Senior Network Engineer, Enterprise WAN/LAN & Cloud

NTT DATA North America; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 117,000 - 195,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Flex spending or health savings

Life and AD&D insurance

Disability coverage

Paid time off

Employee assistance

401k with company match

Job summary

NTT DATA North America in Arlington, Virginia is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to serve as the senior network engineering SME for a government client. The ideal candidate will design, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and sustain large enterprise networks, leading complex WAN/LAN, DNS, wireless, and cloud connectivity initiatives.

This role requires broad enterprise network depth and leadership, collaborating with architects and security teams while mentoring engineers to deliver secure, reliable

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or 15+ years IT network engineering experience required.
• Minimum 10 years of experience in network engineering and design.
• Experience designing and supporting large enterprise WAN and LAN environments.
• Extensive experience with DNS, wireless, routing, switching, and security.
• Active Top Secret clearance with ability to obtain SCI access.
• Experience engineering network connectivity for hybrid/multi-cloud environments.
• Strong documentation and ability to lead complex engineering projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead network engineering, design, testing, deployment, and technical troubleshooting for enterprise WAN, LAN, DNS, wireless, network tools, and cloud-connected environments.
• Maintain the design integrity, security, performance, availability, and reliability of client enterprise network services.
• Develop secure network designs for Government facilities, data centers, remote users, and commercial, private, or hybrid cloud environments.
• Produce and maintain technical requirements, high- and low-level designs, Detailed Design Documents, diagrams, test plans, implementation plans, and change documentation.
• Provide Tier 3 technical assistance for complex network and system requests, identify root causes, and recommend sustainable solutions.
• Test new technologies, hardware, software, configurations, patches, and vendor fixes before production implementation.
• Support change, configuration, release, technology refresh, capacity planning, performance monitoring, vulnerability remediation, and disaster recovery activities.
• Collaborate with enterprise architects, cloud engineers, security teams, identity teams, and operations personnel to integrate solutions and transition them into production support.
• Brief Government and contractor stakeholders, mentor engineers, and lead technical reviews and problem-solving sessions.

Skills

WAN design

LAN design

DNS

Wireless networking

Cloud connectivity

Network security

Technical leadership

Troubleshooting

Hybrid/multi-cloud

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering, computer science, information systems

15+ years IT network engineering experience

Job description

NTT DATA North America in Arlington, Virginia is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to serve as the senior network engineering SME for a government client. The ideal candidate will design, test, deploy, troubleshoot, and sustain large enterprise networks, leading complex WAN/LAN, DNS, wireless, and cloud connectivity initiatives.

This role requires broad enterprise network depth and leadership, collaborating with architects and security teams while mentoring engineers to deliver secure, reliable