Senior Network Engineer (Onsite)
Mechanicsville, VA
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Job Title: Senior Network Engineer (Onsite)
Location: Mechanicsville, VA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The Client is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency’s IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of the client Network related infrastructure.
The Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
Skills:
Location: Mechanicsville, VA
Duration: 12 Months
Job Description:
The Client is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency’s IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of the client Network related infrastructure.
The Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Considerable knowledge and working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to document, set up, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
- Be capable of troubleshooting Network related infrastructure.
- Identifies and diagnoses system problems by using line monitors, diagnostic software, test equipment.
- Works closely with agency’s IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather requirements, specifications, and configurations to assure they are accurate and up to date.
- Responsible for assisting in troubleshooting and resolving network issues impacting application performance and uptime.
- Assist in overseeing the installation, documentation, and upgrades of various agency facility data network infrastructure.
- Will oversee and collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
- Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
- Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.
- Must have minimally obtained an industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
Skills:
| Skills | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience |
| Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.) | Required | ||
| In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc. | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc | Required | 8 | Years |
| Experience working with SDWAN | Desired | 3 | Years |
| Experience working with network topology related to Cloud | Desired | 3 | Years |
| Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking | Desired | 3 | Years |
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