IDC Network Engineer

Akkodis; Tacoma (WA); On-site; USD 83,000 - 96,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

401K plan

Paid leave

Job summary

Akkodis is seeking a Network Engineer for a contract to hire position onsite in Ashburn, Virginia. The role focuses on configuring, troubleshooting, maintaining, and supporting enterprise routing and switching infrastructure within an on-site data center environment.

The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience with BGP/OSPF, VLANs, and robust network monitoring, with the ability to work on complex production networks and participate in on-call schedules.

Qualifications

• Hands-on routing and switching experience in enterprise, service-provider, government, or similarly complex production networks.
• Demonstrated experience configuring, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production routers and switches.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4, VLANs, routing, BGP/OSPF, and network design concepts.

Responsibilities

• Configure, implement, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise routers and switches in a production IDC environment.
• Perform Layer 2 and Layer 3 administration tasks including VLANs, IP addressing, static and dynamic routing, and troubleshooting.
• Analyze and resolve routing, switching, and performance issues; use diagnostic tools across network layers.
• Develop and execute pre-change checks, implementation steps, rollback procedures, and post-change validation.
• Support network moves, changes, upgrades, migrations, and hardware refreshes.

Skills

Hands-on routing and switching

TCP/IP

BGP and OSPF

Network monitoring

On-site operations

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/EE

Tools

DCIM platform

Cisco IOS

Job description

Akkodis is seeking a Network Engineer for a contract to hire position onsite in Ashburn, Virginia (Washington, DC – Baltimore area).This role is responsible for the hands-on configuration, implementation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and lifecycle support of enterprise routing and switching infrastructure within an onsite Internet Data Center environment. This position focuses on maintaining reliable Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, implementing network changes, resolving complex incidents, supporting upgrades and migrations, and managing production routers, switches, routing protocols, VLANs, trunks, circuits, and related network services.

Pay Range: $60.00 to $70.00 per hour on W2; The rate may be negotiable based on experience, education, geographic location, and other factors.

Network Engineer job responsibilities include:

• Configure, implement, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise routers and switches in a production IDC (Internet Data Center) environment.
• Perform hands-on Layer 2 administration, including: VLAN creation and modification, access and trunk port configuration, switch-port activation and validation, Spanning-tree and loop-prevention troubleshooting, link aggregation and redundant-link support, Interface, transceiver, and physical-connectivity troubleshooting.
• Perform hands-on Layer 3 administration, including: IP addressing and subnet implementation, static and dynamic routing, BGP and OSPF configuration and troubleshooting, route-policy, redistribution, and path-selection troubleshooting, gateway, adjacency, reachability, and failover validation, VRF and network-segmentation support, where applicable.
• Analyze and resolve routing, switching, packet-loss, latency, reachability, convergence, interface, and circuit-related problems.
• Use command-line, monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tools to isolate faults across physical, data-link, network, and transport layers.
• Review existing configurations, identify operational risks or inconsistencies, and recommend practical corrective actions.
• Develop and execute pre-change checks, implementation steps, rollback procedures, and post-change validation.
• Support network moves, adds, changes, migrations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, and decommissioning activities.
• Install and validate software or firmware upgrades in accordance with approved change-management procedures.
• Monitor network availability, utilization, error conditions, and performance trends; proactively address conditions that could affect service.
• Support redundancy, resiliency, and failover testing for network paths and critical connectivity.
• Maintain current network diagrams, configuration records, interface assignments, IP-addressing information, and as-built documentation.

Qualifications:

• Hands-on routing and switching experience in enterprise, service-provider, government, or similarly complex production networks.
• Demonstrated experience independently configuring, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production routers and switches.
• Strong knowledge of: TCP/IP and IPv4 networking, Layer 2 switching, VLANs, trunking, and redundancy, Layer 3 routing and route selection, BGP and OSPF, Network segmentation and resilient network design, and Network monitoring and diagnostic techniques
• Experience planning and executing production network changes, maintenance activities, upgrades, migrations, and cutovers.
• Experience troubleshooting complex connectivity and performance issues across network devices, carrier circuits, and physical infrastructure.
• At least three contiguous years of hands-on experience working in an IDC or comparable data‑center environment.
• Practical experience with data‑center physical infrastructure, including equipment installation, rack‑level work, fiber and copper cabling, patch panels, transceivers, and cross‑connects.
• Working experience with a DCIM platform, including validating and maintaining equipment, rack, port, cable, or asset records.
• Experience with incident, problem, and change‑management processes and associated ticket documentation.
• Ability to produce accurate network diagrams, configuration records, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and as‑built documentation.
• Must be eligible to obtain a Top‑Secret Security Clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI).
• Ability and willingness to work onsite Monday through Friday in Ashburn, Virginia for the duration of the engagement.
• Ability to support scheduled evening, overnight, or weekend maintenance and participate in an on‑call rotation when required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• Relevant professional experience may substitute for the desired degree.
• Current or prior professional‑level networking certification, including: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP Enterprise), Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE Enterprise Infrastructure), Certified Data Center Design Professional (CDCDP), Comparable advanced routing, switching, or data‑center certification
• Cisco routing and switching experience, particularly in enterprise or data‑center environments.
• Experience with data‑center switching platforms, carrier circuits, data‑center interconnects, out‑of‑band management, and redundant network architectures.
• Experience coordinating with telecommunications carriers, colocation providers, cabling vendors, and network‑equipment manufacturers.
• Familiarity with firewalls, VPNs, access‑control lists, network‑management platforms, and data‑center security controls.
• Experience supporting network refreshes, migrations, circuit turn‑ups, failover exercises, and infrastructure modernization.

Benefit offerings available for our associates include medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short‑term disability, additional voluntary benefits, EAP program, commuter benefits and a 401K plan. Our benefit offerings provide employees the flexibility to choose the type of coverage that meets their individual needs. In addition, our associates may be eligible for paid leave including Paid Sick Leave or any other paid leave required by Federal, State, or local law, as well as Holiday pay where applicable.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled

Military connected talent encouraged to apply

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