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Remote network operations specialist jobs are open across the U.S. in sectors like telecommunications, cloud services, managed IT services, and cybersecurity, at companies ranging from remote-first technology firms to distributed enterprise teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include PDI Technologies, NPSS, and SAIC. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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About Us:
Effortless Office partners with our customers to make IT effortless so they can focus on their business. As a Hybrid Managed Services Provider (MSP) with a focus on providing world-class customer experience, we deliver and fully support secure cloud solutions as well as comprehensive managed IT and network services.
About the Role:
Effortless is looking for a Network Operations Manager who is an excellent leader and engineer. This is a player-coach role: you will lead our network engineering team while remaining one of the company's top escalation and design resources for enterprise, high-availability, multi-platform networks.
You will own the health, security, and continuous improvement of the networks we manage for our customers and within our own Switch data center infrastructure. We expect you to be proactive: you will not wait for tickets. You and your team will regularly review client environments, find risk, capacity, and performance gaps before they become outages, and bring clear, cost-effective recommendations to our customers and Service Delivery Teams.
The ideal candidate has served as a Senior Network Engineer, has the technical depth to earn the respect of senior engineers, and has the leadership skills to develop them. You set a high standard, communicate clearly, take ownership, and care about the customer experience.
Position Details:
Reports to: President
Direct reports: Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers
Location: Remote with a preference for someone in/near Las Vegas, NV.
Travel: Some travel required for data center work, client site visits, and special projects.
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00-5:00 PST, with 24/7 escalation availability for major incidents and management of the team's on-call rotation.
Benefits:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K + employer match
- Paid time off and holidays
- Opportunities for career growth and development
- Training and certification support
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Engineering Excellence
- Serves as the company's senior network engineering authority and final escalation point in core routing and switching, network security, and network diagnostics.
- Designs, reviews, and approves complex network configurations and architecture, including hardware and software technology, site locations, business continuity, disaster recovery, and integration of technologies.
- Personally assesses and resolves the most complex data network problems and incidents, and leads major incident response through to resolution and root cause analysis.
- Owns the design, standards, and lifecycle of Effortless's own network infrastructure at our Switch data centers, including Cisco Nexus, Firepower, and SDWAN (Meraki and Cisco Viptela) environments.
- Sets and maintains network engineering standards, configuration baselines, and documentation requirements in IT Glue, and reviews the team's work for quality and consistency.
- Reviews analyses and technical feasibility to develop data network deployment strategies, resource requirements, and cost estimates.
Proactive Client Improvement
- Leads a regular program of proactive network reviews across client environments to find security, reliability, capacity, and performance gaps before they cause issues.
- Uses Auvik monitoring, ticket trends in Autotask, and assessment data to identify recurring problems and drive permanent fixes rather than repeated reactive work.
- Assesses data network growth forecasts and ensures business needs are translated into network capacity requirements.
- Partners with Service Delivery Managers, Technical Account Managers, and ESAs to turn findings into clear, cost-effective recommendations for each client's technology roadmap.
- Tracks hardware and firmware end-of-life, vulnerabilities, and configuration drift across managed networks and plans remediation.
- Brings the customer's perspective to every recommendation: leads with business outcomes, not technology features.
Leadership
- Hires, onboards, coaches, and develops Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers, including technical mentoring and certification planning.
- Sets clear expectations, holds regular 1-on-1s, conducts performance reviews, and holds the team accountable using EOS tools (Rocks, Scorecards, Issues, To-Dos) in Strety.
- Manages team workload, project priorities, and resource availability, and plans and coordinates cross-functional or cross-company work.
- Owns network change management: reviews and approves changes, maintenance windows, and rollback plans.
- Manages the team's 24/7 on-call rotation and escalation process, and ensures after-hours coverage meets Effortless's service standards.
- Communicates status, risk, and outcomes clearly to leadership, Service Delivery Teams, and customers, following our CWC (Communicate, Work, Communicate) value.
Operations and Compliance
- Defines, tracks, and reports on network operations KPIs (see Success Measures below).
- Manages relationships with network vendors and carriers, including escalations, and supports procurement and licensing decisions.
- Ensures all compliance aspects of the position and team are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to the position and company, including client HIPAA, PCI, and NIST requirements.
