[Remote] Remote | Network Data & Automation Engineer — $40–$60/hour
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG is offering a specialized part-time consulting opportunity for experienced network engineers. The role focuses on network data review, enterprise infrastructure analysis, and scripting, requiring professionals to analyze real-world data and prepare it for machine learning workflows.
Responsibilities
- Review real-world data from deployed networks, including logs, configurations, telemetry, event streams, and related infrastructure data
- Label, classify, and analyze network behaviors, issues, anomalies, and recurring patterns
- Interpret logs, events, time-series metrics, packet captures, and troubleshooting evidence
- Apply Level 3 or Tier 3 troubleshooting judgment to identify root causes, stability issues, and meaningful network signals
- Write scripts or tools to process, clean, redact, classify, and transform network data
- Use Python, Bash, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar tools for log processing, compliance checks, monitoring support, configuration audits, or data preparation
- Help define schemas and structure for large-scale network data pipelines
- Support high-quality data preparation so raw infrastructure data can be used effectively in machine learning systems
- Apply hands-on experience with enterprise networks, including switches, access points, firewalls, and related infrastructure
- Work from real support scenarios involving outages, final escalations, RCAs, on-call troubleshooting, and stability issues
- Analyze end-customer network environments across industries such as retail, healthcare, finance, manufacturing, universities, hospitality, or similar sectors
- Collaborate with project teams to improve data quality, usability, and technical accuracy
Skills
- Experience as a Level 3, Tier 3, Principal Support Engineer, senior network support engineer, or comparable enterprise network specialist
- Strong scripting ability using Python, Bash, Ansible, PowerShell, or similar tools
- Enterprise infrastructure troubleshooting expertise
- Interest in how network data supports intelligent infrastructure systems
- Hands-on experience with enterprise networks, including switches, access points, firewalls, and related infrastructure
- Experience with end-customer enterprise networks involving switches, access points, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, routing, switching, or security appliances
- Comfort interpreting logs, events, telemetry, packet captures, and time-series metrics
- Ability to work independently in a remote, project-based environment
- Academic backgrounds in network engineering, computer science, information systems, cybersecurity, data engineering, electrical engineering, or related technical fields
- Equivalent hands-on enterprise network support experience
- Professional certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, JNCIP, JNCIE, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto, or comparable networking certifications
- Experience automating network support tasks or working with data pipelines
- Familiarity with telemetry systems, syslog, SNMP, NetFlow, sFlow, Splunk, ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, or related observability tools
- Experience with log redaction, compliance checks, monitoring automation, configuration validation, or large-scale network data preparation
- Exposure to ML-ready data pipelines, infrastructure analytics, or autonomous networking concepts
- Availability for full-time project commitment depending on project scope
Benefits
- Independent contractor role
- Fully remote with flexible scheduling
- Eligible professionals should be based in the United States depending on project needs
- San Francisco, CA onsite collaboration may be preferred depending on project requirements
- Full-time commitment depending on project scope
- Weekly payments via Stripe or Wise
- Projects may be extended, shortened, or adjusted depending on scope and performance
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