNOW, and coordinate/communicate outage windows following Humana standards. • Implement (perform build/deploy) - with appropriate change ticketing/coordination. • Perform post implementation validation/verification and performance testing - document results and provide to Humana. • Update inventory spreadsheet as new equipment is added Requirements: • Familiarity with how to setup BGP routing between Data Center Colo and Cloud providers. • Enterprise hands-on experience with implementation and troubleshooting of with Palo Alto Firewalls (Strata and virtual) using Panorama Firewall Management • Enterprise experience with Azure and GCP virtual private cloud setup, deployment and troubleshooting - vWAN, Expressroute, NCC, Partner Interconnect • Enterprise experience and knowledge of Automation tools - specifically, Github, Github Actions, and Terraform. • Expert knowledge of Route, Switch and Firewall design, implementation and troubleshooting • Enterprise hands-on experience with implementation and troubleshooting of Cisco Nexus 9000s switches (Nexus OS, VPC). • Certifications helpful: Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate, Google Cloud Professional Network Engineer or Cisco CCNP - Data Center.