Senior Network Engineer

Siennasystems; Ashburn (VA); Hybrid; USD 138,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) plan

Paid Time Off

Federal holidays

Disability coverage

Life Insurance

Signing bonus

Referral program

Job summary

Sienna Systems is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for the DHS CBP ENAESS program in Ashburn, VA. You will own the design and deployment of Cisco ACI fabrics, F5 load balancing, and security-enabled data center integration, with travel to field locations.

Role emphasizes migration and colocation work, not steady-state ticketing, in a government program with long runway and solid benefits. Hybrid work from Ashburn.

Qualifications

• US citizenship and ability to pass five-year CBP background investigation.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, design, test, and implement network solutions across on-premises and cloud environments.
• Own and extend the Cisco ACI fabric.
• Design, implement, and tune load balancing with F5 LTM/GTM.
• Lead colocation, data center migration, and equipment relocation activities.
• Develop design documents and drive through peer review and security approval before implementation.
• Coordinate changes and follow change management procedures.
• Test networking hardware/software and patch as needed.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation support for outages and remediation.
• Collaborate with security and operations on monitoring and traffic visibility.

Skills

ACI Fabric

F5 LTM/GTM

Cisco Firepower

NetScout/IXIA

DMZ Architecture

Security & Change Mgmt

Travel readiness

Education

10+ years experience with Bachelor's

14+ years experience without degree

Tools

Cisco Routing & Switching

Cisco ACI Fabric

F5 Local Traffic Manager

F5 Global Traffic Manager

NetScout

IXIA

Job description

ACI fabric, F5 pairs, and a data center that has to move without anyone noticing.

Sienna Systems is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our U.S. Customs and Border Protection Enterprise Network Architecture & Engineering Services Support (ENAESS) team, in Ashburn, Virginia.

This is the senior technical seat on the data center side: Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure fabric, F5 load balancing, Firepower firewalls, NetScout and IXIA instrumentation, and the circuits and DMZ architecture tying it together. You will own design decisions, not execute someone else's, and there is active migration and colocation work in front of the team.

Hybrid out of Ashburn with approximately 35% travel to data center and field locations.

Why You'll Want This Role:

• $137,500 – $142,500 based on experience
• $10,000 signing bonus for candidates with an active CBP background investigation, payable after 60 days
• Design authority over an ACI fabric at federal scale
• Migration and colocation work rather than a steady-state ticket queue
• Established DHS program with a long runway and a stable government customer
• 401(k) with 4% matching, immediate vesting, no restrictions
• 3 weeks Paid Time Off plus 11 Federal Holidays
• Hybrid out of Ashburn, Virginia

Key Responsibilities:

• Engineer, design, test, and implement network solutions across on-premises and cloud environments to meet functional and technical requirements.
• Own and extend the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure fabric.
• Design, implement, and tune load balancing across F5 Local Traffic Manager and Global Traffic Manager.
• Lead colocation implementation, data center migration, and equipment relocation activities.
• Develop design documentation — system design documents, topology diagrams, configurations — and drive it through peer review and security approval before implementation.
• Coordinate change requests with stakeholders and follow change management procedures to minimize operational impact.
• Conduct testing of networking hardware, software, configurations, and tools; remediate bugs and vulnerabilities; validate clean integration.
• Manage software and firmware upgrades and patching, automating where possible and scheduling to minimize disruption.
• Provide Tier 3 escalation support for network and mission-critical application outages, including corrective action planning and write-ups.
• Partner with security and operations teams on monitoring, network taps, and traffic visibility.

Required Qualifications:

• US citizenship, and the ability to pass a five-year CBP background investigation (SF-85P, Public Trust). Work cannot begin until the investigation is adjudicated.
• 10 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree, or 14 years without a degree
• Production experience with Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) fabric
• Production experience with Cisco routing and switching and Cisco Firepower firewalls
• Hands-on F5 LTM and/or GTM load balancing
• Working knowledge of DMZ architecture, circuit provisioning, and enterprise network security appliances
• Strong understanding of network security principles, resiliency, availability, and interoperability
• Ability to produce design documentation to a standard that survives peer and security review
• Willingness to travel approximately 35%

Preferred Qualifications:

• Data center move or relocation experience
• A favorable CBP background investigation or DHS High Risk background investigation within the past 4 years
• CCNP or CCIE
• NetScout performance appliances and IXIA network taps
• Software Defined Networking and SD-WAN
• Meraki wireless and NTP infrastructure
• Prior federal or DHS/CBP program experience

Salary: $137,500 – $142,500 based on experience

Job location: Ashburn, Virginia (hybrid) – approximately 35% travel

Company Benefits:

• Medical/dental/vision insurance
• 401(k) plan: 4% matching, immediate vesting, no restrictions
• 3 weeks Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Federal Holidays
• Long- and short-term Disability coverage
• Company-sponsored Life Insurance coverage
• $10,000 signing bonus for candidates with an active CBP BI (payable after 90 days)
• Hiring Referral Bonus

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