Job Information
Insight Global Network Engineer in Santa Clara, California
Job Description
Insight Global is seeking a skilled Network Engineer to join a leading client in Santa Clara to provide critical local support to the network infrastructure. The role requires 3+ years of FortiGate firewall experience, 4+ years with Cisco/Dell switching technologies, and hands-on expertise with both VMware and Proxmox virtualization platforms. You'll lead network troubleshooting efforts, support a major data center redesign project starting in April 2026, and travel to Austin for 1-2 week project deployments as needed. The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of mid to senior level network engineering experience and be available to start immediately, and will not require training to begin.
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Skills and Requirements
5+ years of experience as a Network Engineer
Physical, hands on experience installing network equipment in data centers (racking, stacking, cable management)
Experience with FortiGate firewalls
Expertise with Cisco switching (or Dell)
Basic Linux systems knowledge
Experience with VMware and Proxmox
Experience with Monitoring tools such as: Grafana dashboards, Zabbix, alerting systems
Automation Experience with Ansible, Terraform, infrastructure as code