- Maintains sensitive and confidential information regarding company and customer information.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education and Work Experience
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience with Service Provider, MSP, or enterprise networking or general telecommunications
- 3+ years in a Senior Network Engineer (or equivalent) role, serving as the top escalation and design resource for complex networks (required)
- 2+ years leading engineers as a manager, team lead, or technical lead, with direct responsibility for work assignment and mentoring
- MSP or multi-client environment experience strongly preferred
Specialized Knowledge and Skills
- Expert enterprise networking fundamentals, including complex switching and routing, high availability system design, advanced network security design, Internet services and protocols, and advanced network diagnostics.
- Demonstrated expert proficiency in at least three of the following, with advanced skills in the balance: core routing, core switching, network security, network diagnostics, and application load balancing.
- Top expert level analysis and design skills: gathering data on systems issues, defining alternative approaches, assessing business impact, and recommending, developing, and implementing cost-effective solutions.
- A track record of proactively finding and fixing problems in environments you support, with examples you can walk us through.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and hold engineers accountable while staying hands-on.
- Excellent oral and written communication, including explaining technical risk and recommendations to non-technical customers and executives.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, incidents, and people concurrently.
- Advanced knowledge of current technologies, tools, applications, and vendors.
Certifications (preferred)
- CCNP Enterprise or Security, or equivalent experience; CCIE a strong plus
- Fortinet NSE, Meraki (CMNA/ECMS), or other vendor certifications
- ITIL Foundation or similar service management certification
Equipment and Applications
- Cisco Routers (ISR/ASR), Catalyst/Nexus Switches, Firepower and ASA Firewalls
- Cisco Viptela and Meraki SDWAN; Meraki Firewalls, Switches, and Wireless
- Fortinet Firewalls, FortiCloud, FortiClient
- Sophos Firewalls and Wireless
- SonicWALL Firewalls
- Unifi LAN Devices
- Ability to learn additional network platforms as needed
- VMware virtualization platforms (Platform9 a plus)
- Windows Servers and Services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP)
- Auvik Monitoring
- Autotask PSA and IT Glue (or similar PSA and documentation platforms)
- MS Office, Visio, and collaboration tools
Why Join EO?
At EO, our employees are what makes us special. We are a highly collaborative company with a very involved senior leadership team that invests in their staff. We strive to be a company where every employee has a voice, everyone takes pride in their work and gets satisfaction from helping people, and where every employee is constantly learning and driving improvements.
We are aligned through our core values and seek employees that embody these:
- Service – we are dedicated to providing EFFORTLESS support and solutions. We ensure client and end user satisfaction in every interaction.
- CWC – this stands for Communicate, Work, Communicate, because communication is twice as important as the work we do.
- Perspective – we embrace the customer’s viewpoint to inspire confidence and meet expectations.
- Efficiency – we maximize output and minimize wasted time, effort, and resources.
- Passion – we bring energy and enthusiasm to everything we do and are driven by a commitment to excellence.
- Reliability – we consistency delivery on promises, follow through on commitments, and are dependable in all situations.
- Merit – we recognize and reward talent, hard work, and the pursuit of excellence.
Inclusion & Equal Opportunity Employment
Effortless Office is an equal opportunity employer committed to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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About Us:
Effortless Office partners with our customers to make IT effortless so they can focus on their business. As a Hybrid Managed Services Provider (MSP) with a focus on providing world-class customer experience, we deliver and fully support secure cloud solutions as well as comprehensive managed IT and network services.
About the Role:
Effortless is looking for a Network Operations Manager who is an excellent leader and engineer. This is a player-coach role: you will lead our network engineering team while remaining one of the company's top escalation and design resources for enterprise, high-availability, multi-platform networks.
You will own the health, security, and continuous improvement of the networks we manage for our customers and within our own Switch data center infrastructure. We expect you to be proactive: you will not wait for tickets. You and your team will regularly review client environments, find risk, capacity, and performance gaps before they become outages, and bring clear, cost-effective recommendations to our customers and Service Delivery Teams.
The ideal candidate has served as a Senior Network Engineer, has the technical depth to earn the respect of senior engineers, and has the leadership skills to develop them. You set a high standard, communicate clearly, take ownership, and care about the customer experience.
Position Details:
Reports to: President
Direct reports: Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers
Location: Remote with a preference for someone in/near Las Vegas, NV.
Travel: Some travel required for data center work, client site visits, and special projects.
Schedule: Monday - Friday 8:00-5:00 PST, with 24/7 escalation availability for major incidents and management of the team's on-call rotation.
