Onsite Network Engineer – DoD/DOE TS Clearance

Zachary Piper Solutions; Amarillo, Northern (TX, KY); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to support a secure DOE/DoD environment. This fully onsite role in Amarillo, TX requires an active Top Secret/DOE Q clearance and focuses on maintaining enterprise network availability, routing, switching, and secure access services.

Responsibilities include incident resolution, lifecycle management, performance optimization, and documenting changes in ServiceNow; compensation ranges from $130,000 to $170,000 with comprehensive

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 5+ years of experience, Master’s with 2+ years, or 10+ years of combined relevant education/training/experience in lieu of a degree.
• 5+ years of relevant networking experience, including Cisco enterprise routing and switching.
• Experience supporting secure, highly available enterprise network environments.
• Strong network troubleshooting, operations, and infrastructure management experience.
• Ability and willingness to work fully onsite in Amarillo, TX
• Active DoD Top Secret w/ eligibility for DOE Q, or currently active DOE Q security clearance
• Desired: Cisco ISE, Catalyst/DNA Center, Tenable, Splunk, LTM/GTM load balancers, and DNS/DHCP/IPAM administration.

Responsibilities

• Maintain 99.9% availability of core network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and data center fabrics, while resolving network incidents and service outages within established SLAs.
• Develop and execute network lifecycle, upgrade, patching, and rollback plans to support infrastructure stability and availability.
• Monitor network devices, support NOC/SOC onboarding and telemetry reporting, and provide recommendations for performance optimization, capacity planning, and remediation.
• Support Cisco ISE authentication, authorization, access control services, Network Access Devices, and identity groups.
• Administer wireless LAN infrastructure, access point deployments, and VoIP services, including moves, adds, changes, and deletions.
• Manage load balancers, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM environments supporting enterprise network operations.
• Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, inventories, and change records while managing RFCs through ServiceNow and established CAB processes.

Skills

Cisco routing & switching

Network troubleshooting

Enterprise network operations

NOC/SOC onboarding

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

10+ years experience in lieu of degree

Tools

Cisco ISE

DNA Center

Tenable

Splunk

LTM/GTM load balancers

DNS/DHCP/IPAM

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to support a secure DOE/DoD environment. This fully onsite role in Amarillo, TX requires an active Top Secret/DOE Q clearance and focuses on maintaining enterprise network availability, routing, switching, and secure access services.

Responsibilities include incident resolution, lifecycle management, performance optimization, and documenting changes in ServiceNow; compensation ranges from $130,000 to $170,000 with comprehensive