Hybrid Cisco Network Engineer—SD-WAN & Security

Eliassen Group; Charlotte (NC); Hybrid; Confidential; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k matching

Life insurance

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Cisco Network Engineer to implement, modernize, and manage critical network infrastructure across the Midwest region. The role focuses on Cisco enterprise routing, switching, SD-WAN, wireless, and network security supporting substations, corporate offices, and other business-critical locations.

The engineer will implement, test, troubleshoot, and document reliable network solutions in a large, process-driven environment and will work both independently and within an Agile

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on enterprise networking experience.
• Configure/implement Cisco routers and switches.
• Experience with OSPF, BGP, and WAN concepts.
• Experience with network documentation and diagrams.
• Willingness to work on a W2 basis with benefits.

Responsibilities

• Configure, implement, test, and support Cisco routers, switches, wireless APs, and related network infrastructure using established standards and templates.
• Deploy Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN including WAN edge, transport connectivity, segmentation, centralized policies, and application-aware routing.
• Support WAN modernization across SD-WAN, MPLS, private Ethernet, internet, cellular, and other WAN services.
• Troubleshoot routing, switching, SD-WAN, wireless, WAN connectivity, firewall policy, and Layer 2/Layer 3 issues.
• Implement and validate resiliency, segmentation, failover, QoS, and high availability.
• Prepare engineering job packages with equipment lists, installation instructions, implementation and test plans, rollback procedures, and documentation.
• Create and maintain physical and logical network drawings, rack elevations, wiring diagrams, layouts, and power drawings in Visio.
• Ensure monitoring, alarming, logging, asset records, and operational documentation are complete before production cutover.
• Coordinate, activate, test, and troubleshoot private and public WAN circuits.
• Monitor implementation work for compliance with engineering standards, cybersecurity requirements, regulations, and procedures.
• Support network automation using Python, Ansible, REST APIs, Git, or comparable tooling.
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, field resources, carriers, vendors, and business partners.
• Follow formal change management practices including impact analysis, peer review, approvals, validation, rollback planning, and documentation.
• Participate in planned implementations, maintenance, and troubleshooting outside normal business hours as required.
• Work within an Agile engineering environment on team-based projects.

Skills

Cisco routing

Cisco switching

IPv4 subnetting

OSPF/BGP

WAN concepts

L2/L3 troubleshooting

Network diagrams

Cybersecurity

Change management

Agile / Jira

Teamwork

Documentation

Education

High school diploma or GED

Tools

Cisco IOS/IOS-XE

Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN (Viptela)

Palo Alto Firewall

Jira

Git

PowerShell

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Cisco Network Engineer to implement, modernize, and manage critical network infrastructure across the Midwest region. The role focuses on Cisco enterprise routing, switching, SD-WAN, wireless, and network security supporting substations, corporate offices, and other business-critical locations.

The engineer will implement, test, troubleshoot, and document reliable network solutions in a large, process-driven environment and will work both independently and within an Agile