Senior Network & Systems Engineer — LA-Based

PMCS Group, Inc.; Los Angeles (CA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

BuildLACCD is seeking a Programmer/Analyst III to manage and secure the organization's network and systems across PMO IT operations and project sites in the LA area. This role reports to the PMO IT Director and requires strong technical skills and collaboration across multiple campuses.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES include configuring and maintaining network devices, applying updates, ensuring system uptime, disaster recovery, and providing Tier 2/3 support.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 7 years of applicable systems and network administration experience.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited four-year college with a degree in computer science or related field. Additional four years qualifying experience in excess to the minimum stated above may be substituted for the required education.
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, positive attitude and keen attention to detail.
• Excellent collaborative and team skills and ability to present ideas in user-friendly and non-technical language.

Responsibilities

• Configures, manages and provides technical networking support for the physical and virtual environments, including hosts, operating systems and storage.
• Testing, installation, configuration and maintenance of operating systems, application software, and network device configurations
• Ensure system up time and communicate effectively with other members of the corporate team.
• Oversees the administration of systems and servers related to the network to ensure availability of services to BuildLACCD user community.
• Installs and configures client and server network software and performs software upgrades as needed.
• Proactively monitors and identifies network and system issues and takes corrective action in order to ensure efficient network and computing operation.
• Manages assigned projects to deliver services in accordance with established objectives.
• Configures, manages and provides technical support of firewalls, Wi-Fi Client, network switches other network devices.
• Responds to inquiries from staff, administrators, service providers, site personnel and outside vendors and provides technical assistance and support in a timely manner.
• Proactively identify, investigate, and propose resolutions to issues that could impact the network/server infrastructure.
• Contributes to the team in an effort to share knowledge, document procedures and SOPs and provide training where required.
• Conduct research on network products, services, protocols, and standards in support of network procurement and development efforts.
• Provide technical support in installations and maintenances of network systems.
• Support existing networks and perform upgrades as needed.
• Maintain network security firewalls and define network access rights.
• Maintain disaster recovery procedures and contingency plans during system failures.
• Perform network routing, cabling and switching activities.
• Develop and enforce standard operating procedures to ensure quality and productivity.
• Develop system installation and configuration documents for references.
• Design network topologies and identify and correct network non-compliance issues.
• Respond promptly during outages and recommend solutions for performance issues.
• Recommend new networking technologies to improve performance, reliability and scalability.
• Maintain network infrastructure and perform modifications and expansions when needed.
• Work closely with other Network Engineers to plan and complete assigned tasks within deadlines.
• Perform root cause analysis of network issues and recommend corrective actions.
• Security systems development, testing, analysis, and implementation.
• System vulnerability assessment and management.
• Responds to security threats, attacks, and similar events and develops threat prevention strategies.
• Regular generation of reports for executives and administrators.
• Supports the helpdesk function along with the web services support function.

Skills

Network administration

Windows Server

PowerShell scripting

Cybersecurity concepts

Troubleshooting

Documentation & SOPs

Team collaboration

Cloud architecture

Education

Bachelor's degree in computer science

Tools

VMware

Hyper-V

Cisco Meraki

VPN Appliances

SharePoint

Entra ID / Active Directory

Office 365

Nessus

Splunk

Job description

BuildLACCD is seeking a Programmer/Analyst III to manage and secure the organization's network and systems across PMO IT operations and project sites in the LA area. This role reports to the PMO IT Director and requires strong technical skills and collaboration across multiple campuses.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES include configuring and maintaining network devices, applying updates, ensuring system uptime, disaster recovery, and providing Tier 2/3 support.