Network Engineer, Corporate & Datacenter

Role: Network Engineer Corporate & Datacenter

Location- Palo Alto CA (Onsite)

Contract

About the Role

Client is looking for a Network Engineer to design deploy and operate the corporate and

datacenter network infrastructure that underpins our global workforce and production environments.

You will own the full lifecycle of campus and datacenter networks-from access switching and

wireless LAN to spine-leaf fabrics and next-generation firewall policy-while driving the reliability

security and scalability of Clients on-premises infrastructure.

This role sits within Global Infrastructure and Platform Services (GIPS) at our Palo Alto CA

headquarters. You will work closely with Security IT and Cloud Engineering teams and are

encouraged to leverage AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting documentation and automation.

Key Responsibilities

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.

Job Description :-

Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate log analysis runbook generation and network

documentation.

Required Qualifications

4 6 years 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.

Preferred Qualifications

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.