Network Engineer

ZealHire Inc.; Mechanicsville (VA); Hybrid; USD 96,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

ZealHire Inc. seeks an experienced Senior Network Engineer to implement and support the agency's IT network infrastructure on-site in Mechanicsville, VA.

The role involves day-to-day operations, documentation, analysis, and deployment across enterprise networks. The candidate should have hands-on expertise with routers, switches, VPNs, firewalls, and load balancers, plus experience in SDWAN and cloud networking.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPNs, firewalls, APs, and load balancers.
• Design, install and troubleshoot local- and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Experience engineering and design in the networking field.
• Experience monitoring IT environments for security policy compliance.
• Experience creating scalable, fault-tolerant network architectures.
• Experience creating network diagrams with Visio or equivalent.
• Knowledge of ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, QoS, IPsec, SNMP, MPLS.

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day network support and documentation for client infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot network issues and document resolutions.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to gather requirements and configurations.
• Assist in installation, documentation, and upgrades of facility data networks.
• Coordinate with cloud and DevSecOps teams for hybrid connectivity and SDWAN tuning.
• Provide topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls as needed.
• Work independently on assigned networking projects.
• Maintain up-to-date network documentation and diagrams.

Skills

Enterprise Networking

VPN

Firewall

Network Design

Documentation

CCNA/CCNP

SDWAN

Cloud Networking

Job description

Location

Mechanicsville, VA (Onsite) (Local candidates)

Duration

12 Months Contract

In-Person Interview

No H1b, Cpt, opt

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Description

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 and documentation of clients Network infrastructure.

Job Overview

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 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

Required

• 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.
• 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

Preferred

• Experience working with SDWAN
• Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
• Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking

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