Senior Network Engineer

Escambia County Board of County Commissioners; Town of Florida (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Escambia County Board of County Commissioners seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain the county's network infrastructure on-site in Escambia County, FL. You will lead a team, configure routers, switches, firewalls, and VPNs, monitor performance, and address complex connectivity issues.

The role emphasizes planning upgrades, ensuring high availability, and collaborating with IT staff to support multiple departments while enforcing security policies and contributing to

Qualifications

• Strong network engineering and design skills for multi-site infrastructures.
• Experience configuring and managing routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and wireless solutions.
• Advanced troubleshooting to diagnose and resolve performance and hardware issues.

Responsibilities

• Plan and implement complex, multi-site network infrastructures.
• Upgrade networks to ensure high availability and scalability.
• Collaborate with IT staff and stakeholders to support departmental needs.
• Develop and enforce network security policies; participate in incident response and disaster recovery planning.

Skills

Network design

Network administration

Troubleshooting

Network security

Enterprise networking technologies

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/CS

Job description

Company Description The Escambia County Board of County Commissioners is the elected governing body for Escambia County, providing leadership and oversight for a wide range of public services and infrastructure under a professional Chief Administrative Officer. Escambia County offers professionals the opportunity to contribute to essential community services in a complex, mission-driven public sector environment.
Role Description The Senior Network Engineer is a full-time, on-site role based in Escambia County, FL, responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining the county’s network infrastructure to support reliable and resilient operations across multiple departments. Functioning as a team lead with day-to-day responsibilities include configuring and managing routers, switches, firewalls, and related hardware; monitoring network performance; VOIP, and resolving complex connectivity and performance issues. The role involves planning and executing network upgrades, ensuring high availability and scalability, and collaborating with Information & Technology staff and other stakeholders to support departmental needs. The Senior Network Engineer also helps develop and enforce network security policies, participates in incident response and disaster recovery planning, and documents network architecture, standards, and procedures. Reports to the IT Infrastructure Manager.
Qualifications

• Strong Network Engineering and Network Design skills, with experience planning, implementing, and optimizing complex, multi-site network infrastructures.
• Demonstrated Network Administration expertise, including configuration and management of switches, routers, firewalls, VPNs, and wireless solutions.
• Advanced Troubleshooting capabilities to diagnose and resolve network performance, connectivity, and hardware issues in a timely manner.
• Solid Network Security skills, including implementing security controls, monitoring for threats, and supporting incident response and remediation.
• Experience with enterprise networking technologies (e.g., VLANs, QoS, routing protocols, SD-WAN), and familiarity with monitoring and management tools.
• Relevant professional certifications (such as CCNP, CompTIA Network+, or equivalent) are highly desirable.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Ability to work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, prioritize multiple initiatives, and support a public-sector, service-oriented environment.