Senior Network Engineer
Maania Consultancy Services · Fort Belvoir, Virginia, United States
Staffing and Recruiting · 51-200 employees
About the role
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for engineering and sustaining enterprise network infrastructure within secure federal environments. This includes configuring and managing routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and VPN solutions to ensure robust network performance.
What they look for
Requirements
Candidates must hold a Bachelor's or Master's degree in a technical field and possess 6-12 years of relevant experience. An active Top Secret/SCI clearance and DoD 8570/8140 baseline certifications (Security+ and CCNA) are mandatory.
Full description
Required Qualifications• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Network Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline with 8-12 years of relevant experience, OR a Master’s degree with 6-10 years of relevant experience.
- Current DoD 8570/8140 baseline certification (Security+ and CCNA).
- Proven experience in engineering and sustaining enterprise network infrastructure in DoD or other federal environments.
- Hands-on experience with routing and switching protocols (BGP, OSPF), network security (NGFW, IDS/IPS), and load balancing.
- Experience with configuring routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and VPN solutions from vendors like Cisco, and Palo Alto.
- Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with SCI - TS/SCI
Desired Qualifications• Advanced networking certifications such as Cisco CCNP or CCIE.
- Experience with high-assurance cryptographic devices, specifically TACLANE (KG-175).
- Experience with Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM).
- Experience with network automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Ansible.
- Familiarity with Zero Trust network segmentation and micro-segmentation.
- Experience supporting large-scale enterprise data, analytics, or platform services in secure environments.
- Experience with Remedy or ServiceNow ticketing systems.
- Familiarity with TACLANE management (e.g. GemOne, CHIMERA, VINE)
- Experience with Cisco Nexus switching platforms and expertise in software-defined networking (SDN) solutions, particularly Cisco ACI, for data center automation and micro-segmentation.
