Senior DoD Network Engineer - Navy Enterprise (Onsite)

ZP Group; Pearl City (HI); On-site; USD 105,000 - 115,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical

Dental

Vision

401k Plan

Holidays

PTO

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Network Engineer to support a long-term Navy DoD program at Pearl Harbor, HI. The role focuses on enterprise network infrastructure, routing, switching, security, and modernization across a large geographically dispersed environment.

The engineer will provide Tier III escalation, work on BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, SD-WAN, and VPNs, while adhering to DISA STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor’s degree, or 6–10 years with a Master’s degree; equivalent experience may be considered
• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise network engineering, configuration, and troubleshooting
• Strong routing and switching experience, including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, and related protocols
• Demonstrated Tier III escalation experience supporting complex network environments
• Experience supporting large-scale, geographically dispersed enterprise networks
• Hands-on experience with LAN/WAN/WLAN, network boundaries, firewalls, VPNs, SD-WAN, or MPLS
• Strong understanding of network security and defense-in-depth
• Experience with DISA STIGs and DoD network security requirements
• Preferred: experience with network automation, Arista, Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise network infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, wireless, VLANs, VPNs
• Provide Tier III escalation support for complex network issues, outages, and performance problems
• Troubleshoot routing and switching technologies including BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, multicast, SD-WAN, MPLS, and VPNs
• Support LAN/WAN/WLAN and network boundary engineering across a large, geographically dispersed enterprise environment
• Apply network security and defense-in-depth principles while maintaining compliance with DISA STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements
• Perform root cause analysis and develop solutions for complex and recurring network issues
• Plan, test, document, and implement network changes, upgrades, firmware updates, and security patches
• Conduct lab and pre-production testing to validate network functionality, security, performance, and deployment procedures
• Maintain network configurations, baselines, technical documentation, and change records
• Collaborate with engineering, operations, cybersecurity, vendors, and customer teams on network operations, architecture, and modernization efforts
• Participate in Agile/SAFe processes, JIRA tracking, technical meetings, and an on-call rotation

Skills

Enterprise networking

Tier III support

Routing & switching

BGP

OSPF

EIGRP

VPNs

LAN/WAN/WLAN

Network security

DISA STIGs

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree; equivalent experience

Tools

JIRA

SAFe

Ansible

Python

Arista

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking a Network Engineer to support a long-term Navy DoD program at Pearl Harbor, HI. The role focuses on enterprise network infrastructure, routing, switching, security, and modernization across a large geographically dispersed environment.

The engineer will provide Tier III escalation, work on BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, SD-WAN, and VPNs, while adhering to DISA STIGs and DoD cybersecurity requirements.