Network Engineer
Job ID: 113914
Location: San Diego, California [On-Site]
Category: Infrastructure
Employment Type: Contract
Date Added: 11/02/2026
Role Summary
The Network Engineer will support the design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of a global corporate network in a multi-site enterprise environment. This hands-on role combines daily network operations and troubleshooting with office build-outs, expansions, relocations, and infrastructure projects. The position works closely with facilities teams, contractors, vendors, security teams, project managers, and technical stakeholders to deliver secure and reliable connectivity. The role is based in Santa Monica and requires an onsite schedule five days per week.
Responsibilities
- Operate and troubleshoot enterprise wired and wireless networks, including incidents, outages, performance issues, and connectivity problems.
- Implement network changes in accordance with established change management standards.
- Contribute to root cause analysis and problem management activities.
- Support office expansions, relocations, retrofits, and new site builds, including MDF/IDF deployment and commissioning.
- Coordinate networking hardware installation and activation with facilities teams, low-voltage contractors, vendors, security teams, and project managers.
- Provide secure, reliable network connectivity for access control, surveillance, intrusion detection, and other physical security systems.
- Maintain network diagrams, technical documentation, procedures, inventory, logistics, and hardware lifecycle records.
- Use CLI and GUI tools to manage and monitor network environments.
- Communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders while providing strong customer service.
- Manage operational and infrastructure project priorities across a multi-site enterprise environment.
Qualifications
- 5 or more years of enterprise network engineering experience in campus, corporate, or distributed multi-site environments.
- Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, VLANs, routing and switching, DHCP, DNS, enterprise wireless, and network troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience supporting Arista switching environments and Arista EOS.
- Experience with FortiGate firewalls, including policy management, NAT, VPNs, segmentation, and security best practices.
- Experience supporting office construction, network deployments, infrastructure projects, and formal change management.
- Strong communication, customer service, troubleshooting, analytical, and organizational skills.
- Ability to work independently, manage competing operational and project priorities, and adapt in a fast-paced environment.
- Professional presence and a collaborative approach when working with employees, executives, vendors, and cross-functional teams.
- Availability to work onsite five days per week during standard business hours, with occasional collaboration across US Pacific time zones and limited travel for office or infrastructure projects.
- Relevant certifications such as Arista ACE, Fortinet NSE/FCSS, CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent are preferred. Experience with CloudVision Portal, Opengear, network monitoring and management platforms, Network Access Control solutions, enterprise infrastructure, or data center networking is also preferred.
Publishing Pay Range: $58.00 – $61.00 Hourly
This position is based in office and requires employee to work on-site.