Benefits:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- 401K + employer match
- Paid time off and holidays
- Opportunities for career growth and development
- Training and certification support
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Engineering Excellence
- Serves as the company's senior network engineering authority and final escalation point in core routing and switching, network security, and network diagnostics.
- Designs, reviews, and approves complex network configurations and architecture, including hardware and software technology, site locations, business continuity, disaster recovery, and integration of technologies.
- Personally assesses and resolves the most complex data network problems and incidents, and leads major incident response through to resolution and root cause analysis.
- Owns the design, standards, and lifecycle of Effortless's own network infrastructure at our Switch data centers, including Cisco Nexus, Firepower, and SDWAN (Meraki and Cisco Viptela) environments.
- Sets and maintains network engineering standards, configuration baselines, and documentation requirements in IT Glue, and reviews the team's work for quality and consistency.
- Reviews analyses and technical feasibility to develop data network deployment strategies, resource requirements, and cost estimates.
Proactive Client Improvement
- Leads a regular program of proactive network reviews across client environments to find security, reliability, capacity, and performance gaps before they cause issues.
- Uses Auvik monitoring, ticket trends in Autotask, and assessment data to identify recurring problems and drive permanent fixes rather than repeated reactive work.
- Assesses data network growth forecasts and ensures business needs are translated into network capacity requirements.
- Partners with Service Delivery Managers, Technical Account Managers, and ESAs to turn findings into clear, cost-effective recommendations for each client's technology roadmap.
- Tracks hardware and firmware end-of-life, vulnerabilities, and configuration drift across managed networks and plans remediation.
- Brings the customer's perspective to every recommendation: leads with business outcomes, not technology features.
Leadership
- Hires, onboards, coaches, and develops Network Engineers and Senior Network Engineers, including technical mentoring and certification planning.
- Sets clear expectations, holds regular 1-on-1s, conducts performance reviews, and holds the team accountable using EOS tools (Rocks, Scorecards, Issues, To-Dos) in Strety.
- Manages team workload, project priorities, and resource availability, and plans and coordinates cross-functional or cross-company work.
- Owns network change management: reviews and approves changes, maintenance windows, and rollback plans.
- Manages the team's 24/7 on-call rotation and escalation process, and ensures after-hours coverage meets Effortless's service standards.
- Communicates status, risk, and outcomes clearly to leadership, Service Delivery Teams, and customers, following our CWC (Communicate, Work, Communicate) value.
Operations and Compliance
- Defines, tracks, and reports on network operations KPIs (see Success Measures below).
- Manages relationships with network vendors and carriers, including escalations, and supports procurement and licensing decisions.
- Ensures all compliance aspects of the position and team are known and followed; understands and complies with all policies, codes, and regulations applicable to the position and company, including client HIPAA, PCI, and NIST requirements.
- Maintains sensitive and confidential information regarding company and customer information.
- Performs related duties as assigned.
Qualifications:
Education and Work Experience
- Bachelor's degree in information systems, computer science, or a related technical field
- 10+ years of experience with Service Provider, MSP, or enterprise networking or general telecommunications
- 3+ years in a Senior Network Engineer (or equivalent) role, serving as the top escalation and design resource for complex networks (required)
- 2+ years leading engineers as a manager, team lead, or technical lead, with direct responsibility for work assignment and mentoring
- MSP or multi-client environment experience strongly preferred
Specialized Knowledge and Skills
- Expert enterprise networking fundamentals, including complex switching and routing, high availability system design, advanced network security design, Internet services and protocols, and advanced network diagnostics.
- Demonstrated expert proficiency in at least three of the following, with advanced skills in the balance: core routing, core switching, network security, network diagnostics, and application load balancing.
- Top expert level analysis and design skills: gathering data on systems issues, defining alternative approaches, assessing business impact, and recommending, developing, and implementing cost-effective solutions.
- A track record of proactively finding and fixing problems in environments you support, with examples you can walk us through.
- Proven ability to lead, coach, and hold engineers accountable while staying hands-on.
- Excellent oral and written communication, including explaining technical risk and recommendations to non-technical customers and executives.
- Ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects, incidents, and people concurrently.
- Advanced knowledge of current technologies, tools, applications, and vendors.
