Senior Network Engineer

DataStaff, Inc.; Mechanicsville (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive benefits package

Medical, dental & vision coverage

401k after 6 months

Job summary

DataStaff, Inc. is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for a long-term contract in Mechanicsville, VA. This on-site role focuses on implementing and supporting the client’s IT network infrastructure, with emphasis on documentation and reliability.

The ideal candidate has extensive hands-on experience with enterprise routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, and wireless access points, plus strong network design and fault-tolerant architectures. Cloud networking exposure is a plus.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points.
• 8+ years of hands-on work configuring routers/switches and WAPs.
• 8+ years of designing, installing and troubleshooting LAN/WAN networks.

Responsibilities

• Implement and support the client’s IT network infrastructure.
• Document network designs and configurations for reliability and compliance.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Routers & switches

Firewall & VPN

Wireless APs

Network design

Network monitoring

Visio diagrams

IPsec & QoS

BGP/OSPF/EIGRP

Job description

DataStaff, Inc is in need of a Senior Network Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity for one of our direct clients in Mechanicsville, VA.

*This position is onsite

Our client is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency’s IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support and documentation of our client’s network infrastructure.

Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.

Required Skills:

• 8 years - Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points.
• 8 years - Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS.
• 8 years - Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• 8 years - Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
• 8 years - In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• 8 years - Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
• 8 years - Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
• 8 years - Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• 8 years - Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
• 8 years - Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc

Desired Skills:

• 3 years - Experience working with SDWAN
• 3 years - Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
• 3 years - Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking

This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.