Senior Network Architect & Lead — Enterprise Infra & Security

Contact Government Services, LLC; Washington; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health, Dental, and Vision

Life Insurance

401k

Flexible Spending Account (Health, Dep

endent Care, and Commuter

Paid Time Off and Holidays

Job summary

Contact Government Services, LLC seeks a Senior Lead Network Engineer to evaluate, enhance, and maintain a large-scale wired and wireless network infrastructure for the NPS environment. The role interfaces with state/local personnel, stakeholders, and vendors to design, test, and implement network solutions.

The position emphasizes disaster recovery, vulnerability assessment, and proactive security updates, with opportunities for professional growth in an environment focused on government

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited college or university in Engineering, Computer Science, Business, Information systems or a related discipline.
• Strong documentation skills including updating JIRA Tickets, Wiki Pages and Network Diagrams.
• CWNA Certification or equivalent
• BCNE Certification or equivalent
• Experience with RF site survey tools such as Ekahau, RF Scanners and Wireshark
• Strong knowledge of layer 2 switching and layer 3 routing protocols including VLANs, 802.1w, OSPF and VRRP
• Strong knowledge of network security including 802.1x, MAC Authentication, ACLs, RADIUS and CA
• Working knowledge of Agile/Scrum project management methodologies
• At least 3 years experience with disaster recovery plan creation / implementation testing

Responsibilities

• Operate and manage NPS network infrastructure.
• Improve infrastructure monitoring and reporting using network management software.
• Develop, maintain and deliver infrastructure documentation relating to the network infrastructure within the NPS environment.
• Review current best practices and provide recommendations for architecture, design, management and operation of the network infrastructure.
• Administration of Cloudpath onboarding, monitoring and troubleshooting of wireless network health, applying security patches and updates.
• Assess the NPS network infrastructure and make recommendations on improvement and optimization.
• Define and conduct testing procedures for new infrastructure projects.
• Implement technology solutions within the NPS network environment.
• Provide design guidance on network solutions within NPS projects.
• Provide informal training and knowledge transfer to NPS resources on best practices.

Skills

NPS network infrastructure

Network monitoring

Documentation

VLANs & routing

Network security

Linux/Windows/VMware

Penetration testing/Vulnerability

Agile/Scrum

RF site survey tools

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering/CS/Information Systems

Master’s Degree in Engineering/CS/Information Systems

Tools

Ekahau

Wireshark

JIRA

VMware

Job description

Contact Government Services, LLC seeks a Senior Lead Network Engineer to evaluate, enhance, and maintain a large-scale wired and wireless network infrastructure for the NPS environment. The role interfaces with state/local personnel, stakeholders, and vendors to design, test, and implement network solutions.

The position emphasizes disaster recovery, vulnerability assessment, and proactive security updates, with opportunities for professional growth in an environment focused on government