Senior Network Engineer (6185)
itD Tech · San Francisco, CA
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Jul 20, 2026
San Francisco, CA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level contract network engineering role (12 months, onsite in San Francisco) embedded with a client's network engineering team. Day-to-day work spans designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN, and wireless infrastructure across corporate and retail sites, managing Palo Alto and Fortinet firewalls, supporting cloud connectivity across Azure/OCI/GCP, and leading high-severity incident triage. Suits an experienced network engineer with a background in retail environments and hands-on firewall and Aruba wireless skills.
Senior level · 8+ years · San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA · Contract
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 35 people in the San Francisco-Oakland-Berkeley, CA area plausibly meet what this posting asks for (network and computer systems administrators). range 7–60
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $132,532 (middle half $103,068–$167,147).
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (12)
This is a 12-month contract engagement (onsite, San Francisco, CA), not a permanent hire.
The role sits at the boundary between 15-1244 (Network/Systems Administration) and 15-1299 (Network Engineering as a distinct specialty). The posting emphasizes design, architecture, and engineering alongside operations, which leans toward a network engineering classification; 15-1244 was chosen as the closest available code.
The 3+ years of Layer 7 firewall experience (Fortinet/PAN) is stated in the Requirements section with firm language; both vendors are listed as interchangeable alternatives for the same gate.
The 2+ years of cloud networking experience is stated as required with Azure preferred; OCI and GCP appear in the responsibilities narrative and are marked preferred.
Aruba wireless is explicitly called 'Must have'; Aruba ClearPass is described as 'extremely helpful' — listed as preferred accordingly.
Scripting languages (Python, Ansible, PowerShell, VBScript) are framed as 'Prefer some experience' — marked preferred with alternatives.
Automation/GenAI, LLMs, prompt engineering, and RAG are described as 'a big plus' or aspirational — all marked preferred.
F5 load balancer experience appears under a 'preferred' framing ('Load balancer experience') with no firm gate language.
SolarWinds appears alongside Splunk in a requirements-adjacent sentence but is not called out with firm gate language the way Splunk is; marked preferred.
Visio/Lucidchart and Jira/Confluence appear in the collaboration/documentation section as tools used, not as hard gates — marked preferred.
No compensation range was provided in the posting.
Posting is for a contract engagement — the market benchmarks below price full-time roles, so read the comp comparison with that in mind.
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