Senior Network Engineer

Job Description

Role: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Fairfax, VA

Clearance: Active TS/SCI Required

Compensation: $150,000 - $220,000 Base Salary + 50% Employer Package

Benefits

• 25% 401(k) contribution
• Flexible benefits allowance worth 25% of base salary (can be taken as benefits or additional compensation)
• Up to 8 weeks PTO
• Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• Life Insurance
• 100% tuition reimbursement (Degrees, Certifications & Professional Development)
• Flexible working hours

The Opportunity

We're supporting a highly respected technology organization delivering critical solutions across the US Intelligence and National Security community.

As part of a senior-level networking team, you'll be responsible for designing, implementing and supporting highly secure, mission-essential network infrastructure supporting multiple intelligence programs. The environment demands exceptional levels of availability, fault tolerance and performance, providing the opportunity to work on technically challenging projects that have a direct operational impact.

This is not a network operations role. You'll be involved in architecture, engineering, implementation and ongoing enhancement of complex networking environments across data centre, transport and enterprise infrastructure layers.

What You'll Be Doing

• Designing and implementing secure enterprise network solutions
• Supporting large-scale mission-critical network infrastructure
• Engineering and maintaining routing, switching and transport environments
• Troubleshooting complex network performance and connectivity issues
• Supporting data centre and wide-area network environments
• Working closely with engineering teams and stakeholders to develop technical solutions
• Contributing to network architecture, design reviews and infrastructure improvements
• Providing technical leadership within your area of expertise

What We're Looking For

• 8+ years of network engineering experience
• Strong experience with Juniper networking technologies preferred
• Cisco networking experience also considered
• Experience designing, implementing and maintaining enterprise networks
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP networking and associated protocols
• Experience with routing protocols including OSPF, EIGRP and BGP
• Experience with LAN, WAN and network security technologies
• Experience with firewalls, ACLs and secure network architectures
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication skills and ability to work within highly collaborative engineering teams

Desirable Experience

• Juniper certifications (JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE)
• Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP)
• EVPN, VXLAN or MPLS environments
• Multicast networking
• VLANs, trunking and spanning tree
• Bash, Python or other scripting languages

Applicants must hold an active TS/SCI clearance.