Network Engineer, Corporate & Data Center (Contract) Locals only to California

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 methodologycomfortable working through complex multi-layer problems in production environments.
Effective written and verbal communication; able to produce clear runbooks and incident postmortems.

Corporate & Campus Networking
Design and maintain the corporate LAN including access/distribution/core switching VLANs STP and QoS for our Palo Alto HQ and remote offices.

Manage and optimize the wireless LAN infrastructure (controller-based and cloud- managed) including site surveys RF planning SSID design and client troubleshooting.
Administer 802.1X network access control certificate-based authentication and guest network segmentation.

Datacenter Networking
Operate and evolve the datacenter network including spine-leaf architecture BGP VxLAN/EVPN overlays and high-availability designs.
Ensure network stability and performance across on-premises datacenter infrastructure proactively monitoring capacity and latency baselines.
Partner with Server Storage and Platform Engineering teams on rack-and-stack connectivity new service deployments and capacity expansions.

Security & Firewall (Palo Alto Networks)
Manage Palo Alto Networks NGFW platforms (PA-Series Panorama SCM) including security policy App-ID URL filtering Threat Prevention and WildFire integration.
Administer GlobalProtect VPN and Prisma Access for remote access and enforce zero-trust network segmentation between zones.
Conduct firewall rule reviews clean up unused policies and support periodic security audits.

Reliability & Automation
Monitor network health using observability tooling (SNMP streaming telemetry NetFlow/sFlow) and drive resolution of incidents and root-cause analyses.
Develop and maintain automation scripts and configuration management workflows (Python Ansible Terraform) to reduce toil and improve consistency.

Regards

Mohammed ilyas

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Additional Information :

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Contract