Network Engineer

Salary: $65,000 - 95,000 per year Requirements:

• We value strong work ethic, technical aptitude, and genuine enthusiasm for IT and networking over formal education.
• We are looking for someone who is passionate about technology, especially compute and network infrastructure, and who wants to understand how systems work at a deep level.
• We want a candidate who is comfortable stepping into unfamiliar situations, learning quickly, and adapting to new challenges.
• You should have direct customer-facing experience, whether in person or by phone, and enjoy helping people.
• You should have experience working on a technical team and be prepared to mentor others and cross-train with colleagues.
• You should have hands-on experience with ticket or case management systems and be able to own work from start to finish with limited oversight.
• You should have strong documentation skills and experience using documentation systems to create clear, peer-friendly materials.
• You should be able to collaborate across multiple locations and time zones while completing tasks thoroughly.
• You should have excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• You should have at least 3 years of operational experience with one or more of the following platforms: Juniper MX/SRX/EX, Arista switching, or Cisco Catalyst/Nexus/ASR.
• You should have at least 3 years of operational experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
• You should have extensive operational experience with routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• You should have extensive operational experience with networking standards and protocols such as EVPN, VXLAN, VRRP, LACP, and VLANs.
• You should have extensive operational experience provisioning IPsec VPN tunnels across multiple platforms.
• You should have operational experience troubleshooting and configuring cloud and hypervisor networking.
• You should have operational experience with L3VPN and MPLS.
• You should have operational experience using NetBox for data center inventory and resource tracking.
• You should have operational experience with VMware vSphere/vCenter basics.
• You should have operational experience with VMware NSX-T.
• You should have experience troubleshooting layer 1 issues, including fiber cross-connects.
• You should have experience deploying and operating Palo Alto Panorama in a multitenant environment.
• Preferred certifications include Juniper JNCIS-SP, Juniper JNCIS-ENT, Cisco CCNA, JNCIA-JUNOS, or Palo Alto PCNSE.
• You should be available for an 8-hour shift Monday through Friday between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. Mountain Standard Time, with some flexibility.
• You should be able to work in a hybrid setup with 3 days per week in our Downtown Phoenix office and 2 days remote.
• You should be open to traveling approximately 4 to 8 weeks per year, excluding company events.
• You should be available for an on-call rotation supporting network-specific escalations.
• You must have 3 years of network engineering experience.
• You must have 3 years of experience with Palo Alto Networks firewalls.
• You must be based in Phoenix, Arizona.

• Provision new cloud customer networking.
• Monitor and troubleshoot our internal and customer network infrastructure to maintain stability and performance.
• Support customer networking requests and issues through tickets.
• Collaborate with other engineers on network escalations, customer projects, new office deployments, and infrastructure rollouts.
• Maintain and continually improve internal and customer-facing documentation.

• Cloud
• Cisco
• Support
• MPLS
• Network
• Nexus
• Phoenix
• VPN
• VMware
• Exposed
• Firewall
• Security

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We are Stellar Technologies, a fast-growing technology services company delivering private cloud, dedicated managed IT services, cybersecurity services, and infrastructure consulting. As an engineer-led organization serving a wide range of industries, we offer broad exposure to modern technologies including cloud, cybersecurity, end-user computing, virtualization, storage, networking, SD-WAN, business continuity, and compliance. We care deeply about our people and offer 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance, life insurance, four weeks of PTO from day one, 401(k) matching after one year, travel opportunities, and training. This is a full-time hybrid Network Engineer role based in Downtown Phoenix, with three in-office days per week, two remote days, occasional travel, and participation in an on-call rotation.

last updated 39 week of 2026