Golden1 in Sacramento is seeking an experienced DevOps Engineer II. This role involves leading automation in both cloud and on-premises environments, managing CI/CD pipelines, and ensuring application uptime with a focus…
Engineering & IT · Sacramento, CA
Network Engineer jobs in Sacramento, CA
Network engineers design, build, and maintain the networks that connect an organization — routing, switching, wireless, firewalls, and increasingly cloud and software-defined networking.
536
Open roles today
$30–$75/hr
Typical pay range
$105k
Median, full-time
8
Fresh in this list
No email, no resume, no sign-up. Save any listing below and you start anonymously.
You're signed in. Saving a listing drops it straight into your pipeline.
01
Open network engineer roles
11 shown of 536 · sorted by freshness
Join to apply for the Principal Engineer, Data Platforms role at Speridian Technologies 3 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the Principal Engineer, Data Platforms role at Speridian Technologies…
$135.8k - $286.4k
Your Journey at Crowe Starts Here: At Crowe, you can build a meaningful and rewarding career. With real flexibility to balance work with life moments, you’re trusted to deliver results and make an impact. We embrace you…
Apple in USA is seeking a Software Engineer to join its platform tooling team. You will build and maintain pivotal pipelines, automate build and deployment, and extend SCM applications across multiple repositories and la…
$150k - $160k
Headquartered in Sacramento, CA, our teams collaborate closely across engineering, manufacturing, and operations to build reliable, high quality... ...Entra ID, Intune, Defender, Azure services, and a Cisco-based network…
Role: Under general direction of the Information Technology Manager I, the Information Technology Specialist II (ITS II) Cloud Engineer serves as DHCS’ primary technical expert responsible for designing and modernizing c…
$115k - $135k
week in the office) Must reside in CA. Senior Azure DevOps Engineer Must be authorized to work in the US without visa sponsorship... ...and configuration of AKS, Azure Key Vault, Azure Virtual Networking, KeyCloak, vario…
Job Description and Duties The Information Technology Specialist III (ITS III) will be responsible for the overall network and network security architecture of the Department, with a mastery focus on the design and imple…
$47.16 - $53.85 per hour
Job Description Job Description The Technical Solutions Engineer is a hands-on technical role responsible for developing, supporting... ...established IT policy and procedures including technology, security, network stan…
$100k
This role sits at the intersection of technical expertise and commercial acumen. The ideal candidate can walk a building with an engineer' s eye, quantify energy waste and ROI for an owner, navigate utility rebate progra…
Job Description Job Description Description: The Sr. Network Operations Engineer – Microsoft Azure is responsible for the supervision of the network infrastructure, including configuration, installation, maintenance, cyb…
02
What network engineers earn in Sacramento
Hourly first — that's how the offer arrives
| Experience | Hourly | Annual, full-time |
|---|---|---|
| Entry level | $30–$43 | $63k–$89k |
| Mid level | $43–$58 | $89k–$121k |
| Senior | $56–$75 | $117k–$157k |
Adjusted for the Sacramento market from national ranges.
03
What employers ask for
The skills these listings keep naming
Routing and switching (BGP, OSPF)Cisco or Juniper platformsFirewalls and VPNsTCP/IP deep knowledgeWireless networkingNetwork monitoring toolsCloud networking (VPC, SD-WAN)Automation (Python, Ansible)Documentation and diagrams
04
Interview questions worth rehearsing
With the thing the interviewer is actually listening for
Users at one site report intermittent connectivity. How do you troubleshoot?
Work the layers: physical, then switching, routing, and upstream — using monitoring data to narrow scope. Intermittent issues test patience and method, so show both.
Explain what happens at each OSI layer when a user loads a website.
Keep it crisp and accurate through the layers; this is a fluency check. Tie each layer to a real troubleshooting tool you would use there.
How would you design the network for a new office?
Ask about size and needs first, then cover segmentation, redundancy, wireless coverage, and internet failover. Mentioning documentation and future growth rounds it out.
When would you use BGP versus OSPF?
External versus internal routing in essence — explain it through where each lives in a real network you have run rather than textbook definitions alone.
Tell me about a change you made that caused an outage, and what you learned.
Everyone in networking has one. Show the discipline that came out of it: change windows, peer review, rollback configs staged in advance.
How are you using automation in network operations?
Config templating, compliance checks, or Python/Ansible scripts — even small examples count. The field is moving this way and interviewers check for the trajectory.
05
Resume tips that move the needle
For network engineers specifically — generic advice costs you here
01
State network scale: sites, users, devices, and bandwidth managed — it is the first credibility check.
02
List certifications prominently (CCNA, CCNP) since networking still hires heavily on them.
03
Name specific platforms (Cisco IOS/NX-OS, Meraki, Palo Alto, Fortinet) rather than 'networking equipment'.
04
Quantify reliability wins: uptime improved, outage minutes reduced, failover designs that worked when tested.
05
Include automation and cloud networking experience — it distinguishes you from config-only candidates.
06
Where this role goes
Typical progression
01
Network Technician
02
Network Engineer
03
Senior Network Engineer
04
Network Architect
Ten quiet minutes a day
Applying for network engineer jobs in Sacramento?
Robbi carries this page into your first day: your role, your city, your shift preference. Then it hands you a few small things each morning and keeps the pipeline honest.
Save what looks right here, then let Robbi hand you a few small things each morning and keep the follow-ups honest.
Start with this search
No email, no resume, no sign-up.
Open your tracker
Everything you saved is already there.