San Francisco - Network Engineer

Winston Taylor•San Francisco, CA

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

The Network Engineer designs, maintains, and continuously improves Winston Taylor’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-class 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 this position requires operational excellence, disciplined change management, strong troubleshooting skills, and a forward-looking approach to network automation, resiliency, security, mobility, and global growth. The engineer must live within commuting distance of the local office, work onsite three to four days per week, be able to travel to firm locations as required, and be available to work outside standard business hours.

Requirements

High school diploma or GED with a CompTIA Network+ certification, or a bachelor’s degree in a computer science discipline.
At least 3 years of information technology network experience, including configuration of 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 come into the office 3–4 days per week.
Ability to lift 50 pounds.
Solid understanding of the OSI and TCP/IP models.
Ability to troubleshoot network installation, configuration, performance, and maintenance issues.
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 and LAN/WAN/security design considerations, including 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.

Nice To Haves

CCNA certification.
Azure Administrator certification.
Experience with network automation concepts.
Experience coding in Ansible, PowerShell, Python, or similar languages.

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 established 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.