Network Engineer

Location: This role is located in Boston, MA, and requires the candidate to work onsite on a hybrid schedule.

The Network Engineer works on our client’s enterprise network spanning data centers, corporate offices, studio environments, and AWS cloud. Our network is evolving: an AI-driven Juniper/Mist campus fabric, a Palo Alto Networks security edge, and cloud-native connectivity into AWS form the backbone of our next-generation architecture. You will collaborate with engineering teams across the company during design, development, and implementation while researching, evaluating, and implementing emerging technologies, AI-assisted operations, and automation tooling.

What You’ll Do:

• Design, implement, and operate our Juniper/Mist campus and branch infrastructure.
• Engineer and maintain the Palo Alto Networks security stack.
• Build and support AWS cloud networking - VPC design, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, Route 53 - and hybrid connectivity between on-premises datacenters and cloud, including WAN traffic engineering with BGP, OSPF, and SD-WAN.
• Automate network configuration, validation, and deployment using Python, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tooling (Terraform, Ansible).
• Modernize network observability - streaming telemetry, flow analysis, and cloud-native monitoring.
• Maintain a working understanding of emerging architecture trends (next-generation datacenter, SASE, zero-trust); conduct proof-of-concept exercises, provide design mentorship, and communicate across business, creative, and technology teams.

• 6+ years of enterprise network engineering experience across routing, switching, and wireless - with hands-on depth in Juniper (EX/QFX/SRX, Mist) and/or Cisco (Catalyst, Nexus) platforms, and experience with (or strong readiness for) AI-driven network operations such as Mist/Marvis.
• Strong knowledge of Internet routing protocols (BGP, OSPF), traffic engineering with BGP and SD-WAN, and load balancing solutions.
• Hands-on experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls, including policy architecture and Panorama; Checkpoint or Fortinet experience also valued.
• Working experience with AWS networking services - VPC, Transit Gateway, Direct Connect/VPN, Route 53, security groups - and cloud monitoring such as CloudWatch, plus core network services (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).
• Understanding of Linux, proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python preferred), comfort consuming APIs, and demonstrated use of AI tools (e.g., Claude, Copilot, Marvis) to accelerate engineering work.
• Analytical problem-solving skills across large-scale distributed platforms, and the ability to communicate and deliver under deadline constraints.

Nice to Have:

• Active certifications: AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, or AWS Solutions Architect.
• Prisma Access / SASE deployment experience, or Palo Alto Cloud Identity Engine (CIE) exposure.
• Infrastructure-as-code in production - Terraform or Ansible pipelines managing network state.
• Experience in a multi-studio, multi-BU entertainment or gaming enterprise environment.