Network Engineer

Job Description

City: Los Angeles, CA

Onsite/ Hybrid/ Remote: Onsite, 3 days a week

Duration: 24 months

Rate Range: $82/hr on W2 depending on experience (no C2C or 1099 or sub-contract)

Work Authorization: GC, USC, All valid EADs except H1b

Top Note

* This is a strict Schedule: 8-5pm PST – Wednesday-Sunday. Looking for someone hybrid – Wed-Fri in office and Sat and Sunday remote. 8AM to 5PM PST
* There’s an on-call shift – (6PM-6AM) as needed potentially.

Description

Collaborate with other engineering teams to automate various processes, aid in capacity planning and implementations

* Work with team members to deploy, and operate infrastructure globally to support the movie production and distribution process
* Engineer and deploy scalable and flexible high-performance and high-availability network infrastructure
* Generate quality documentation on network issues, updates, root cause analysis, troubleshooting techniques and network analysis including diagrams/templates. Exercise consistent rigor in maintaining documentation
* Ensure reliable operation of systems and infrastructure software by designing and implementing network, instrumentation and management tools in order to predict, quickly diagnose and resolve abnormal network behavior
* Liaison between critical production engineering groups
* Serve as a Tier 2 support for Systems, Media, Storage and Cloud Operations Engineers
* Interface with other entities and their networks to support cross-segment workflows, file transport and other sharing of media assets, devices and infrastructure
* Minimum of 3 years of experience in engineering and operations for a Studio, ISP or a Major Enterprise network in a 7x24x365 environment. Normal hours and business days apply, but must be available to work after hours, weekends and some holidays as well as providing L3 on-call support on a rotation basis will be required.
* Shift work weekdays and weekends. Onsite and Remote- on-call support on a rotation basis will be required.

Experience working in a multi-vendor network environment (Juniper, Arista, Cisco, Brocade, Palo Alto, F5, Infinera, Ciena)

* Consistent track record of implementing large-scale and mission-critical networks
* Experience running and supporting high availability infrastructure
* Working experience with Public Cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure and/or GCP)
* Experience implementing/maintaining monitoring and alerting for production systems
* Network theory and services (TCP/IP, UDP/IP, 7 layers of OSI, DNS, DHCP)
* Mid-level expertise with VXLAN, STP, ISIS, BGP, EVPN and MPLS
* Networked Storage technologies (NAS, SAN, Clustered, Tape)
* I/O technologies (Fiber Channel, InfiniBand, SCSI, SATA, SAS)
* Network hardware (firewalls, routers, switches, load balancers, transport gear)
* Local and Networked File Systems (NFS, SMB, DFS, NTFS)
* Video streaming theory, standards and concepts
* Exceptional advanced troubleshooting skills
* Understanding of Network Security principals and best practices

Requirements

* A Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering or Electrical Engineering
* Certifications (JNCIA-Junos, JNCIA-MistAI, JNCIA-SEC, ACE-A, PCCSA, PCNSA, PCNSE, CCNA, CCNP, BIG-IP, DDI Professional)
* Experience working on virtualized network environments (overlays)
* Experience with network scripting/automation
* Experience with configuration management systems such as Ansible or Terraform
* Strong hands-on support of large WAN, LAN and MAN environments
* 3rd party interfacing and network-to-network connectivity experience
* Experience implementing scalable, highly available and secure VPN environments
* Experience developing automated methods to mitigate and remediate network events and minimize operational complexity
* Experience deploying and supporting Media Production environments with a Studio or Postproduction House

Personal Characteristics

* Customer service oriented individual
* Self-driven with an analytical mind with a bias for action
* Track record of practical problem solving under pressure
* Excellent communication, and documentation skills
* Excellent communication skills to collaborate with teams globally
* Able to comfortably multitask (i.e., perform multiple tasks concurrently)
* Ability to manage competing priorities, and work well under pressure
* A team player with good interpersonal and relationship building skills
* Able to interact and apply soft skills with face to face production customers
* Strong analytical problem-solving skills
* Able to make important decisions given incomplete and conflicting knowledge