Network Engineer (PAN, Juniper, Fortinet) at Ursus, Inc. in Houston, TX
- Company: Ursus, Inc.
- Location: Houston, TX
- Posted: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Contract
- Salary: $55-$70 per hour
- Experience: 6+ years
Overview
Job Title: Network Engineer Location: Houston, TX Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire Rate Range: $60-70/hour Specialize in network engineering in a global enterprise environment. This role will provide network engineering, implementation, analytical, and operational support. The engineer will ensu…
Job description
- Job Title: Network Engineer
- Location: Houston, TX
- Duration: 6+ Months Contract to Hire
- Rate Range: $60-70/hour
- Specialize in network engineering in a global enterprise environment. This role will provide network engineering, implementation, analytical, and operational support. The engineer will ensure compliance to established system architecture, regulations and security policies, follow standards and best practices, and author and maintain support documentation.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with Staff Network Engineers on design and initiatives
- Maintain current network solution within workplace, factories, and logistics warehouses
- Function as a Tier-1/2 escalation point
- Collaborate with manufacturing engineers on requirements gathering, analyze, and propose solution to networking needs
- Provision, implement, test/validation, and maintain networking services per solution design
- Discipline on following change request process
- Monitor, analyze, and report metrics of network services
- Document network knowledgebase and operational “Run-Book”
- Must be able to work occasional weekends, after hours, and holidays
- 10% travel required as necessary
Requirements
- 6+ years’ experience mid-large global enterprise networking infrastructure
- Extensive experience in IP networking, L2/L3 network protocols (spanning-tree, OSPF, BGP), LAN/WAN, TCP/IP, DHCP, DNS, routing, QOS, VLAN, ACL, application flow, NAC, and infrastructure cabling.
- Experience with multi-vendor firewall technologies including Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, and Juniper SRX
- Extensive experience with multi-vendor switching technologies including Juniper EX and QFX and Cisco Industrial Ethernet
- Extensive experience with low voltage CAT6, Fiber, & IT Room layout and environmental
- Experience with troubleshooting with circuit carriers
- Experience with various tools such as Protocol Analyzer, Git, and Splunk
- Experience with developing scripts to automate infrastructure deployment and collect metrics
- Proficient in Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio
- Excellent organizational skills and solid team player
- Solid analytical skills to troubleshoot high level, complex technical problems
- Excellent verbal, written, and communication
- Maintain a high degree of professionalism and integrity
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Skills
Required
- IP networking
- LAN/WAN
- TCP/IP
- DHCP
- DNS
- routing
- QOS
- VLAN
- ACL
- application flow
- NAC
- infrastructure cabling
Benefits
- Individual compensation is determined by skills, qualifications, experience, and location. Compensation details listed in this posting reflect the base hourly rate or annual salary only, unless otherwise stated. In addition to base compensation, full-time roles are eligible for Medical, Dental, Vision, Commuter and 401K benefits with company matching.