Network Engineer

I am sourcing candidates for an on-site Network Engineer for a client in Washington, DC. I am sourcing candidates with strong network experience and experience working in a Windows environment.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, and deploy company LANs, WANs, SD-WAN, and stadium wireless networks, including routers, switches, firewalls, secure proxies, load balancers, audio/video platforms, and SMTE2110-compliant broadcast networks.
• Design, deploy, upgrade, and support network monitoring, troubleshooting, performance optimization, and reporting, leveraging hands-on performance monitoring tools like SolarWinds, Zscaler, and Splunk.
• Design, deploy, and support wireless, video conferencing, and IP-based voice solutions.
• Provide and implement network security best practices using technologies such as VPNs/encryption, firewalls, secure proxies, IDS/IPS, and secure network design methodologies.
• Configure routers/switches, firewalls, VPNs, application load balancers, secure proxies, quality of service designs, and multicast video/audio over IP networks.
• Stay abreast of industry trends to proactively identify areas for growth, improvement, and development while implementing industry best practices.
• Execute advanced troubleshooting skills and tools to address network performance issues, utilizing scripting skills in languages like PowerShell, Python, or SQL for tool integration and process automation.
• Establish and maintain customer configuration management and documentation requirements.
• Provide tier 2 support for all networks.
• Produce required documentation before system hand-off to the operations team.
• Write and maintain documentation about equipment installation and operation.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years' experience in planning, designing, implementing, and providing technical support for multi-vendor, multi-platform enterprise networks, ideally in a broadcast field or similar 24/7 customer-facing enterprise.
• Experience with routing protocols: IGMP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs, EVPN-BGP, and VXLAN.
• Significant experience providing layered security using firewalls, VPNs, encryption, IDS/IPS, and secure proxies.
• Detailed knowledge of 802.11 wireless technology standards – 802.11b/a/n/ac/ax/be.
• Network security and automation experience preferred.
• Strong background in cybersecurity principles and practices, with at least 5 years of relevant experience.
• Experience with systems documentation and operational procedures.
• Experience working with multi-functional teams and partners.
• Experience supporting collocated networks and Cloud Service Providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, etc.) is a plus.
• IP networking certification required (CCNA/CCDA/CCDP/CCNP/JNCIA/ACE-A).
• Ability to balance and prioritize tasks in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Outstanding interpersonal, written, and verbal communication skills; able to work effectively with staff at all levels.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Ability to work independently with minimal supervision and direction, as well as in a team environment.
• Availability to travel for assignments.

Technical Skills

• Protocols include IGMP, BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VRF, VPNs, EVPN-BGP, VXLAN, IPv4, IPv6, DNS, DHCP, MPLS, SSL.
• Extensive experience with IP Multicast – dense mode, sparse mode (RPs/BSRs), and source-specific multicast.
• Routers and switches such as Cisco Nexus or Arista.
• WAN connectivity technologies (IPSEC VPN, SD-WAN, DMVPN, etc.).
• Experienced knowledge of firewalls/ACL/encryption/VPN technology – Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco ASA/Firepower and associated protocols (IPSEC/GRE) and secure proxy functions.
• Ethernet Switching and Routing technologies (Spanning Tree, Access Control, QoS and PBR, VXLAN, EVPN datacenter networking, Link Aggregation Technologies (LACP, MC-LAG, MLAG, vPC)).
• SNMP, NTP, TACACS/RADIUS, Syslog, and other critical network management/administration protocols.
• Application and load balancing products and technologies.
• Extensive experience in multi-vendor network architecture.
• Experience provisioning and solving Ethernet, MPLS, and other WAN technologies.
• Fully versed in standard Internet services such as DNS, SSL, HTTP, etc.
• Experience with video/audio over IP transmission.
• Familiarity with signal flow within broadcast/IT facilities.
• Familiarity with HVAC, Electrical, Mechanical, and data center systems.
• Able to understand routing logic, signal flow, and various systems of the signal path.
• Experience with automation and scripting (desired).
• Understanding of cloud networking.