Job Description
🌐 Network Engineer (Cisco, Palo Alto, BGP, Firewalls & Enterprise Infrastructure)
Full-Time | Remote | U.S. Business Hours
🚀 About the Role
We’re hiring a technically strong and proactive Network Engineer to design, configure, secure, and maintain enterprise-grade network infrastructure across production environments.
This role is focused on:
✅ Routing & switching
✅ Firewalls & VPNs
✅ Network security
✅ Monitoring & troubleshooting
✅ Cloud networking
✅ Performance optimization
You’ll work directly with enterprise networking environments involving:
- Cisco
- Juniper
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
- Hybrid cloud infrastructure
- Multi-site enterprise networks
This is an ideal opportunity for someone who thrives in fast-moving technical environments and enjoys solving complex networking and infrastructure challenges.
🔥 What You’ll Own
Enterprise Network Configuration & Maintenance
Configure and manage:
- routers
- switches
- firewalls
- VPNs
Work across technologies including:
- Cisco
- Juniper
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
Implement and maintain:
- VLANs
- QoS
- VPN tunnels
- ACLs
- network segmentation
Configure routing protocols including:
- BGP
- OSPF
- EIGRP
Perform:
- firmware upgrades
- patch management
- hardware maintenance
Monitoring & Troubleshooting
Monitor network health using:
- SolarWinds
- Nagios
- PRTG
- Zabbix
Diagnose:
- latency
- packet loss
- routing instability
- failover issues
Use tools such as:
- Wireshark
- TCPdump
Resolve escalated network incidents and provide:
- root cause analysis
- remediation documentation
Network Security & Compliance
Enforce:
- firewall policies
- ACLs
- segmentation strategies
- intrusion prevention systems
Support security and compliance initiatives involving:
- PCI-DSS
- HIPAA
- SOX
- GDPR
Implement:
- Zero Trust networking principles
- secure remote access
- VPN security best practices
Support tools such as:
- Snort
- Suricata
Performance Optimization & Reliability
Conduct:
- bandwidth analysis
- capacity planning
- failover testing
- load balancing optimization
Maintain:
- high availability
- network redundancy
- ≥99.9% uptime
Proactively identify risks before outages occur
Documentation & Governance
Maintain:
- network diagrams
- topology maps
- runbooks
- configuration documentation
Use:
- Visio
- Lucidchart
- ITIL change management workflows
Ensure all changes are documented accurately
Cloud Networking & Infrastructure Projects
Collaborate with:
- DevOps teams
- Cloud engineers
- Infrastructure teams
Support:
- AWS VPCs
- Azure VNets
- GCP networking
- hybrid cloud environments
Participate in:
- office expansions
- migrations
- data center deployments
- infrastructure upgrades
💻 Required Experience & Skills
3+ years of experience in:
- Network Engineering
- Infrastructure Engineering
- Enterprise Networking
Strong hands-on experience with:
- Cisco
- Palo Alto
- Fortinet
- Juniper
Deep understanding of:
- TCP/IP
- VLANs
- QoS
- VPNs
- ACLs
- BGP
- OSPF
Experience with:
- monitoring tools
- troubleshooting tools
- packet analysis
Strong documentation and communication skills
⭐ Ideal Experience
CCNP / CCIE certifications
Palo Alto or Fortinet certifications
Experience with:
- AWS VPC
- Azure networking
- hybrid cloud networking
Familiarity with:
- Python
- Ansible
- Terraform
- network automation
Experience supporting:
- multi-site enterprise networks
- high-availability environments
🧠 What Makes You a Great Fit
- Strong troubleshooting instincts under pressure
- Highly detail-oriented and process-driven
- Proactive mindset focused on preventing outages
- Excellent communicator who can explain technical concepts clearly
- Comfortable balancing operations, troubleshooting, and project work
- Passionate about network reliability, security, and optimization
📅 What a Typical Day Looks Like
- Monitor dashboards and respond to network alerts
- Troubleshoot routing, VPN, or firewall issues
- Configure switches, firewalls, and routing policies
- Support migrations and cloud networking integrations
- Update network diagrams and change documentation
- Optimize bandwidth and failover performance
- Collaborate with DevOps and infrastructure teams on projects
In short:
You ensure enterprise networks remain secure, reliable, optimized, and highly available across production environments.
📊 Key Success Metrics (KPIs)
- Network uptime ≥ 99.9%
- MTTR within SLA targets
- Zero missed critical patches or compliance gaps
- Accurate and updated documentation
- Reduced recurring outages and escalations
- Strong end-user and stakeholder satisfaction
🌍 Why This Role Stands Out
Exposure to enterprise-grade networking infrastructure
Work with modern:
- firewalls
- routing systems
- cloud networking
- hybrid infrastructure
Strong ownership and technical depth
Opportunity to work across networking, security, and cloud environments
Career growth into:
- Senior Network Engineer
- Infrastructure Architect
- Cloud Networking
- Security Engineering
🧪 Interview Process
Initial Phone Screen
Video Interview with Pavago Recruiter
Technical Task:
- VLAN configuration
- network troubleshooting scenario
Client Interview with Engineering Team
Offer & Background Verification
👉 Apply Now
If you:
- Enjoy solving complex networking issues
- Thrive in enterprise infrastructure environments
- Care deeply about uptime, reliability, and security
- Want ownership over production network systems
This role is a strong fit for you.
