Network Engineer

Job : Network Engineer

Location : Santa Monica, CA | Onsite 5 Days per Week

Duration : Long Term

Overview

·        Client is seeking a highly motivated Network Engineer to support the design, deployment, operation, and maintenance of its global corporate network infrastructure. This role will be based in Santa Monica and will serve as a critical extension of Snap's Infrastructure Engineering team, supporting offices across a global footprint of more than 55 locations in 16 countries.

·        The ideal candidate combines strong technical networking expertise with excellent customer service and communication skills. This individual will work closely with infrastructure engineers, facilities teams, security teams, project managers, and office stakeholders to deliver reliable networking services and support strategic office build-outs, renovations, and technology initiatives.

·        This is a hands-on role requiring both operational support and project delivery experience in corporate campus environments.

Key Responsibilities

·        Network Operations & Support

·        Provide day-to-day support for Snap's enterprise and campus network infrastructure.

·        Troubleshoot and resolve network incidents, outages, performance issues, and connectivity problems.

·        Support wired and wireless networking environments across corporate office locations.

·        Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and problem management activities.

·        Execute network changes in accordance with established change management processes and operational standards.

Infrastructure Projects

·        Support office expansions, relocations, retrofits, and new site builds.

·        Assist with the deployment and commissioning of MDF and IDF environments.

·        Coordinate installation and activation of networking hardware and infrastructure.

·        Work with low-voltage contractors, facilities teams, and vendors to deliver network infrastructure projects.

·        Contribute to the planning and implementation of global infrastructure initiatives.

Security & Physical Infrastructure

·        Support networking requirements associated with:

·        Access control systems

·        Surveillance and camera platforms

·        Intrusion detection systems

·        Physical security technologies

·        Work with cross-functional teams to ensure secure and reliable connectivity for enterprise systems.

Required Technical Experience

·        Core Networking

·        Strong understanding of enterprise networking fundamentals including:

·        TCP/IP

·        VLANs

·        Routing and Switching

·        DHCP

·        DNS

·        Network troubleshooting methodologies

·        Enterprise wireless networking

Arista

·        Experience supporting and administering Arista switching environments.

·        Experience with campus network deployments and operations.

·        Knowledge of:

·        Arista EOS

·        Arista Cloud Vision Portal (CVP) preferred

·        Comfortable managing environments via both GUI and CLI.

·        Fortinet

·        Experience supporting FortiGate firewall platforms.

Understanding of:

·        Firewall policy management NAT

·        VPN technologies

·        Network segmentation

·        Security best practices

Additional Technologies (Preferred)

·        Opengear

·        Network monitoring and management platforms

·        Network Access Control (NAC) solutions

·        Enterprise infrastructure and data center environments