Network Administrator

Position: Network Administrator 

Location: Tustin, CA

Pay: $90k to $110k a year

Position Summary 

The Network Administrator position within the NAF’s Technology Services team is a key role responsible for daily administration, operation and maintenance of NAF’s wide area networks, local area networks and remote access support to provide connectivity to end users for all applications in collaboration with the Technology Services team in US. 
 
The ideal candidate will be a highly motivated, self-starter and a change agent with experience and desire to drive the organization to modern network technologies enabling zero trust network access.

This position will work closely with business groups, vendors, carriers, and other teams to analyze business and technical requirements to identify options, propose recommendations, and associated value propositions.   This position will research, evaluate, and recommend new tools and technologies for data networks and assess emerging technologies and make recommendations to management. 

Ideal candidates must possess attention to detail capabilities and adjust quickly to a constantly changing and fast paced environment. Must have strong communication and teamwork skills. Perform duties as assigned on RACI model(s). Must be comfortable working independently but also as part of a team.  

Responsibilities 

• Triage and resolve basic networking issues, optimizing local network performance, and implementing security measures to safeguard our systems. 

• Escalation Point for Field Technicians.   Serve as the primary escalation contact for field technicians who encounter complex network issues, providing advanced troubleshooting support and solutions in real-time. 

• Help design and maintain local campus networks configured with high availability. 

• Troubleshoot and administrate across the enterprise network. 

• Act as a trusted advisor with businesses, internal teams, and remote users to ensure processes and tools are in place. 

• Create documentation around project requirements, diagrams, run books, test plans, etc. to ensure successful lifecycle management. 

• Plan and coordinate the implementation and lifecycle administration of network infrastructure.  

• Troubleshoot complex incidents and problems, including escalation to appropriate 3rd party vendor support, to drive root cause analysis. 

• Work with the Corporate Infrastructure and HelpDesk teams to ensure the network connectivity meets changing demands. 

• Utilize monitoring tools to ensure optimum availability, capacity, and performance of network infrastructure. 

• Participate in technical research to enable continuing innovation within the network infrastructure. 

• Participate in on-call duties and after-hours duties. 

• Travel to remote offices up to 10% of the time. 

• Conduct after-hours maintenance. 

• Other duties may be assigned to ensure stability of overall infrastructure. 

Qualifications:

• Must possess intermediate level proficiency in routing, switching and firewalls with five or more years’ experience. 
• Proficiency in network protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, and routing protocols (e.g., OSPF, BGP). 

• Must possess proficiency in network troubleshooting with four or more years’ experience. 

• Must possess proficiency in wireless networks with four or more years’ experience. 

• Must possess proficiency in complimentary security controls and the network meets all industry standards and complies with regulatory requirements. 

• Experience with leading networking vendor platforms including Cisco, Meraki and Palo Alto  

• Must possess network Security experience with various security ecosystem platforms.  

• Knowledge of application flows, packet capture, and analysis.  

• Experience with network monitoring tools 

• Understanding of network and security architecture, site reliability engineering etc. 

• Must possess strong troubleshooting skills.  

• Must possess knowledge of cloud technologies and cloud infrastructure. 

Education and Certification 

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field.  

• CCNA, CompTIA+ in addition to Network Vendor Certifications  

Desired Education/Experience:

• Must have a minimum of 5 years’ Network Administration experience with enterprise-level or service-provider network support.
• Working knowledge of Veeam software.
• Network certification (CCNA, JNCIA) preferred but not required.
• A bachelors’ degree in computer science or a related field.

Work Authorization: Must be able to verify identity and employment eligibility to work in the U.S.

Other Duties: This job profile is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of job duties and responsibilities, as one may perform additional related duties as assigned in order to meet the needs of the organization.

Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Must be able to lift up to ten pounds. Primary functions require sufficient physical ability and mobility to work in an office setting; to stand or sit for prolonged periods of time; to occasionally stoop, bend, kneel, crouch, reach, and twist; to lift, carry, push, and/or pull light to moderate amounts of weight; to operate office equipment requiring repetitive hand movement and fine coordination including use of a keyboard; and to verbally communicate to exchange information. VISION: See in the normal visual range with or without correction. HEARING: Hear in the normal audio range with or without correction.

[EOE/M/F/D/V. Drug-free workplace.]

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