Network Engineer (Contract)

Business Needs Inc

Job Location:

Palo Alto, CA - USA

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 4 hours ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Title : Network Engineer Corporate & Data Center (Contract)

Location : Palo Alto CA

Required Qualifications

10years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.

Proficiency with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama; experience with security policy management zone-based segmentation and GlobalProtect VPN.

Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals: BGP OSPF STP/RSTP VLANs LACP and L2/L3 design.

Experience designing and supporting enterprise wireless networks (Cisco Meraki Aruba or equivalent); familiarity with 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 and RF optimization.

Working knowledge of datacenter networking concepts: spine-leaf VxLAN/EVPN and high-availability failover.

Strong troubleshooting methodology-comfortable working through complex multi-layer problems in production environments.

Effective written and verbal communication; able to produce clear runbooks and incident postmortems.

Relevant certifications: PCNSE (Palo Alto Networks) CCNP Enterprise CWNA/CWSP or equivalent.

Experience with network automation using Python Ansible or Terraform.

Familiarity with public cloud networking (AWS Azure or GCP) as it intersects with on- premises connectivity (Direct Connect ExpressRoute VPN).

Exposure to load balancers (F5 AVI/NSX ALB NGINX) and application delivery in datacenter environments.

Experience with 802.1X / NAC platforms (Cisco ISE Aruba ClearPass or equivalent).

Comfort using AI tools (e.g. Claude Copilot) for network operations documentation and automation tasks is a plus and actively encouraged.

Title : Network Engineer Corporate & Data Center (Contract) Location : Palo Alto CA Required Qualifications 10years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience. Proficiency with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama; experience with security policy management zone-based segm...