Senior Network Engineer

Pueo Business Solutions LLC; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Pueo Business Solutions LLC is seeking a highly experienced Network Engineer to join a fast-paced, mission-critical program at a central location with no travel requirements.

The role emphasizes complex problem analysis, performance optimization, and security solution design, including routing, firewall contexts, and WAN acceleration, with leadership responsibilities for junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 12–15 years of experience as a Network Engineer or related skill set.
• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline from an accredited college or university.
• CCNA and CCNP certifications required or equivalent.
• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph clearance.

Responsibilities

• Conduct complex network problem analysis; resolve complex network and telecommunications problems.
• Research, recommend, and evaluate network performance, optimization, and security solutions.
• Design and verify network solutions to support routing, security, QoS, and WAN optimization.
• Provide guidance and leadership to Level 0-2 network engineers.
• Verify and validate activities of junior engineers, ensuring approved methods are followed.

Skills

Palo Alto experience

Network problem analysis

Network optimization

Security solutions

Education

Bachelor's degree in technical discipline

Tools

CCNA

CCNP

Job description

Description

Pueo is known for bringing the best talent and unique tools to every opportunity. Pueo's Parliament (aka workforce) is composed of professionals who are seeking the opportunity to work in a business organization that thrives on career development and independence. In support of mission and professional growth, our Parliament has supported the development of multiple patents, proprietary tools, and applications as well as trademarked processes.

Job Type

Full-time

Description

Pueo is known for bringing the best talent and unique tools to every opportunity. Pueo's Parliament (aka workforce) is composed of professionals who are seeking the opportunity to work in a business organization that thrives on career development and independence. In support of mission and professional growth, our Parliament has supported the development of multiple patents, proprietary tools, and applications as well as trademarked processes.

Our organization emphasizes career development across multiple career environments (at the members own pace) and ensures those who contribute broadly are properly rewarded. Pueo has four career environments where every member of the parliament can participate. Each environment has opportunities available for all levels. Opportunities are framed by an employee's desires and capabilities, and we ensure challenges, growth, and unique experiences are available for employees at all levels.

Our Career Environments (Program, Functional, Service, and Leadership) provide numerous opportunities for employees to invest in their personal growth and those things that offer fulfillment. We invest in helping our members create and execute their career development plans.

Our Pods (small teams of 5 or less) are comprised of personnel with similar skillsets to ensure mentorship, understanding, and peer support.

Overview

As part of this highly visible and fast-paced contract you’ll work on a small team that maintains multiple system security plans in a unique and lively customer-focused environment. The successful candidate will be part of a team that provides support to multiple organizations from a central location, with no travel requirements. This is an exciting position that supports a mission critical program with high visibility and a proven track record of success.

General Duties

• Conduct complex network problem analysis; resolve complex network and telecommunications problems.
• Research, recommend, and evaluate network performance, optimization, and security solutions.
• Palo Alto experience
• Optimize end-to-end network system performance and traffic flow management.
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through problem analysis and use of network performance analytic tools.
• Assist system engineers and cross-organizational teams to formulate solutions in response to mission requirements.
• Design and verify network solutions to support requirements for routing protocols, policy-based routing, traffic shaping, border gateway protocols, tunneling IP Security, network address translations, network security, firewall contexts, load-balancing, latency, data throughput, WAN acceleration, and monitoring.
• Introduce and integrate new network and telecommunications technologies.
• Provide guidance and leadership to Level 0-2 network engineers.
• Verify and validate activities of Level 0-2 network engineers, ensure approved methods and procedures are followed.

Required Qualifications

• Twelve (12) to fifteen (15) years’ experience as a Network Engineer or related skill set. Bachelor’s degree in technical discipline from an accredited college or university. Five (5) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Certification Requirement: CCNA and CCNP

Clearance

• Active TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph required

Pueo is an equal employment opportunity employer and affirmative action employer. All interested individuals will receive consideration and will not be discriminated against on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, or protected veteran status. Pueo takes affirmative action in support of its policy to advance diversity and inclusion of individuals who are minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities.