Senior Network Engineer - Datacenter & Multi-Site

TEKsystems; Knoxville (TN); Hybrid; USD 61,000 - 69,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental & vision

401(k) Retirement Plan – Pre-tax and R

Life Insurance

Disability insurance

Health Spending Account (HSA)

Transportation benefits

PTO / Time Off

Job summary

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain a large-scale enterprise network across multiple campuses in East Tennessee. This contract-to-hire role emphasizes datacenter routing, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and hands-on CLI work with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper environments.

You will join a growing team of ~25 as the company rebuilds its network architecture, taking ownership and delivering high-quality results with minimal supervision.

Qualifications

• Associate's degree or equivalent; 4+ years direct network engineering experience; intermediate knowledge of WAN/LAN, DNS/DHCP, Layer 2/3, TCP/IP, Wi-Fi, firewalls, ACLs; strong verbal and written communication; Microsoft Azure networking services knowledge; must be authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship now or in the future.
• CCNA, CCNP, ACMA, ACMP, AZ-500, AZ-900, Security+
• Automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, GitLab); network monitoring tools (SolarWinds, Wireshark, Ekahau, Nmap, netflow, packet capture); hybrid cloud experience; Linux and FreeRADIUS basics; cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Oracle Cloud).

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise network infrastructure (routers, switches, firewalls, VPCs, wireless).
• Tier 2/3 troubleshooting and monitoring network telemetry.
• Manage project lifecycles from discovery through closure; maintain technical documentation.
• Participate in an on-call rotation (perm only; contractors are not on-call).

Job description

TEKsystems is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, deploy, and maintain a large-scale enterprise network across multiple campuses in East Tennessee. This contract-to-hire role emphasizes datacenter routing, BGP, EVPN, VXLAN, and hands-on CLI work with Cisco, Arista, and Juniper environments.

You will join a growing team of ~25 as the company rebuilds its network architecture, taking ownership and delivering high-quality results with minimal supervision.