Principal Network Engineer

Job Description

We have partnered with our client in the search for a Principal Network Engineer who has expertise in data center and on-premises networking. This position is well-suited for an engineer who has stayed grounded in physical infrastructure rather than shifting toward cloud-first environments

Job Type: Contract to Hire or Direct Hire

Job Location: Hybrid - Dallas-Fort Worth, TX Metroplex

This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship. No Corp to Corp or 3rd party agencies.

Responsibilities:

Design, deploy, and maintain high-performance networks across multiple on-premises data centers and hybrid platforms, while applying modern automation and monitoring strategies to ensure stability, scalability, and resilience.

Assess and onboard data centers, ISPs, and networking hardware

Configure and monitor network infrastructure, ensuring security, performance, and scalability

Automate infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools

Drive efficient hardware usage through strategic capacity planning

Deploy and manage observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana) with alerts for proactive troubleshooting

Ensure secure and reliable deployment environments using centralized secrets management and automated patching.

Skills and Experience:

Strong knowledge of networking protocols, architecture, services, and security practices

Deep understanding of Linux OS internals with a focus on network performance and tuning

Experienced in building and managing networking infrastructure across physical data centers and public cloud integrations

Hands-on experience with virtualization platforms and tuning for network reliability

Experience using monitoring platforms like Datadog, CloudWatch, Site24x7, or Dynatrace

Skilled in configuring and troubleshooting network hardware/software and analyzing packet captures

Proficiency with container ecosystems (Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, Helm)

Knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, OpenTofu, Pulumi)

Configuration management experience with tools such as Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Proficiency with version control tools (Git, Sourcehut, Mercurial)

Experience working with CI/CD systems such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, or Argo

Familiarity with utilizing ticket management systems

Telecom industry experience is a plusCompany Description

Talent Groups-Progilisys Solutions specializes in assessing systems, architectures and application management requirements for highly diversified computing environments, both designing and deploying solutions to meet our customer’s strategic business requirements. As an independent solution provider, we address the relationships between technology, people and process, and in turn recommend the optimum combination of each to help meet our customer’s business and technology objectives.

Full-time

Hybrid remote