Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Location: Mechanicsville, Virginia

Work Arrangement: Onsite

SJ Mobilita is recruiting for a client for an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support and maintain enterprise IT network infrastructure.

About the Role

The Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for implementing, supporting, documenting, troubleshooting, and maintaining enterprise network infrastructure.

The ideal candidate should have strong hands-on experience with enterprise networking technologies and the ability to independently manage network engineering, troubleshooting, documentation, upgrades, and infrastructure projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, manage, upgrade, and troubleshoot enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers.
• Troubleshoot network infrastructure and identify system issues using diagnostic tools and monitoring technologies.
• Work with IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather and maintain accurate network requirements, specifications, and configurations.
• Assist in troubleshooting network issues impacting application performance and availability.
• Support the installation, documentation, and upgrades of facility network infrastructure.
• Collaborate with Cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SD-WAN configurations.
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams, topology documentation, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls.
• Monitor network environments for compliance with security, architecture, and organizational standards.
• Work independently on assigned network engineering projects.
• Support performance monitoring, tuning, metrics collection, and disaster recovery activities.

Required Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and related networking infrastructure.
• 8+ years of experience designing, installing, configuring, and troubleshooting LAN/WAN enterprise networks.
• 8+ years of direct network engineering and design experience.
• 8+ years of experience monitoring IT environments for security, architecture, policies, and standards compliance.
• 8+ years of experience designing reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant network architectures.
• 8+ years of experience with network performance tuning, monitoring, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
• 8+ years of experience creating network diagrams using tools such as Microsoft Visio.
• Industry-standard networking certification such as Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA-Junos , or equivalent.

Networking Technologies / Protocols

Hands-on experience with:

ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, 802.1Q Trunking, HSRP, QoS, Multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, MPLS , and related enterprise networking technologies.

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience working with SD-WAN .
• 3+ years of experience with network topology related to Cloud environments.
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud Networking.