The Network Engineer supports, maintains, and improves Fitness International’s enterprise network infrastructure from the Irvine, California office. This is an onsite role with no hybrid or remote work arrangement. The position focuses on administration and support of the company’s Fortinet network and security environment, including firewalls, SD-WAN, switching, wireless LAN, authentication, reporting, analytics, endpoint access, and related Fortinet management platforms. This role also supports dynamic routing environments using BGP and OSPF across Fortinet and Arista platforms, while using SolarWinds and Tufin products for monitoring, alerting, reporting, compliance, and operational management.
Employment Details
- Location: Irvine, California office.
- Work arrangement: Full-time, onsite position; hybrid and remote work are not available for this role.
- Schedule: Standard California business hours, with occasional after-hours maintenance or incident support as needed.
- Travel: Minimal travel is expected and may include local driving to the Irvine Data Center.
Key Responsibilities
- Support, administer, and troubleshoot the company’s Fortinet network and security environment, including firewalls, SD-WAN, switching, wireless, authentication, reporting, analytics, endpoint access, and related management platforms.
- Assist with configuration, maintenance, and operational support for BGP and OSPF routing on Fortinet and Arista network platforms.
- Monitor network performance, availability, and security events using SolarWinds and Tufin products.
- Respond to network incidents, service requests, alerts, and escalations in a timely and professional manner.
- Troubleshoot WAN, LAN, wireless LAN, firewall, routing, switching, VPN, and SD-WAN issues across corporate and remote locations.
- Support firewall policy changes, rule reviews, network access requests, and related change management activities.
- Assist with network documentation, including diagrams, configurations, procedures, standards, and troubleshooting guides.
- Work with vendors, service providers, and internal IT teams to resolve network issues and support project work.
- Participate in network upgrades, patching, configuration changes, deployments, and lifecycle maintenance activities.
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide after-hours support for network incidents or maintenance windows as needed.
Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
- Two to five years of hands-on network engineering, network operations, or network support experience.
- Working knowledge of Fortinet firewall administration, Fortinet SD-WAN, Fortinet switching, and Fortinet centralized management tools.
- Working knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP and OSPF.
- Experience supporting LAN, wireless LAN, WAN, VPN, firewall, routing, switching, and SD-WAN environments.
- Experience using network monitoring, alerting, or management platforms such as SolarWinds and Tufin.
- Strong troubleshooting skills with the ability to analyze issues, identify root cause, and drive incidents to resolution.
- Ability to document technical processes, configurations, diagrams, and operational procedures clearly and accurately.
- Ability to communicate technical information clearly to IT teams, business users, vendors, and management.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities, meet deadlines, and work independently or as part of a team.
- Ability to protect sensitive and confidential information.
- Ability to support scheduled maintenance activities and operational changes as needed.
Preferred Qualifications
- Fortinet certifications or formal Fortinet training.
- Arista certifications or formal Arista training.
- Cisco certifications are a plus but are not required.
- Experience with Fortinet management, reporting, authentication, access, switching, wireless LAN, firewall, SD-WAN, or related security platforms is preferred.
- Experience supporting Arista switching or routing environments.
- Experience with firewall policy management, security rule lifecycle, or network compliance tools.
- Experience working in a multi-site retail, enterprise, or distributed network environment.
About Fitness International
Founded in 1984, Fitness International is one of the fastest growing sports club chains in the U.S, currently operating over 660 locations in 25 states and Canada under the LA Fitness, City Sports Clubs and Club Studio brands. Fitness International’s mission is to help as many people as possible achieve the benefits of a healthy lifestyle by creating a nationwide network of sports clubs, offering its members the widest range of amenities and the friendliest service at an affordable price.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability status, or any other protected basis or characteristic. The above position description is intended to describe the general content, identify the essential functions of, and requirement for the performance of this position. It is not to be construed as an exhaustive statement of duties, responsibilities or requirements.
Any conditional offer of employment is contingent upon review of the applicant’s criminal history.
Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance For Employers, San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, and the California Fair Chance Act. Any conditional offer of employment is contingent upon review of the applicant’s criminal history. Under the California Child Day Care Facilities Act (Health & Safety Code § 1596.70 et seq.), the Company is required to obtain a criminal record clearance before the individual is permitted in the facility. Further, the material job duties in this specific job position entail providing nonmedical care to children as part of the employer-sponsored childcare service, provide services to and interact with minors as young as 14 years of age, have access to and work in locker rooms where minors may be present, and obtain and process sensitive and confidential financial and personal information.
Pay: $37.00 - $44.00 per hour
Benefits:
- Dental insurance
- Employee discount
- Health insurance
- Life insurance
- Paid time off
- Vision insurance
Work Location: In person
