What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Network Engineer position at DataStaff, Inc.?
DataStaff, Inc is in need of a Senior Network Engineer for a long-term contract opportunity for one of our direct clients in Mechanicsville, VA.
*This position is onsite
Our client 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 and documentation of our client’s network infrastructure.
Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.
Required Skills:
- 8 years - Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points.
- 8 years - Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS.
- 8 years - Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
- 8 years - Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
- Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
- 8 years - In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
- 8 years - Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
- 8 years - Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
- 8 years - Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
- 8 years - Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
- 8 years - Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc
Desired Skills:
- 3 years - Experience working with SDWAN
- 3 years - Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
- 3 years - Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking
This opportunity is available on a corp-to-corp basis or as a W2 position with a competitive benefits package. DataStaff, Inc. offers medical, dental, and vision coverage options as well as paid vacation, sick, and holiday leave. As many of our opportunities are long-term, we also have a 401k program available for employees after 6 months.