Network Administrator

Location:

New York City, NY (Hybrid)

• Competitive salary
• Opportunity for advancement
• Training & development
• Network Administrator

Support high-performance infrastructure in the interactive entertainment space

Competitive contract compensation aligned to senior networking expertise

Hybrid flexibility in NYC (onsite collaboration + focused remote execution)

Work with modern networking technologies supporting development pipelines and live services

Join a collaborative culture focused on reliability, speed, and continuous improvement

We are seeking a highly skilled Network Administrator with 10+ years of experience and exposure to gaming/interactive entertainment environments. This contract, hybrid role (NYC) focuses on building and supporting high-availability, secure, low-latency network infrastructure that enables development workflows and production services. You’ll partner with Dev Ops, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams to ensure performance, uptime, and operational excellence.

• Design, configure, and maintain network infrastructure: routing, switching, segmentation, and access controls
• Ensure high availability and low-latency performance across development and production environments
• Monitor network health, detect issues early, and lead incident resolution using best-practice workflows
• Implement/manage firewalls, VPNs, and security protocols to protect services, users, and data
• Support cloud-integrated and hybrid networking (AWS/Azure/GCP): connectivity, routing, peering/VPN, policy enforcement
• Perform capacity planning, bandwidth forecasting, and scalability assessments for growth and release demands
• Support release readiness, change management, and cross-environment stability (dev/stage/prod)
• Maintain documentation: configurations, standards, runbooks, and incident response processes
• Conduct root cause analysis for outages/performance degradation; deliver preventative and long-term fixes
• Improve monitoring, alerting, automation, and network reliability practices

• Experience in environments demanding performance, uptime, and rapid response (development + production ops)
• Strong networking fundamentals: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, routing, switching, segmentation
• Hands-on with enterprise networking:
  Cisco, Juniper, or similar
• Hands-on with firewalls:
  Palo Alto, Fortinet, or equivalent
• Strong troubleshooting across L2–L7 with performance optimization/stability improvements
• Working knowledge of cloud networking: VPC/VNet, security groups, routing, peering/VPN connectivity
• Familiarity with monitoring/logging and incident management practices (tools flexible)
• 10+ years in Network Administration / Network Engineering

• Experience supporting live gaming or multiplayer services with strict latency requirements
• Knowledge of low-latency design, traffic optimization, and CDNs
• CCNA/CCNP or equivalent
• Exposure to Agile/Dev Ops/SRE ways of working (change management, automation, collaboration rhythms)

If you enjoy building stable, secure, low-latency networks that power modern gaming experiences, we’d like to hear from you.

Ready to make an impact? Apply now and join us on our journey!

Flexible work from home options available.