Description Robert Half is looking for an experienced Network/Systems Engineer to support and enhance enterprise infrastructure in Santa Rosa, California. This Network/Systems Engineer is a Contract position for a detail-oriented individual who can maintain reliable, secure, and high-performing network environments while partnering with technical teams, vendors, and end users. The Network/Systems Engineer role focuses on network operations, systems administration, documentation, and continuous improvement across core connectivity and platform services. This This Network/Systems Engineer is a contract position and in Onsite.
Responsibilities:
The Network/Systems Engineer will monitor network health, investigate connectivity and performance issues, and resolve incidents affecting availability, security, and overall system reliability.
Administer core network and server environments, including user access, group permissions, login configurations, shared resources, and printer connectivity.
Plan, configure, install, upgrade, and maintain infrastructure systems and related software to meet operational and business requirements.
Review hardware, operating system, and network performance trends, then recommend improvements that strengthen efficiency, resilience, and security.
Establish and maintain backup, recovery, access control, and data protection procedures to support business continuity and secure operations.
Apply formal change management practices when implementing system updates, configuration changes, and infrastructure enhancements.
Evaluate networking and systems technologies, prepare technical recommendations, and produce clear documentation such as procedures, reports, manuals, and training materials.
Design and support enterprise network architecture spanning multiple platforms, vendor solutions, internet connectivity, email services, and interconnected hardware and software components.
Partner with stakeholders, vendors, and internal teams to scope solutions, estimate effort and cost, support project delivery, and provide escalated technical assistance when needed.
Key Responsibilities
- Administer, monitor, troubleshoot, and maintain enterprise servers, networks, applications, and infrastructure.
- Perform day-to-day LAN, WAN, and server administration.
- Experience with Cisco products (routing and switching)
- Troubleshoot network performance, connectivity, security, availability, hardware, and software issues.
- Create and maintain user accounts, groups, permissions, security access, network resources, and email accounts.
- Install, configure, upgrade, optimize, and maintain server and network hardware and software.
- Monitor infrastructure performance and recommend improvements to reliability, security, and performance.
- Administer and support Microsoft Windows Server environments.
- Support Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Active Directory/Azure Active Directory, IIS, and SQL Server environments.
- Manage VMware server and desktop virtualization technologies.
- Support enterprise storage, backup, recovery, and disaster recovery solutions.
- Establish and maintain data security, system access, backup, and recovery procedures.
Requirements Preferred Experience
- Experience supporting complex, multi-platform enterprise environments.
- Strong Windows Server and Microsoft infrastructure administration experience.
- Hands-on Cisco networking experience.
- Experience with VMware virtualization and enterprise backup/recovery solutions.
- Experience supporting cloud environments such as Azure and AWS.
- Strong understanding of networking, VPN, DNS, routing, security, and disaster recovery.
- Experience managing infrastructure upgrades, migrations, deployments, and other technical projects.
- Ability to troubleshoot complex server, network, storage, desktop, and application issues.
- Strong documentation and change management experience.
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