Network Engineer Senior
About The Position
Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support a mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC. This role offers the opportunity to lead technical work, mentor teammates, improve network reliability, and support an expanding mission environment focused on secure, resilient, and high-performing operations. The Senior Network Engineer will provide senior-level network engineering support for complex enterprise, classified, and secure communications environments. This role will support the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of secure network infrastructure across mission-critical federal IT environments. The Senior Network Engineer will lead network design activities, troubleshoot complex network issues, support encrypted communications, document network architecture, mentor junior technical staff, and support change management, network security, segmentation, and operational improvements. This position will also help strengthen network availability, performance, resilience, compliance, and secure configuration management across the enterprise. This role requires a hands-on senior technical professional with experience supporting routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, encrypted communications, network monitoring tools, segmentation strategies, and secure enterprise network operations. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical judgment, clear communication skills, documentation discipline, and the ability to collaborate across systems, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government stakeholder teams in a classified or sensitive federal mission environment.
Requirements
- Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
- Enterprise routing, switching, firewall, segmentation, and network security experience
- Experience supporting secure or mission-critical environments
- Hands-on senior technical professional with experience supporting routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, encrypted communications, network monitoring tools, segmentation strategies, and secure enterprise network operations
- Strong technical judgment
- Clear communication skills
- Documentation discipline
- Ability to collaborate across systems, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government stakeholder teams in a classified or sensitive federal mission environment
Responsibilities
- Lead technical work
- Mentor teammates
- Improve network reliability
- Support an expanding mission environment focused on secure, resilient, and high-performing operations
- Provide senior-level network engineering support for complex enterprise, classified, and secure communications environments
- Support the design, implementation, configuration, maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of secure network infrastructure across mission-critical federal IT environments
- Lead network design activities
- Troubleshoot complex network issues
- Support encrypted communications
- Document network architecture
- Mentor junior technical staff
- Support change management, network security, segmentation, and operational improvements
- Strengthen network availability, performance, resilience, compliance, and secure configuration management across the enterprise
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
