Data Center Networking Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

PGTEK; Chantilly (VA); On-site; USD 158,000 - 205,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision plan

Dental insurance

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Critical Illness insurance

401(k) plan

Pet insurance discount

Employee assistance program

PTO and holidays

Education assistance

Job summary

PGTEK is seeking a Network Administrator to support high-performance data center networking in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on implementing advanced networking technologies and collaborating with engineers to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Expect hands-on work with BGP, ECMP, VXLAN, and Spine-Leaf designs, while advancing toward senior networking expertise. Onsite duties in McLean, VA with potential relocation to Chantilly by year end, and up to 20% travel.

Qualifications

• Familiarity with networking fundamentals such as TCP/IP, routing, switching, VLANs and basic troubleshooting.

Responsibilities

• Assist with documentation, monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting of high-performance data center networking infrastructure.
• Learn and progressively develop expertise with advanced networking technologies including BGP, ECMP, VXLAN, Spine-Leaf architectures, MCLAG, RoCEv2.
• Identify performance trends, capacity constraints, and emerging issues before they impact services or customers.
• Partner with experienced engineers to deploy, optimize, and scale network infrastructure supporting AI and other demanding workloads.
• Investigate network incidents, perform root cause analysis, and drive issues to resolution.
• Participate in network upgrades, implementations, testing, and operational improvement initiatives.
• Contribute to network documentation and procedures.
• Continuously expand technical expertise through learning, mentorship, and training.
• Travel up to 20% to support deployments, installations, maintenance, and operations at sites.

Skills

Troubleshooting

Analytical thinking

Problem-solving

Communication

Job description

PGTEK is seeking a Network Administrator to support high-performance data center networking in a fast-paced environment. The role focuses on implementing advanced networking technologies and collaborating with engineers to ensure scalable, reliable infrastructure.

Expect hands-on work with BGP, ECMP, VXLAN, and Spine-Leaf designs, while advancing toward senior networking expertise. Onsite duties in McLean, VA with potential relocation to Chantilly by year end, and up to 20% travel.