IT Network Administrator II (Los Angeles)

Responsibilities:

• Configure, administer, secure, monitor, and troubleshoot the Bank's local-area and wide-area network infrastructure, including Fortinet firewalls, Arista switches, routers, wireless networks, virtual private networks, network circuits, and supporting power equipment.
• Perform routine and moderately complex network changes in accordance with approved designs, security standards, and change management requirements. Escalate significant design decisions, high-risk changes, and complex unresolved issues to senior network personnel or the IT Infrastructure Manager.
• Administer and use network monitoring and security technologies, including ManageEngine, Network Policy Server, intrusion detection, network access control, and NetFlow tools. Investigate alerts, performance concerns, and connectivity issues.
• Support network segmentation, firewall rules, secure remote access, wireless security, routing, access controls, and other network security controls based on approved standards.
• Test and deploy approved firmware, software, and security updates for network equipment, including documenting testing, implementation, validation, and rollback activities.
• Respond to network incidents, perform troubleshooting and root-cause analysis, document findings, implement approved corrective actions, and escalate significant security or availability events.
• Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, Internet service providers, managed network providers, voice service providers, and other vendors supporting network services.
• Create and maintain accurate network diagrams, device inventories, configuration records, procedures, support documentation, audit evidence, and recovery instructions.

Requirement and Skills:

• Associate's or Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Network Administration, or a related field preferred (relevant experience may substitute for education).
• Three (3) or more years of enterprise network administration experience.
• Hands-on experience with switches, firewalls, wireless networks, routing, VPNs, network monitoring, and troubleshooting.
• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, IPsec, BGP, secure file transfer, email transport, and related network protocols.
• Familiarity with Windows Server and Linux-based systems/appliances.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, organizational, and communication skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Fortinet, Arista, and/or Cisco networking technologies. • Associate-level networking certification (or equivalent experience).
• Experience with network access control (NAC), intrusion detection systems (IDS), network segmentation, and traffic analysis tools.
• Financial services, banking, or other regulated industry experience.

Full-time position. Base annual salary range: $85K - 100K.