Senior Network Engineer – Cloud, Resilience & Security

Talentify; National Harbor (MD); On-site; USD 75,000 - 158,000; Full time

Job summary

CACI in National Harbor, MD, seeks a Network Engineer to evaluate hosting, network topology, and security for FEMA ITSA 3.0 program. You will assess cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, documenting dependencies to enable modernization and surge readiness.

Responsibilities include analyzing connectivity, routing, firewall configurations, VPNs, and load balancing; ensuring security posture and resilience, and supporting disaster recovery efforts with a focus on scalable, reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering or equivalent.
• 7+ years of network/infrastructure engineering experience across hybrid cloud and on-prem environments.
• Experience with cloud networking in AWS and/or Azure including VPC/VNet design, transit gateways, Direct Connect/ExpressRoute, and cloud-native networking services.
• Experience validating configurations and collaborating with engineering/operations teams.
• Ability to obtain DHS EOD clearance.

Responsibilities

• Evaluate hosting models across the portfolio: cloud (AWS, Azure, hybrid-cloud), on-premises data centers, and colocation environments.
• Assess scalability and capacity headroom for surge operations during disaster response.
• Analyze availability architectures, redundancy configurations, and resiliency patterns.
• Evaluate environment complexity and operational support models; recommend simplification and standardization.
• Document hosting infrastructure dependencies and technical debt that constrains modernization.
• Inventory and document network topologies including LAN/WAN architectures, routing protocols, and network segmentation strategies.
• Assess VPN implementations, firewall configurations, proxy architectures, and perimeter security controls.
• Evaluate load balancing strategies, traffic flow patterns, and network performance optimization.
• Analyze connectivity between FEMA HQ, regional offices, field ops, and external partner systems.
• Identify network bottlenecks, latency issues, and bandwidth constraints affecting mission performance.
• Assess system scalability under steady-state and disaster surge conditions.
• Identify performance bottlenecks that degrade user experience or limit capacity.
• Evaluate availability targets and uptime vs. requirements.
• Analyze resiliency patterns and single points of failure.
• Document latency issues, throughput constraints, and capacity planning gaps.
• Contribute to IAM/MFA enforcement assessments.
• Support privileged access architecture reviews and least-privilege analysis.
• Assess logging and monitoring maturity from infrastructure/network perspective.
• Evaluate security segmentation and zero-trust readiness.
• Document security controls and vulnerability remediation status.

Skills

Network engineering

Routing & switching

Firewall architectures

VPN technologies

Cloud networking AWS/Azure

Disaster recovery

Performance tuning

Technical documentation

Stakeholder communication

EOD clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Engineering

Certifications: AWS/Azure Networking

Tools

AWS

Azure

Cisco

Juniper

Job description

CACI in National Harbor, MD, seeks a Network Engineer to evaluate hosting, network topology, and security for FEMA ITSA 3.0 program. You will assess cloud, on-prem, and hybrid environments, documenting dependencies to enable modernization and surge readiness.

Responsibilities include analyzing connectivity, routing, firewall configurations, VPNs, and load balancing; ensuring security posture and resilience, and supporting disaster recovery efforts with a focus on scalable, reliable