[Hiring] Network Engineer @the Opportunity

Role Description

We are seeking experienced Level 3 / Tier 3 Network Engineers and Principal Support Engineers to help structure and annotate real-world networking data used to develop AI-driven infrastructure systems. This role combines hands-on network troubleshooting, packet analysis, incident response, and root-cause analysis with data annotation and classification. Your networking expertise will help define how AI systems understand network behavior, failures, anomalies, and production incidents. This is a hands-on network maintenance and escalation role rather than a network architecture or design position.

• Review real-world networking data, including logs, configurations, telemetry, and event streams.
• Label and classify network behaviors, incidents, anomalies, and failure patterns.
• Analyze networking events and identify likely causes, symptoms, and operational outcomes.
• Apply your troubleshooting and incident-response expertise to evaluate networking data.
• Help define schemas, classifications, and structures for large-scale datasets.
• Provide domain expertise that supports downstream machine learning and AI systems.

Qualifications

• Current or recent experience as a Level 3, Tier 3, Principal Support, or equivalent Network Engineer, handling final escalations, outages, troubleshooting, on-call responsibilities, and root-cause analysis.
• Strong hands-on experience supporting enterprise customer networks, including switches, wireless access points, firewalls, and related infrastructure.
• Experience supporting enterprise environments such as retail, healthcare, financial services, manufacturing, higher education, or hospitality.
• Strong enterprise Wi-Fi/wireless networking experience.
• Experience with technologies such as Cisco WLC, Aruba, Meraki, 802.1X, and RADIUS.
• Hands-on packet-level troubleshooting using tools such as Wireshark, tcpdump, and SPAN captures.
• Strong incident investigation and technical troubleshooting skills.
• Interest in how infrastructure data is transformed into inputs for machine learning and AI systems.
• Excellent analytical skills and attention to detail.

Requirements

• This position is best suited to engineers who maintain and troubleshoot production networks and regularly handle complex escalations.
• It may not be the right fit if your current focus is primarily:
• Network architecture or design
• Cloud or SRE
• Cybersecurity or SOC operations
• IT helpdesk or first/second-line support

Contract Details

• Hours: 30–40 hours per week.
• Schedule: Availability must overlap with Pacific Time (PT) business hours.
• Work arrangement: Fully remote.
• Engagement: Individual independent contractor (1099).
• Billing: Personal accounts only; no agency or corporation-to-corporation billing.
• Must be authorized to work in the United States or Canada without sponsorship.
• Payments are made weekly based on services rendered.
• Projects may be extended, shortened, or concluded early depending on project requirements and performance.
• H-1B and STEM OPT candidates are not currently supported.

Why Join

• Apply your real-world network operations expertise to advanced AI development.
• Help shape how AI systems understand production networking environments.
• Work directly on data used to improve intelligent infrastructure systems.
• Combine deep technical networking experience with emerging AI and data workflows.

Ideal Candidate

A hands-on L3/Tier 3 network support professional with strong enterprise networking, wireless, packet analysis, incident response, and RCA experience who is interested in applying that expertise to AI data and autonomous infrastructure.

Skills

• Network Engineering