Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer
Location: Mechanicsville, VA( 5 days onsite/week)
Duration: 8+ months Contract (Possible extension)
Interview mode: Both Web Cam and In Person Interview

Position Description:
Job Overview:
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 client's Network related infrastructure.
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.)

Required Skills & Qualifications:

• Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
• Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
• Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
• In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
• Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
• Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
• Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, MPLS
• Experience working with SDWAN
• Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
• Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking