Network Engineer

Network Engineer
Richmond VA
Need local to VA Key Requirements

• Considerable knowledge and hands-on experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points (WAPs) – 8 years required

• Strong hands-on experience in setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing, and troubleshooting routers, switches, and WAPs – 8 years required

• Proven ability to design, install, and troubleshoot local-area (LAN) and wide-area (WAN) enterprise networks – 8 years required

• Direct engineering and network design experience in the networking industry – 8 years required

• Possession of industry-standard certifications such as Cisco CCNA , Juniper JNCIA-Junos , or equivalent – required

• In-depth experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting enterprise LAN/WAN networks – 8 years required

• Experience in monitoring IT environments to ensure compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards – 8 years required

• Proven ability to create scalable, repeatable, and fault-tolerant network architectures – 8 years required

• Experience in performance tuning, system monitoring, metrics/statistics collection, and disaster recovery – 8 years required

• Proficiency in creating detailed network diagrams using tools such as Microsoft Visio – 8 years required

• Strong working knowledge of networking protocols and features including:

• ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, and IPsec – 8 years required

• Experience working with SD-WAN solutions – 3 years desired

• Experience with network topologies related to cloud environments – 3 years desired

• Familiarity and hands-on experience in cloud networking (AWS, Azure, or similar) – 3 years desired