Los Angeles - Network Engineer
About The Position
The Network Engineer designs, maintains, and continuously improves the firm’s global network infrastructure to provide secure, highly available, and scalable connectivity across offices, data centers, cloud platforms, and remote-access environments. The role supports enterprise data centers, Azure cloud compute, Cisco and Palo Alto firewalls, switching, routing, VoIP, Microsoft Teams, SSL tunnels and VPN, wireless and wired connectivity, and Aruba SD-WAN. Success in the role requires operational excellence, disciplined change management, strong troubleshooting skills, and a forward-looking approach to automation, resiliency, security, mobility, and global growth. The position is hybrid: the employee must live within commuting distance of the local office and work there three to four days per week. The role may require work outside standard business hours and travel to firm locations.
Requirements
- High school diploma or GED with CompTIA Network+ certification, or a bachelor’s degree in a computer science discipline.
- At least 3 years of information technology network experience configuring LAN, WAN, and Internet protocol technologies.
- Ability to work outside standard business hours and travel to various firm business locations as required.
- Must live within commuting distance of the local office and work there three to four days per week.
- Ability to lift 50 pounds.
- Solid understanding of the OSI and TCP/IP models.
- Ability to troubleshoot network-system installation, configuration, performance, and maintenance issues.
- Experience with network automation concepts.
- Strong knowledge and experience configuring and maintaining Cisco routers, switches, VoIP, QoS, wireless standards, DHCP, IPsec and VPN tunnels, data cabling, SD-WAN, network management tools, and high-availability, disaster-ready environments.
- Working knowledge of networking concepts, LAN/WAN/security design considerations, and interoperability with server and virtualization technologies.
- Understanding of micro-segmentation.
- Experience with Palo Alto firewalls and VPN solutions.
- Understanding of Zero Trust architectures and solutions.
- Experience coding in Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.
Nice To Haves
- CCNA certification.
- Azure Administrator certification.
Responsibilities
- Install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network-related hardware, software, and connectivity services across the firm’s global environment.
- Perform network maintenance and system upgrades, patches, hot fixes, firmware updates, and security configurations.
- Monitor network performance, availability, capacity, and reliability, and proactively address issues that may affect service continuity.
- Improve the efficiency, automation, resiliency, and security of network services across on-premises infrastructure and Azure environments.
- Follow configuration, change management, and documentation standards to ensure changes are approved, communicated, successful, and supportable.
- Partner with the security team to select, implement, and maintain network security tools, policies, and procedures.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits providing coverage and support for full-time employees and their families.
- Comprehensive healthcare benefits package.
- Yearly retirement contribution.
- May include an annual discretionary merit bonus.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
