Network DevOps Engineer

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Title:

Network Dev Ops Engineer Duration: 3 Months

Location:

Palo Alto, CA Only W2 candidates are eligible for this position. Third-party or C2C candidates will not be considered.

Description:

Job Description Global Infrastructure and Platform Services (GIPS) Palo Alto (Onsite) Mid-Level About the Role Our client is looking for a Network Engineer to design, deploy, and operate the corporate and datacenter network infrastructure that underpins our global workforce and production environments. You will own the full lifecycle of campus and datacenter networks from access switching and wireless LAN to spine-leaf fabrics and next-generation firewall policy while driving the reliability, security, and scalability of client's on-premises infrastructure.

This role sits within Global Infrastructure and Platform Services (GIPS) at our Palo Alto headquarters. You will work closely with Security, IT, and Cloud Engineering teams and are encouraged to leverage AI tools to accelerate troubleshooting, documentation, and automation.

Key Responsibilities Corporate & Campus Networking Design and maintain the corporate LAN, including access/distribution/core switching, VLANs, STP, and QoS for the 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 by 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-, URL filtering, Threat Prevention, and Wild Fire integration.

Administer Global Protect 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, Net Flow/sFlow) and drive resolution of incidents and root-cause analyses. Develop and maintain automation scripts and configuration management workflows (Python, Ansible, Terraform) to reduce operational toil and improve consistency.

Use AI-assisted tools to accelerate log analysis, runbook generation, and network documentation.

Required Qualifications 46 years of hands-on enterprise network engineering experience. Proficiency with Palo Alto Networks NGFWs and Panorama, including security policy management, zone-based segmentation, and Global Protect VPN. Solid understanding of routing and switching fundamentals: BGP, OSPF,…