Senior Network Engineer - Enterprise SDN & Wireless

Prince William County; Virginia (MN); Hybrid; USD 91,000 - 137,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Retirement from the Virginia System (V

401a and 457 retirement plans

Paid Annual Leave

Paid Personal Leave

Paid Sick Leave

Paid Holidays

Optional Medical/Dental Plans

Optional Life Insurance

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Career Development Opportunities

Job summary

Prince William County Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, operate, and modernize a large enterprise network serving public safety, courts, libraries, schools, and county facilities across 100 locations in Northern Virginia.

You will lead SDA fabric deployments, manage Cisco Catalyst Center, implement resilient routing with OSPF/BGP, and mentor junior engineers while supporting after-hours maintenance and telework flexibility.

Qualifications

• 7 years of professional experience designing, implementing, and supporting large-scale enterprise network infrastructure.
• Experience with Cisco SDA and Catalyst Center.
• Experience with OSPF, BGP, route redistribution, and enterprise routing.
• Experience with Cisco Catalyst enterprise switching.
• Experience with Juniper Junos switching.
• 5 years of experience with SolarWinds, ThousandEyes, and/or Riverbed NetIM Network Performance Monitoring.
• 5 years of experience with Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (IPAM).
• 5 years of experience with Dark Fiber infrastructure and optical transport.
• 3 years of experience with Cisco Software Defined Access (SDA) and Cisco Catalyst Center.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Cisco SDA fabrics across enterprise locations.
• Engineer and administer Cisco Catalyst Center for network automation, assurance, provisioning, software lifecycle management, and policy-based networking.
• Configure and troubleshoot OSPF, BGP, route redistribution, and enterprise routing across Cisco and Juniper platforms.
• Administer Juniper routers running Junos supporting network and WAN connectivity.
• Design, deploy, and maintain enterprise wireless infrastructure utilizing Cisco 5520 WLCs, Catalyst 9800 embedded Wireless Controllers, and SDA Fabric Wireless.
• Support IEEE 802.1X network authentication utilizing Cisco ISE.
• Engineer and maintain Infoblox DNS, DHCP, and IPAM services.
• Manage a large dark fiber infrastructure and Metro-Ethernet WAN services connecting County facilities and regional data centers.
• Utilize Cisco ThousandEyes, SolarWinds, and Riverbed NetIM to monitor network health and perform root cause analysis.
• Lead network modernization projects, technology refreshes, and infrastructure migrations with minimal impact to County operations.
• Participate in after-hours maintenance windows supporting critical infrastructure upgrades.
• Provide Tier 3/Tier 4 engineering support and mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Networking design

Cisco SDA

OSPF

BGP

Juniper Junos

Automation

Wireless networking

Network monitoring

DNS/DHCP/IPAM

Project leadership

Tools

Cisco SDA Fabric

Catalyst Center

Riverbed NetIM

SolarWinds

Infoblox

Catalyst 9800 / WLC

Cisco ISE

Job description

Prince William County Department of Information Technology seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, operate, and modernize a large enterprise network serving public safety, courts, libraries, schools, and county facilities across 100 locations in Northern Virginia.

You will lead SDA fabric deployments, manage Cisco Catalyst Center, implement resilient routing with OSPF/BGP, and mentor junior engineers while supporting after-hours maintenance and telework flexibility.