Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Job Location: Merrifield, Virginia (onsite 5-days a week)

Compensation: $170,000 base salary. Benefits, PTO, Etc.

Eligibility/Clearance: Active Secret Clearance Required – This position
supports a government contract

Job Description:

We are seeking a highly motivated, Network Engineer, to support a
federal customer's goals to modernize and transform their IT environment
to efficiently deliver new technologies to their workforce.

The Network Engineer provides Tier 3 support and engineering expertise
for the design, testing, and implementation of the Next Generation
Network across all DEA offices. The position also requires administering
network (Cisco ACI), compute (Cisco UCS), and virtualization (VMware,
UCS Director) environments, performing network diagnostics and analysis,
troubleshooting production outages with service providers, terminating
fiber and network cables, and independently designing, writing, and
updating system documentation and network diagrams. Additional duties
include providing operational support for data centers, managing network
applications on client workstations, optimizing VPN and network
performance, implementing server load balancing and WAN optimization,
and securing network access.

Responsibilities (include but are not limited to):

- Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting various network
architectures

- Ability to work independently

- Designing, writing, and updating both system documentation and
network diagrams

Requirements:

- 5+ years of experience with hands-on enterprise network experience

- Professional certification (e.g., CCNP, CCDP)

- Knowledge of the inner workings of the major network routing
protocols, including dynamic routing

- Experience with a variety of firewalls

- Solid background in network administration and architecture

- Knowledge of building, developing, and maintaining SD-WAN
environments

- Familiarity with access control models and network security

- Experience with network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools

- Solid understanding of network operating systems (Aruba, Juniper,
Cisco)

- Solid understanding of VPN

- Sharp troubleshooting skills

- Terminating fiber and network cables

Education:

- Bachelors degree in a related field or relevant work experience

ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal
employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,
national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic
information, or mental or physical disability