Network Platform Engineer

About Evolent

Your Future Evolves Here

Evolent partners with health plans and providers to achieve better outcomes for individuals with complex and costly health conditions. We work across specialties and primary care to connect the fragmented pieces of the health care system, ensuring everyone receives the same level of care and compassion we would want for our loved ones.

At Evolent, we value work/life balance, flexible arrangements, and the autonomy necessary to get the job done. We believe that great work comes from supporting our employees in living their best lives while embracing their true selves at work. That's why diversity and inclusion are fundamental to our mission.

Join Evolent for our mission and stay for the culture.

What You'll Be Doing:

As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will manage our extensive application suite and cloud infrastructure, focusing primarily on networking challenges.

In this role within our Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) organization, you'll help redefine our approach to cloud infrastructure, networking, and application reliability. As a Network Platform Engineer, you'll play a crucial role in building a secure, scalable, and high-performance network foundation that supports our future platforms. If you are passionate about modern cloud networking, automation, and resilient system design, you will thrive in this innovative environment.

Responsibilities:

• Develop a best-in-class, Azure-driven cloud networking environment that facilitates our rapidly evolving multi-cloud ecosystem.
• Design, implement, and manage Azure networking components, including VNets, VNet peering, Private Endpoints, Application Gateways, Load Balancers, NSG, Azure DNS, Azure Firewall, and ExpressRoute.
• Utilize your expertise in both physical and cloud-based network design to interconnect systems using WAF, firewalls, load balancers, and BGP routing protocols across predominantly cloud-based infrastructures.
• Collaborate closely with infosec, engineering, and operations teams to develop a forward-looking network architecture strategy aligned with company growth.
• Act as the network Subject Matter Expert (SME), enhancing team knowledge and building strong relationships with key leaders and architects.
• Report directly to the Director of Site Reliability Engineering, with a strong dotted-line relationship to the Platform Engineering Network Manager.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for networking, including automated provisioning of VNets, BGP routing, firewall rules, load balancers, and F5 policies using Terraform, Ansible, and GitOps workflows.
• Engage in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) to drive remediation and prevent recurrence of issues.

Required Experience:

• 5+ years of expert-level network security experience, specifically with Palo Alto firewalls and Azure Network Security Groups (NSG).
• 5+ years of experience in network load-balancing technologies like F5 BIG-IP, HAProxy, and Azure Load Balancer.
• Proven expertise in designing and engineering large-scale, complex network environments.
• 5+ years of deep technical experience in public cloud network design.
• 5+ years of advanced experience with core and edge switching, routing, and VLANs.
• Experience in building and deploying Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform and Ansible.
• Exceptional communication skills and comfort operating with high transparency.
• Ability to create and maintain high-quality network topology and architecture documentation.
• Bonus: Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP networking, Zscaler secure access solutions, and micro-segmentation implementations using Illumio.

Technical Requirements:

All employees must have high-speed internet of over 10 Mbps at home. For all call center employees, a direct connection to the home internet router is required.

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer

Evolent is an equal opportunity employer and considers all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or disability status. If you need reasonable accommodation to access the information provided on this website, please contact recruitingteam@evolent.com for further assistance.

Compensation

The expected base salary for this position ranges from $120,000 to $135,000. As part of our total compensation package, Evolent offers comprehensive benefits, including health insurance, to eligible employees. All compensation determinations are based on the skills and experience required for the position.