| Location | Santa Monica, CA |
URGENT HIRING NETWORK ENGINEER
Job Code: GTUS110534
Location: Santa Monica, CA
Work Model: Onsite 5 Days/Week
Employment Type: W2 Only
Work Authorization: USC / H4 EAD Only
Experience: 13+ Years
Role Overview
Seeking a hands-on Network Engineer to support the design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of a global corporate network. The role combines day-to-day network support with delivery of office build-outs, expansions, and infrastructure projects across a multi-site enterprise environment.
Key Responsibilities
Operate and troubleshoot enterprise wired and wireless networks, including incidents, outages, performance, and connectivity issues.
Implement network changes using established change management standards and contribute to root cause and problem management.
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 connectivity for access control, surveillance, intrusion detection, and other physical security systems.
Maintain network diagrams, documentation, procedures, inventory, logistics, and hardware lifecycle records.
Communicate clearly with technical and non-technical stakeholders while delivering strong customer service.
Required Experience
5+ 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; CloudVision Portal experience is preferred.
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.
Comfort managing network environments through both CLI and GUI tools.
Preferred Experience
Opengear, network monitoring and management platforms, and Network Access Control solutions.
Enterprise infrastructure and data center networking environments.
Experience supporting global organizations, large campuses, healthcare, higher education, financial services, or technology companies.
Relevant certifications such as Arista ACE, Fortinet NSE/FCSS, CCNA, CCNP, or equivalent.
Professional Skills
Strong communication, customer service, troubleshooting, and analytical 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.
Work Model
Location: Santa Monica.
Schedule: Primarily onsite, five days per week, during standard business hours.
Occasional collaboration across US Pacific time zones and limited travel for office or infrastructure projects