Lead Network Engineer, Enterprise & Cloud (Tier 4)

Koniag Government Services; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401K with company matching

Flexible spending accounts

Paid holidays

3 weeks PTO

Job summary

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Network Engineer Lead to drive Tier 4 network engineering across enterprise environments in Washington, DC. The role demands senior technical leadership for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid integrations, with strong collaboration across multiple teams.

Responsibilities include leading SD-WAN design, maintaining network documentation, and mentoring staff while ensuring secure, scalable connectivity and ITIL-aligned change management

Qualifications

• 8–10 years hands-on enterprise network engineering experience.
• Experience in Federal or private-sector enterprise environments of comparable scale, complexity, and security posture.
• Proven leadership of network engineering operations at enterprise scale, including 24x7 environments.
• Experience with complex network change execution across hybrid on-premises and cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Lead Tier 4 network engineering, design, integration, and operations across CLIENT's enterprise environment.
• Manage and optimize LAN/WAN, routing, switching, wireless, SD-WAN, and network security fabric.
• Serve as senior escalation point for complex, cross-domain network incidents and problems.
• Execute complex network changes and integrations per ITIL 4 change management practices.
• Support 24x7 NOC operations through on-call availability and documented escalation procedures.
• Lead SD-WAN design and operational support across distributed enterprise environments.
• Collaborate with infrastructure and platform teams to ensure reliable cloud connectivity and performance.
• Lead and mentor network engineering team members.

Skills

LAN/WAN architecture

Routing protocols

VLANs/STP

SD-WAN

Wireless enterprise networking

Network security fabric

Firewall management

Cloud networking

Zero Trust

ITSM tools

Education

CCIE – Enterprise Infrastructure or Security

CCNP – Enterprise or Security

AWS Certified Advanced Networking – Specialty

Microsoft Azure Network Engineer Associate (AZ-700)

CompTIA Security+

Tools

ServiceNow

NOC monitoring tools

Job description

Koniag IT Systems, LLC, a Koniag Government Services company, seeks a Network Engineer Lead to drive Tier 4 network engineering across enterprise environments in Washington, DC. The role demands senior technical leadership for on-prem, cloud, and hybrid integrations, with strong collaboration across multiple teams.

Responsibilities include leading SD-WAN design, maintaining network documentation, and mentoring staff while ensuring secure, scalable connectivity and ITIL-aligned change management