Network Engineer, Corporate & Data Center (Contract) - Locals only to California at SyncreonConsulting

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