Certifications (preferred)
- CCNP Enterprise or Security, or equivalent experience; CCIE a strong plus
- Fortinet NSE, Meraki (CMNA/ECMS), or other vendor certifications
- ITIL Foundation or similar service management certification
Equipment and Applications
- Cisco Routers (ISR/ASR), Catalyst/Nexus Switches, Firepower and ASA Firewalls
- Cisco Viptela and Meraki SDWAN; Meraki Firewalls, Switches, and Wireless
- Fortinet Firewalls, FortiCloud, FortiClient
- Sophos Firewalls and Wireless
- SonicWALL Firewalls
- Unifi LAN Devices
- Ability to learn additional network platforms as needed
- VMware virtualization platforms (Platform9 a plus)
- Windows Servers and Services (Active Directory, DNS, DHCP)
- Auvik Monitoring
- Autotask PSA and IT Glue (or similar PSA and documentation platforms)
- MS Office, Visio, and collaboration tools
Why Join EO?
At EO, our employees are what makes us special. We are a highly collaborative company with a very involved senior leadership team that invests in their staff. We strive to be a company where every employee has a voice, everyone takes pride in their work and gets satisfaction from helping people, and where every employee is constantly learning and driving improvements.
We are aligned through our core values and seek employees that embody these:
- Service – we are dedicated to providing EFFORTLESS support and solutions. We ensure client and end user satisfaction in every interaction.
- CWC – this stands for Communicate, Work, Communicate, because communication is twice as important as the work we do.
- Perspective – we embrace the customer’s viewpoint to inspire confidence and meet expectations.
- Efficiency – we maximize output and minimize wasted time, effort, and resources.
- Passion – we bring energy and enthusiasm to everything we do and are driven by a commitment to excellence.
- Reliability – we consistency delivery on promises, follow through on commitments, and are dependable in all situations.
- Merit – we recognize and reward talent, hard work, and the pursuit of excellence.
Inclusion & Equal Opportunity Employment
Effortless Office is an equal opportunity employer committed to Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and applicants. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other legally protected status.
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What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote network operations specialist jobs.
- Experience with network monitoring tools and fault management systems
- Proficiency in TCP/IP, routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP, and switching
- CompTIA Network+, CCNA, or equivalent vendor certification strongly preferred
- Ability to troubleshoot WAN, LAN, and VPN connectivity issues under pressure
- Experience working in a 24/7 NOC environment with SLA-driven ticket management
- Associate or bachelor's degree in information technology, networking, or a related field
Tips for Your Remote Network Operations Specialist Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote network operations specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience level and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Prove you can work a remote NOC shift
Remote employers want to know you can handle on-call incidents and escalations without walking down the hall. Document specific incidents you resolved independently, name the monitoring tools you used, and describe how you communicated status updates asynchronously to stakeholders.
Show your remote toolstack upfront
List your proficiency with remote network monitoring platforms like PRTG, SolarWinds, Nagios, or Zabbix prominently in your resume and application. Remote hiring managers filter candidates quickly on tool familiarity before moving to any other criteria.
Prepare for async technical screens
Many remote network operations specialist hiring processes include take-home troubleshooting scenarios or async video interviews. Practice walking through a network outage diagnosis in writing, explaining your reasoning step by step as if the hiring manager is in a different time zone.
Remote Network Operations Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote network operations specialist job?
Target companies with distributed infrastructure teams, such as managed service providers, cloud-native firms, and telecom operators that run 24/7 network operations centers with remote staff. Remote employers screen heavily for self-direction, clear written communication, and proficiency with remote monitoring tools like PRTG, SolarWinds, or Nagios. Documenting your incident-response work and showing async communication habits gives you a real edge over candidates who only list hardware skills.
Which companies hire remote network operations specialists?
Employers currently hiring remote network operations specialists include PDI Technologies, NPSS, and SAIC, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These tend to be managed service providers, cloud infrastructure companies, and large enterprises with distributed network operations centers that operate across multiple time zones.
Can you get a remote network operations specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to troubleshoot independently without in-person support. Managed service providers and IT staffing firms are the most common entry points, and they look for CompTIA Network+ or CCNA certifications, familiarity with ticketing systems, and a home lab or personal project that shows you've worked with real network configurations on your own.
Do you need a degree for remote network operations specialist jobs?
Not always. Remote employers weigh hands-on skills, vendor certifications like CCNA or CompTIA Network+, and a demonstrated history of monitoring and resolving network issues more heavily than a degree. An associate degree or a combination of certifications and verifiable project work will satisfy most remote hiring managers, though larger enterprise employers may still list a bachelor's degree as preferred.
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