Senior Network Engineer - Zero Trust & Cisco Security

All Native Group, The Federal Services Division of Ho-Chunk Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

All Native Group seeks a Network Engineer to support the Congressional Budget Office's Cisco-based enterprise network, enforcing Zero Trust, segmentation and least-privilege access. The engineer will design, implement, and maintain secure network architectures and continuously monitor devices in line with federal standards and Cisco best practices.

The role collaborates with security and IT teams to remediate findings, support incident response, and produce network SOPs and diagrams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or related field; or equivalent professional experience.
• CCNA certification required; CCNP Enterprise preferred.
• 5+ years of professional network engineering experience in an enterprise Cisco environment.

Responsibilities

• Support Cisco-based network infrastructure across core, distribution, access, and edge layers for reliability and availability.
• Implement and maintain network security controls aligned with NIST SP 800-53 and NIST SP 800-207 Zero Trust Architecture.
• Enforce Zero Trust through segmentation, micro-segmentation, and least-privilege access.
• Manage 802.1X, VLAN segmentation, DNS/DHCP, VPNs, and firewall management.
• Configure routing, switching, VLANs, and network services; monitor and harden devices.
• Develop SOPs, baselines, and network diagrams; perform root cause analysis for incidents.
• Support incident response with network-level analysis and forensic data collection.

Skills

Cisco routing

Cisco switching

Zero Trust

Troubleshooting

Documentation

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT / CS or related field

CCNA certification required

CCNP Enterprise preferred

Job description

All Native Group seeks a Network Engineer to support the Congressional Budget Office's Cisco-based enterprise network, enforcing Zero Trust, segmentation and least-privilege access. The engineer will design, implement, and maintain secure network architectures and continuously monitor devices in line with federal standards and Cisco best practices.

The role collaborates with security and IT teams to remediate findings, support incident response, and produce network SOPs and diagrams.