Senior Network Engineer — Flexible Hours & Public Sector

JW Affinity IT; Town of Charlotte (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k with matching

Life Insurance Plan

PTO

Short Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Internet & Phone Allowance

Wellness Resources (EAP)

Job summary

JW Affinity IT is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to design, operate, secure, and troubleshoot municipal networks including wired, wireless, and WAN connections across multiple sites.

The ideal candidate will lead infrastructure improvements, respond to service disruptions, and coordinate with cybersecurity teams, vendors, and municipal stakeholders. A strong background in Cisco/Aruba Fortinet Palo Alto is preferred.

Qualifications

• Five to seven years of professional network engineering or network administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, subnetting, routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless networking.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade network technologies from Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, or comparable manufacturers.
• Experience supporting a distributed, multi-site network environment.
• Experience diagnosing complex network availability and performance issues.
• Working knowledge of network security, segmentation, access control, and high-availability design.
• Ability to create technical diagrams, implementation plans, configuration documentation, and change records.
• Bachelor's degree as stated, or equivalent combination of education, certifications, and experience.
• Ability to successfully complete any background screening required for access to municipal systems and facilities.

Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot switches, routers, firewalls, wireless controllers, access points, and related network equipment.
• Support LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, internet, and data-center connectivity across multiple municipal locations.
• Maintain secure connectivity between municipal facilities, cloud environments, remote employees, vendors, and partner organizations.
• Manage routing, switching, VLANs, subnetting, access control lists, quality of service, network segmentation, and redundancy.
• Monitor network availability, capacity, latency, utilization, and security events using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Diagnose and resolve complex connectivity, performance, voice, video, and application-delivery issues.
• Support firewall policies, site-to-site VPNs, remote-access VPNs, and network access controls.
• Design and implement network upgrades, equipment replacements, site expansions, and technology refreshes.
• Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, internet service providers, equipment manufacturers, and third-party vendors.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, IP address documentation, configuration standards, inventories, and recovery procedures.
• Conduct configuration backups, firmware upgrades, patching, and network-device lifecycle management.
• Support network vulnerability remediation and cybersecurity incident-response activities.
• Assist with disaster recovery, continuity-of-operations planning, and restoration testing.
• Provide technical leadership during network outages and high-priority service incidents.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance and an after-hours on-call rotation when required.

Skills

TCP/IP

DNS

DHCP

VLANs

VPNs

Subnetting

Routing

Switching

Firewalls

Wireless networking

Network security

High availability

Education

Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field

Tools

Cisco

Aruba

Fortinet

Palo Alto Networks

Juniper

Job description

JW Affinity IT is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to design, operate, secure, and troubleshoot municipal networks including wired, wireless, and WAN connections across multiple sites.

The ideal candidate will lead infrastructure improvements, respond to service disruptions, and coordinate with cybersecurity teams, vendors, and municipal stakeholders. A strong background in Cisco/Aruba Fortinet Palo Alto is preferred.