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Our two primary products - BlinkRx and Quick Save - remove traditional roadblocks within the current prescription supply chain, resulting in better access to critical medications and improved health outcomes for patients. \nBlinkRx is the world’s first pharma-to-patient cloud that offers a digital concierge service for patients who are prescribed branded medications. Patients benefit from transparent low prices, free home delivery, and world-class support on this first-of-its-kind centralized platform. With BlinkRx, never again will a patient show up at the pharmacy only to discover that they can’t afford their medication, their doctor needs to fill out a form for them, or the pharmacy doesn’t have the medication in stock. \nWe are a highly collaborative team of builders and operators who invent new ways of working in an industry that historically has resisted innovation. Join us!\nAbout the Role\nBlink 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.\nWhat You’ll Do\nDefine 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\nServe 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\nDrive network-as-code and automation (IaC, CI/CD, config management) to make the network repeatable, auditable, and self-service where possible\nEstablish network design standards and guardrails for security, compliance, redundancy, and high availability, and ensure they are adopted across teams\nLead the evaluation, selection, and adoption of new products and solutions, building business cases and presenting recommendations to IT and engineering leadership\nLead architecture for complex initiatives such as new site build-outs, cloud migrations, network segmentation, zero trust, and M&A integration\nServe as the final technical escalation point for critical incidents; lead root cause analysis and drive systemic fixes\nPartner with security to define hardening and patching standards, and to investigate and remediate security incidents with network impact\nDesign observability and monitoring strategy for network health, performance, and capacity planning\nMentor and develop network, systems, and service desk staff; build runbooks and training that scale expertise across the team\nOwn technical documentation and architecture decision records for critical systems\nCommunicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders, including executive-level updates on risk, incidents, and major changes\nParticipate in on-call rotation as a senior escalation resource\nWhat You’ll Need\n10+ years of experience designing and operating enterprise network environments, with a strong track record in hybrid on-prem and cloud\nProven experience architecting and leading large-scale network initiatives in AWS and Kubernetes-based microservices environments\nExpert-level knowledge of IPSec/VPN, DNS, SNMP, OSPF, BGP, AWS VPC, Security Groups, peering, Transit Gateway, and advanced routing\nDeep understanding of how cloud, container, and virtualization technologies affect network performance, security, and design\nHands-on experience with infrastructure-as-code and network automation (e.g., Terraform, Python, Ansible)\nDemonstrated ability to influence without authority, set standards, and drive cross-functional alignment\nExperience designing for compliance-sensitive environments (e.g., HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI)\nStrong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to translate technical tradeoffs for leadership\nNice to Have\nExperience with Palo Alto Networks (Panorama, GlobalProtect) and Cisco Meraki at scale\nExperience with service mesh, CNI, or Kubernetes networking internals\nRelevant certifications (e.g., AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, PCNSE, CCNP/CCIE)\nLogistics\nComfortable working in the Eastern Time Zone\nAbility to travel up to 10% to office sites\nAbility to work up to 4 days a week in our NYC, St. Louis, or Pittsburgh office\nWhy Join Us:\n It is rare to have a company that both deeply impacts its customers and is able to provide its services across a massive population. At Blink, we have a huge impact on people when they are most vulnerable: at the intersection of their healthcare and finances. We are also the fastest growing healthcare company in the country and are driving that impact across millions of new patients every year. Our business model not only helps people, but drives economics that allow us to build a generational company. We are a relentlessly learning, constantly curious, and aggressively collaborative cross-functional team dedicated to inventing new ways to improve the lives of our customers.\nWe are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds. 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