7+ years of hands-on technical experience managing large-scale networks including physical on-prem devices and their virtualized counterparts in one or more public cloud providers. Proven success at earning the trust of skeptical internal and external stakeholders. Troubleshooting complex BGP routing topologies that span public clouds, NAAS providers, internet exchanges, and multiple ISPs. Working with provider independent IP space / BYOIP in a public cloud or multiple ISP/NAAS provider context. Experience with VPCs, firewalls, security groups, virtual routers, load balancers, and private interconnects in one or more public cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI). Experience with complex DNS architectures involving self-hosted AD or BIND servers as well as managed DNS services such as GCP Cloud DNS or AWS Route 53. Troubleshooting vaguely defined network issues by analyzing network-level telemetry such as netflow or packet captures in conjunction with data obtained from endpoints via netstat, nslookup, etc. Implementation of Next-generation firewalls and other Layer 7 inspection mechanisms. Experience with mission-critical operational models such as ITIL or MOF. Experience with one or more network observability platforms that ingest large amounts of syslog, snmp, netflow, and similar telemetry. Solid familiarity with at least one scripting language (Python, Powershell, Bash, etc). Remote management of mission-critical network devices located in a colocation provider such as Equinix, Level 3, Sungar, Cologix or similar.