Senior Network Engineer - Routing & Switching (Hybrid)

Global Enterprise Services, Llc; Fort Meade (MD); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Global Enterprise Services, Llc is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and sustain enterprise routing and switching across a large, distributed environment at DISA Headquarters—Fort Meade, MD.

The role requires hands-on ownership of routing and switching (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, VLANs, QoS, VRFs, HA) with strong problem-solving skills and collaboration with architecture, cybersecurity, and operations teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of experience or Master's with 6+ years.
• Hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise routing and switching infrastructure at scale.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, subnetting, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, VLANs, spanning tree, QoS, NAT, and high-availability design.
• Experience with network hardware installation, configuration, software upgrades, and lifecycle replacement.
• Experience documenting network designs using Visio, PowerPoint, or similar.
• Current IAT Level II or higher certification, such as Security+ CE.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Infoblox, and Brocade.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, configure, and implement enterprise routing and switching infrastructure across 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.
• 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.

Skills

Routing & Switching

TCP/IP

Subnetting

VLANs

High-availability design

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Cisco

Aruba

Palo Alto

Dell

Infoblox

Brocade

Job description

Global Enterprise Services, Llc is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and sustain enterprise routing and switching across a large, distributed environment at DISA Headquarters—Fort Meade, MD.

The role requires hands-on ownership of routing and switching (BGP/OSPF/EIGRP, VLANs, QoS, VRFs, HA) with strong problem-solving skills and collaboration with architecture, cybersecurity, and operations teams.