Network Engineer, Corporate & Data Center (Contract) – Locals only to California

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Syncreon Consulting
Published
May 8, 2026
Location
Palo Alto, CA
Job Type

Network Engineer, Corporate & Data Center (Contract) – Locals only to California: our view in 3 lines...

  • The Role: An experienced enterprise network engineer role responsible for corporate LAN, wireless, datacenter networking and firewall/security operations for a staffing firm's client environments.
  • The Person: Design, operate, and maintain corporate LAN and datacenter networks, manage wireless infrastructure and 802.1X access control, administer Palo Alto firewalls and VPNs, monitor network health, and develop automation and configuration workflows.
  • Requirements: 10 years of enterprise network engineering experience with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama, GlobalProtect VPN, BGP, OSPF, STP/RSTP, VLANs, LACP, spine-leaf and VxLAN/EVPN, Cisco Meraki or Aruba, 802.11ax, SNMP, NetFlow, Python, Ansible, and Terraform.

Job Description

Company Description

We provide Recruitment and Staffing services to many industries and domain through our innovative and customized solutions and passionate commitment to research. Ability to understand the hiring strategies, availability of talent and compensation benchmarking makes us proud hiring partner for various industries. We work as trusted business partners and always strive to deliver the most value and highest return on investment for our clients. We are highly trained business professionals with strong understanding of clients need. We work closely with the leading staffing trade associations, training, and research organizations to ensure we are knowledgeable of the latest industry trends and technologies.

Job Description

Required Qualifications
• 10years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.
• Proficiency with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama; experience with security policy management, zone-based segmentation, and GlobalProtect VPN.
• Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals: BGP, OSPF, STP/RSTP, VLANs, LACP, and L2/L3 design.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise wireless networks (Cisco Meraki, Aruba, or equivalent); familiarity with 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 and RF optimization.
• Working knowledge of datacenter networking concepts: spine-leaf, VxLAN/EVPN, and high-availability failover.
• Strong troubleshooting methodology—comfortable working through complex multi-layer problems in production environments.
• Effective written and verbal communication; able to produce clear runbooks and incident postmortems.

Corporate & Campus Networking
• Design and maintain the corporate LAN, including access/distribution/core switching, VLANs, STP, and QoS for our Palo Alto HQ and remote offices.

• Manage and optimize the wireless LAN infrastructure (controller-based and cloud- managed), including site surveys, RF planning, SSID design, and client troubleshooting.
• Administer 802.1X network access control, certificate-based authentication, and guest network segmentation.

Datacenter Networking
• Operate and evolve the datacenter network, including spine-leaf architecture, BGP, VxLAN/EVPN overlays, and high-availability designs.
• Ensure network stability and performance across on-premises datacenter infrastructure, proactively monitoring capacity and latency baselines.
• Partner with Server, Storage, and Platform Engineering teams on rack-and-stack connectivity, new service deployments, and capacity expansions.

Security & Firewall (Palo Alto Networks)
• Manage Palo Alto Networks NGFW platforms (PA-Series, Panorama, SCM), including security policy, App-ID, URL filtering, Threat Prevention, and WildFire integration.
• Administer GlobalProtect VPN and Prisma Access for remote access and enforce zero-trust network segmentation between zones.
• Conduct firewall rule reviews, clean up unused policies, and support periodic security audits.

Reliability & Automation
• Monitor network health using observability tooling (SNMP, streaming telemetry, NetFlow/sFlow) and drive resolution of incidents and root-cause analyses.
• Develop and maintain automation scripts and configuration management workflows (Python, Ansible, Terraform) to reduce toil and improve consistency.

Regards,

Mohammed ilyas,

PH - 229-264-4024 or Text - 229-469-1455 or you can share the updated resume at Mohammed@vtekis. com

Additional Information

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Key Skills
? Key Skills in dark blue have been inferred based on similar industry roles
Palo Alto NGFW Panorama BGP OSPF Vxlan/evpn 802.1X Cisco Meraki SOLID VPN Firewall Python Terraform Ansible Prisma Platform Engineering

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