Senior Network Engineer - Mechanicsville, VA (23116) (Onsite)

Yakshna Solutions, Inc.; Mechanicsville (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 105,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

Health, dental, and vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Paid time off

Training & development

Job summary

Yakshna Solutions, Inc (YSI) in Virginia seeks a Senior Network Engineer to implement and support the agency’s IT network infrastructure. You will troubleshoot enterprise networks and partner with cloud, DevSecOps, and suppliers to ensure secure, scalable connectivity.

Required: CCNA/JNCIA-Junos certifications, strong LAN/WAN design, SD-WAN experience, and knowledge of routing, switching, VPNs, firewalls, QoS, and IPsec. On-site role with competitive benefits and salary.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and load balancers.
• Design, install and troubleshoot local- and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Hands-on engineering and design experience in networking.
• Industry standard networking certifications (e.g., CCNA, JNCIA-Junos).

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot network infrastructure issues and ensure uptime.
• Use diagnostic tools and monitoring to identify problems.
• Collaborate with vendors and stakeholders for requirements and configurations.
• Assist in documenting network topology, IP schemes, and firewall rules.
• Oversee installations, upgrades, and data network infrastructure changes.
• Coordinate with cloud and DevSecOps teams for SDWAN optimization.
• Work independently on assigned networking projects.

Skills

Networking

LAN/WAN design

Cisco CCNA

SD-WAN

Cloud networking

Firewall & VPN

Network diagrams

Education

Cisco CCNA

Juniper JNCIA-Junos

Job description

We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards.

We help companies realize and implement IT solutions strategically. Yakshna Solutions supports our client’s mission and goals by sharing our know-how, skills and knowledge. We strive to attract and retain the brightest people and offer different job experiences with a full range of challenges and rewards. We take pride in being an equal opportunity employer.

Working with Yakshna gives you the opportunity to develop your knowledge, skills, and abilities. Additionally, you can build a network of peers, mentors and advance your career! We offer exciting opportunities to work with leading industry experts, business consultants and IT specialists across large government and private sector companies. The people who work in Yakshna are as diverse as our services. We recognize the crucial importance of each individual to our success and offer competitive compensation, comprehensive benefits and innovative training.

Opportunities here exist across many services and across many US states. Based on your relevant profile and our current requirements, our recruitment team will contact you as soon as possible.

Senior Network Engineer

Yakshna Solutions, Inc (YSI) is a CMMI Level 3 assessed, ISO 9001, 20000:1, 27001 certified, woman-owned small business enterprises, headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, USA. YSI provides professional IT solutions and services to business corporations and government organizations. YSI is committed to serve its business communities as a leading IT vendor providing innovative, quality, and cost-effective IT business solutions and services.

We offer a competitive benefits package that includes the following: 401(k), health, dental, and vision insurance, Life insurance, short-term and long-term disability insurance, paid time off, training, and professional development assistance.

YSI is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to implement and provide support to the agency’s (VDOT) IT Network Infrastructure.

Job Responsibilities

• 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 & Experience

• Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
• Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Considerable direct hands-on experience, engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
• Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
• In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
• Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
• Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
• Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
• Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, MPLS
• Experience working with SDWAN
• Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
• Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking

Location: 9120 Lockwood Blvd, Mechanicsville, VA (23116) (Onsite)

Salary: $90,000-105,000 annually with benefits

U.S Citizen or Green card holder only

YSI is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.