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Network Engineer

United States of America, McLean, Virginia💼 Full-time💰 $94,000–$94,000🗓 2026-08-05 → 2026-09-26

Core

Maintain, secure, and optimize complex network infrastructure including virtualized and containerized environments for a government contract/agency.

Role type

Senior Network Engineer (Infrastructure & Security)

Builds

Virtualized and containerized network environments, secure connectivity solutions

Domain

IT Infrastructure, Cybersecurity, Cloud Networking

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | infrastructure

Required skills

TCP/IP, OSI model, AWS networking (Transit Gateway, VPC, Route53), Cisco platforms (Nexus, Catalyst), Palo Alto firewalls, VMware vSphere, container networking, wireless networking, IPsec/VPN, ZTNA, Linux administration, PowerShell/Shell scripting, network monitoring (Nagios, Splunk)

Preferred skills

Industry certifications, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, programming concepts

Technologies

AWS, Cisco, Palo Alto, VMware, Terraform, Ansible, Nagios, Splunk, Linux, PowerShell

Responsibilities

Maintain, upgrade, configure, and secure network equipment and software; Troubleshoot connectivity and bandwidth issues; Document network configurations and participate in cross-training; Coordinate with IT on infrastructure initiatives; Perform after-hours maintenance and support; Enforce security compliance policies

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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