Who are we?
Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines. Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.
About the Role:
We're seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate secure, scalable hybrid cloud network infrastructure on AWS. You'll work across platform, security, and infrastructure teams to deliver highly available cloud connectivity solutions, focusing on automation, reliability, and operational excellence.
AWS Advanced Networking – Specialty Certification or equivalent hands-on expertise with VPCs, subnets, Transit Gateways, Route 53, Direct Connect, and VPNs
Hands-on firewall operations experience (AWS Network Firewall, NACLs, Security Groups, WAF in production environments)
Platform Architecture (40%)
Design and implement secure, scalable AWS network architectures (VPCs, subnets, routing, multi-tenant isolation)
Design and implement firewall strategies: Network ACLs, Security Groups, AWS Network Firewall, and WAF rules aligned with security best practices
Infrastructure Automation (40%)
Develop and maintain Terraform modules for AWS infrastructure with security guardrails embedded (e.g., encryption at rest/transit, least-privilege IAM policies, NACLs, Security Groups)
Operations & Observability (20%)
Audit, maintain, and troubleshoot firewall rules and security controls (NACLs, Security Groups, Network Firewall, WAF) including rule optimization, change management, incident response, and compliance reviews
AWS Networking & Firewall Operations: VPC, peering, subnets, Transit Gateways, Route 53, Direct Connect, VPNs, NACLs, Security Groups, AWS Network Firewall, WAF, AWS PrivateLink, IPAM
Firewall Rule Management: Writing, debugging, and maintaining network ACLs and Security Groups at scale; understanding of stateful vs. stateless filtering AWS Services: EC2, RDS, ECS/EKS, Lambda, IAM, CloudFormation, S3
About our culture
Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.
