Senior Network Engineer

Intellibee; Mechanicsville (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer to implement and support the agency's IT network infrastructure. The role entails hands-on design, deployment, documentation, and ongoing maintenance of enterprise networks across LAN/WAN environments.

You will document topology, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls while collaborating with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in design, install and troubleshooting of LAN/WAN networks.
• Experience documenting network architecture and configurations.
• Hands-on networking experience across enterprise infrastructure and security.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and support enterprise network infrastructure.
• Document network topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls.
• Collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams on SDWAN and hybrid connectivity.
• Oversee installation, documentation, and upgrades of network infrastructure.
• Maintain knowledge of networking protocols and standards.

Skills

Enterprise routers

Switches

VPN concentrators

Firewalls

Wireless access points

Load balancers

Networking certification

SDWAN

Cloud networking

Visio

Tools

Visio

Job description

Job Overview

VDOT 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 VDOT Network infrastructure.

VDOT 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, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of VDOT Network related infrastructure.

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

Key Responsibilities

• Considerable knowledge and working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to document, set up, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
• Be capable of troubleshooting Network related infrastructure.
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems by using line monitors, diagnostic software, test equipment.
• Works closely with agency's IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather requirements, specifications, and configurations to assure they are accurate and up to date.
• Responsible for assisting in troubleshooting and resolving network issues impacting application performance and uptime.
• Assist in overseeing the installation, documentation, and upgrades of various agency facility data network infrastructure.
• Will oversee and collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.
• Must have minimally obtained an industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Skill
• Amount of Experience
• Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Required
• N/A
• In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, MPLS
• Required
• 8+ Years
• Experience working with SDWAN
• Preferred
• 3+ Years
• Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
• Preferred
• Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking