The ideal candidate is equally comfortable racking switches in a colo cage, troubleshooting BGP at 2 a.m., writing Terraform for AWS VPCs, coordinating with regional IT contacts across three continents, and tightening firewall rules to satisfy auditors. Architect and operate AWS network constructs: VPCs, subnets, route tables, NAT/IGW, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect, VPC Peering, PrivateLink, Route 53, ELB/ALB/NLB, CloudFront, Global Accelerator.