Senior Network Engineer - Routing & Switching

pt78; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Platinum Technologies, based near Northern Virginia, seeks a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and sustain enterprise routing and switching across a large distributed environment. The role emphasizes hands-on work with core, distribution, access layers, and WAN edge, requiring independent problem solving and escalation management.

The candidate will work onsite at Fort Meade, MD, handling complex routing/switching challenges and ensuring high availability and security across the

Qualifications

• Strong working knowledge of routing and switching principles, theories, and concepts.
• Experience designing and implementing enterprise network architectures.
• Ability to translate requirements into implementable designs and solutions.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and implement enterprise routing and switching infrastructure across core, distribution, access, and WAN edge layers.
• Design and implement routing policies using BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and static routes.
• Maintain Layer 2 infrastructure including VLANs, STP, LACP, and redundancy.
• Develop specs for network architectures and evaluate new technologies.
• Install, modify, test, and service network equipment and perform hardware/software upgrades.
• Baseline and optimize network performance (latency, throughput, convergence) and remediate deficiencies.

Skills

Routing & Switching

Network design

BGP/OSPF/EIGRP

Troubleshooting

Communication

Job description

Who we are.

Platinum Technologies is a Northern Virginia based integrated solutions firm that specializes in PaaS, Cybersecurity & AI Platform development for the Defense and Federal Sectors. Our team solves hard problems and helps our Mission Partners achieve their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products - we want to hear from you.

We lead with technical expertise, but that is just the tip of the iceberg - the 'Why' matters. At Platinum, we don't hire people to just do a job. We provide professional and leadership development to complement our self-motivated domain experts. Our teammates are dot-connecting leaders that operate in a mutually accountable environment to deliver thought leadership, expert technical analysis, and quality execution for our clients.

You.

Platinum Technologies currently has an opportunity for a Senior Network Engineer specializing in routing and switching to engineer, implement, and sustain enterprise network infrastructure across a large, distributed environment. The role carries hands-on responsibility for the routed and switched core - designing changes, implementing them cleanly, and resolving the complex problems that reach the senior engineering tier.

This position supports overall network engineering across a broad range of efforts, including planning, designing, and evaluating components of the network. Duties include developing specifications for routing and switching designs, evaluating and recommending technologies to enhance current capabilities, performing needs assessments, and performing installation, modification, testing, and servicing of network equipment.

The successful candidate operates independently on complex engineering work, translates requirements into implementable designs, and serves as an escalation point for routing, switching, and transport issues that others cannot resolve.

This role is onsite at Fort Meade, MD.

Candidates must hold an active Secret clearance.

Scope and Impact

Impact: Contributes to the completion of significant project milestones and recommends technical solutions and improvements that affect program results. Work is performed under general direction, with latitude for independent judgment on technical approach.

Complexity: Resolves complex technical problems requiring in-depth analysis, evaluation of multiple factors, and application of established engineering principles and best practices.

Communication: Communicates technical information, design recommendations, risks, and status to engineering leadership, peer teams, and stakeholders. Explains complex technical concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Knowledge: Strong working knowledge of routing and switching principles, theories, and concepts, with demonstrated depth across enterprise network technologies.

Primary Responsibilities

Routing and Switching Engineering

• Engineer, configure, and implement enterprise routing and switching infrastructure, including core, distribution, access, and WAN edge layers.


• Design and implement routing policy using BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and static routing, including route redistribution, filtering, summarization, path selection, and convergence tuning.


• Engineer Layer 2 infrastructure, including VLAN architecture, spanning-tree design, link aggregation, trunking, and loop prevention.


• Implement and maintain VRFs, MPLS/VPN services, tunneling, multicast, QoS policy, and high-availability designs such as HSRP/VRRP and redundant uplink topologies.


• Develop specifications for network architecture, evaluate and recommend new technologies to enhance current capabilities, and perform needs assessments.


• Perform installation, modification, configuration, testing, and servicing of network equipment, including hardware refresh and software/firmware lifecycle upgrades.


• Baseline and optimize network performance - latency, throughput, utilization, convergence, and error rates - and remediate identified deficiencies.

Implementation and Operations Support

• Develop implementation plans, test and validation steps, rollback procedures, and change documentation for network changes, and execute them during approved change windows.


• Provide senior-level troubleshooting and escalation support for complex routing, switching, transport, and connectivity issues spanning multiple layers and vendors.


• Perform packet-level and protocol-level analysis to isolate faults across the network, systems, and application boundary.


• Support capacity planning, configuration standardization, and compliance of device configurations against approved baselines and hardening requirements.


• Partner with architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and project teams to resolve blockers, manage dependencies, and deliver network changes end-to-end.

Documentation

Develop and maintain engineering and operational documentation, including:

• Logical and physical network diagrams


• Routing des