Benefits:

Competitive salary

Opportunity for advancement

Training & development

Network Administrator

Location: New York City, NY (Hybrid)

Why Join Us

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

About the Role

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 DevOps, Infrastructure, Security, and Engineering teams to ensure performance, uptime, and operational excellence.

What You’ll Do

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

Requirements

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

Nice to Have

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/DevOps/SRE ways of working (change management, automation, collaboration rhythms)

Apply

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.