Senior Network Engineer – Contract Position

BranCore Technologies, LLC; Mechanicsville (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

BranCore Technologies, LLC is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to implement and support the agency’s IT Network infrastructure in the Richmond, VA area. This role focuses on documenting, researching, and implementing network-related infrastructure with emphasis on enterprise routers, switches, VPNs, and security appliances.

The candidate must have hands-on experience, a strong networking background, and an industry certification (e.g., CCNA, JNCIA).

Qualifications

• Extensive hands-on experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless APs.
• Experience designing, installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area networks.
• Ability to document network topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls.

Responsibilities

• Configure, upgrade, manage and troubleshoot routers/switches and WAPs.
• Troubleshoot network infrastructure and diagnose system problems with diagnostic tools.
• Collaborate with IT suppliers and stakeholders to gather accurate requirements and configurations.
• Assist in overseeing installation, documentation, and upgrades of data network infrastructure.
• Collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SD-WAN.

Skills

Routers

Switches

VPN

Firewalls

SD-WAN

Network Design

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Cloud Networking

Education

Networking certification (CCNA/JNCIA)

Tools

Visio

Job description

Contract Length: 8 months with the possibility of extending based on project need.
Candidate residing in Richmond, VA area is required.

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 client’s Network infrastructure.

Job Overview:

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, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of client’s 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

Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points. Required, 8 Years

Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS. 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

Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
Required

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, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc. Required, 8 Years

Experience working with SDWAN. Desired, 3 Years

Experience working with network topology related to Cloud. Desired, 3 Years

Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking. Desired, 3 Years