Responsibilities

Blink Health is looking for a Principal Network Engineer to set the technical direction for our network and connectivity strategy across our offices and cloud environments. You’ll own the architecture of our routing, switching, VPN, firewall, and cloud networking infrastructure, and act as the company’s senior authority on network design, security, and resilience. This is a hands-on, high-influence role for someone who can design for scale, solve the hardest problems, and raise the bar for the engineers around them.
Define and own Blink’s network architecture and multi-year roadmap across on-prem and AWS, including Meraki, Palo Alto, AWS VPC, and AWS Transit Gateway
Serve as the senior technical authority for network design in a microservices and container-based environment (AWS, Kubernetes), partnering with engineering, security, and platform teams on high-impact decisions
Drive network-as-code and automation (IaC, CI/CD, config management) to make the network repeatable, auditable, and self-service where possible
Establish network design standards and guardrails for security, compliance, redundancy, and high availability, and ensure they are adopted across teams
Lead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of new products and solutions, building business cases and presenting recommendations to IT and engineering leadership
Lead architecture for complex initiatives such as new site build-outs, cloud migrations, network segmentation, zero trust, and M&A integration
Serve as the final technical escalation point for critical incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive systemic fixes
Partner with security to define hardening and patching standards, and to investigate and remediate security incidents with network impact
Design observability and monitoring strategy for network health, performance, and capacity planning
Mentor and develop network, systems, and service desk staff; build runbooks and training that scale expertise across the team
Own technical documentation and architecture decision records for critical systems

Principal Network Engineer at Blink Health · LumiJobs

Principal Network Engineer

Responsibilities

Qualification

Required

Preferred

Company

Blink Health

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