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Network Engineer

The Tri-Com Consulting Group
Plainville, CT Other
POSTED ON 12/14/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/13/2026

Job Details

Location: Hybrid 3 days onsite/2 days remote

Anticipated Duration: 1-year contract (extensions possible)

 

Duties and Responsibilities:

  • Lead long-range planning of the overall network, architecture, security, and capacity.
  • Lead outage resolution and post incident reviews including detailed root cause analysis.
  • Lead design and implement complex network systems including physical and logical topology.
  • Lead business continuity/disaster recovery planning, testing, and execution.
  • Present network plans to management staff/key stakeholders aligning strategy and need.
  • Serve final as escalation point for incidents, requests, design reviews, and vendor escalations.
  • Mentor and guide junior engineering staff and help with cross-team competency.
  • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) on optical, packet, security, and/or cloud services.
  • Write technical specifications and requirements for procurements needs and documents.
  • Perform other duties as required.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

  1. BD in a STEM field 6 years of directly related experience, or equivalent experience.
  2. 3 years’ experience as the lead or senior network engineer in support of a large-scale network
  3. Experience leveraging MPLS and traffic engineering.
  4. Experience leveraging VRFs in complex network environments.
  5. Proven experience in providing high profile outage resolution and post incident reviews.

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  1. Advanced Degree (Masters or Doctorate) in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Match) discipline or related to computer networking.
  2. CCIE or JNCIE certification; Service Provider track preferred
  3. 7 years in a large-scale, service provider or multi-discipline enterprise network environment.
  4. Demonstrated ability to write specifications, document existing, and planned systems.
  5. 4 years programming experience, which includes working directly with network systems.
  6. Experience developing and/or maintaining emergency/incident response plans.
  7. Project Management certification or demonstrated experience.
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