Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer/Networking Specialist

GAP Solutions Inc • Herndon, VA • 6h ago

**This position is a one-year assignment, with an estimated start date of September 1, 2025, and an anticipated end date of August 31, 2026.

Position Objective:** The DMAC EDAV team is seeking an Azure Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Networking Specialist to join our collaborative engineering team. In this role, you'll focus on designing, maintaining, and optimizing a complex Azure-based platform with an emphasis on networking, connectivity, and security. Your expertise will ensure the reliability, performance, and security of mission-critical applications and services across the organization.

This role is ideal for an engineer who excels at diagnosing and resolving complex networking challenges in hybrid and cloud environments, and who can collaborate across teams to design secure, scalable infrastructure solutions.

Duties & Responsibilities:

Design, implement, and maintain secure, scalable Azure network architectures, including VNets, subnets, firewalls, NSGs, and routing.

Configure and optimize Azure networking services such as VPN Gateway, ExpressRoute, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, and Front Door.

Lead advanced troubleshooting across hybrid network environments, authentication flows, and Azure connectivity services.

Ensure high availability, performance, and security of Azure networking and infrastructure components.

Collaborate with security and platform teams to design secure service-to-service and hybrid connectivity solutions.

Maintain infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep).

Contribute to the evolution of network monitoring, alerting, and incident response processes.

Ensure compliance with enterprise security, identity, and access control policies.

Qualifications

Basic Qualifications:

5+ years in cloud infrastructure (Azure) and advanced network engineering.

Hands-on expertise with Azure networking components: VNets, subnets, VNet peering, ExpressRoute, VPN Gateway, Azure Firewall, Application Gateway, Front Door, and Load Balancers.

Strong understanding of networking concepts: DNS, firewalls, routing, BGP, HTTP/S, SSL/TLS, IP addressing, and the OSI model.

Experience with hybrid cloud connectivity solutions and network security best practices.

Proficiency with Infrastructure-as-Code (Terraform, ARM templates, or Bicep).

Hands-on experience managing and troubleshooting Azure AD, RBAC, and network access policies.

Familiarity with identity and authentication protocols (OIDC, SAML, LDAP).

Experience with CI/CD tools for infrastructure deployments (GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps).

Strong communication and collaboration skills across infrastructure, security, and operations teams.

Minimum Qualifications:

Experience designing secure, high-performance Azure network topologies for enterprise-scale workloads.

Background in enterprise network engineering, including integration of on-premises and cloud networks.

Experience in operational support and incident response for large-scale, distributed systems.

Familiarity with cloud-native security architectures and zero-trust networking models.

*This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required by this position.

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

GAP Solutions provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. If you need an accommodation to apply for a job, email us at recruiting@gapsi.com . You will need to reference the requisition number of the position in which you are interested. Your message will be routed to the appropriate recruiter who will assist you. Please note, this email address is only to be used for those individuals who need an accommodation to apply for a job. Emails for any other reason or those that do not include a requisition number will not be returned.

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veteran status or other characteristics protected by law.

This position is contingent upon contract award.

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