At BuzzFeed, we foster a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, humble confidence, and infusing hard work and fun. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world. Come join us!

About the Job:

You will join an IT team of about 22 team members, and this position will be reporting to the IT Network & Infrastructure Manager in LA. Responsibilities for this role include providing network design, implementation, and support for 19 offices globally, redundancy and network security planning, and contributing to internal IT documentation.

• Ownership over office networks & enterprise systems
• Coordinate with facilities team and vendors regarding cabling & network equipment
• WAN and LAN network design and implementation
• Onsite installation and configuration of network infrastructure for new offices and expansions
• Respond to, record, track, and close tickets through help desk/problem management software—detail is critical!
• Perform monitoring, testing and troubleshooting
• Setup and solving problems with user and site-to-site VPN
• Perform firmware and hardware network upgrades
• Test and evaluate new technologies
• Continued education and skill development
• Mentorship and training of other IT team members

About You:

• Balanced combination of technical, analytical and interpersonal skills
• Ability to clearly and effectively communicate technical information, both verbal and written, to colleagues and users
• Ability to work independently
• Ability to multitask, prioritize and work under stress
• Interested in coming up with unique solutions to support a fast-paced media/video production environment on short project timelines
• Flexibility to work late hours as needed during site build outs or major outages
• 5+ years equivalent experience
• Experience configuring and fixing Cisco Meraki/Fortinet/Juniper networking equipment
• Deep understanding and hands-on experience with network principles like routing, switching, VLANs, and 802.11a/b/g/n/ac wireless, TCP, ARP, STP, DNS, DHCP, etc
• Networking certifications are a plus: CCNA, CCNP, CWNA, etc.

About BuzzFeed:

BuzzFeed is the leading independent digital media and tech company delivering news and entertainment content to a global audience. We have offices in 19 cities around the world and more than 1500 employees including reporters, video producers, data scientists, engineers, brand strategists, and more. We fuse hard work and fun through a culture of experimentation, teamwork, equality, and humble confidence. As an employee, you’ll enjoy perks like office events, snacks, career development courses, and no work on your birthday! But most importantly, you’ll work with inspiring colleagues to build tools and create content that helps connect people all over the world.