Senior Network Engineer - onsite Mechanicsville, VA

Job Overview:

VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency’s IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of VDOT Network related infrastructure.

Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities:

• Considerable knowledge and working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to document, set up, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
  
• Be capable of troubleshooting Network related infrastructure.
  
• Identifies and diagnoses system problems by using line monitors, diagnostic software, test equipment.
  
• Works closely with agency’s IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather requirements, specifications, and configurations to assure they are accurate and up to date.
  
• Responsible for assisting in troubleshooting and resolving network issues impacting application performance and uptime.
  
• Assist in overseeing the installation, documentation, and upgrades of various agency facility data network infrastructure.
  
• Will oversee and collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
  
• Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
  
• Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects. 
  
• Must have minimally obtained an industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
  

 Required Skills & Qualifications:

Skill

Required/ Desired

Amount of Experience

Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)

Required

8+ Years

Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.

Required

8+ Years

Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.

Required

8+ Years

Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)

Required

N/A

In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.

Required

8+ Years

Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.

Required

8+ Years

Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.

Required

8+ Years

Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.

Required

8+ Years

Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.

Required

8+ Years

Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking,  HSRP, QoS, multicast,  IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP,  BRI/PRI, MPLS

Required

8+ Years

Experience working with SDWAN

Preferred

3+ Years

Experience working with network topology related to Cloud

Preferred

3+ Years

Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking

Preferred

3+ Years