Network Engineer Jobs

4,177 jobs found — updated daily

Network Engineer

MANTECH•Fort Meade, MD
•$141,500 - $236,000•Onsite

About The Position

MANTECH is seeking an experienced, customer-oriented Network Engineer to join its team in the Fort Meade, Maryland area. The role supports government intelligence agencies and involves building, operating, sustaining, and improving complex, secure, multi-platform network solutions. The engineer will work with technologies and services spanning IP networks, WANs, LANs, Internet connectivity, routing, switching, server load balancing, network security, and wireless communications. The position is onsite and requires an active TS/SCI clearance with Poly. The role includes implementing and supporting network infrastructures, diagnosing and improving network performance, and operating networks in secure PKI-, IPSEC-, or VPN-enabled environments. It also involves evaluating communications technologies and working with VxLAN, software-defined networking, and automation tools such as Ansible and Python.

Requirements

  • 14 years of experience with a bachelor's degree in a technical discipline; alternatively, six additional years of experience may substitute for a degree.
  • Experience implementing and technically supporting multi-platform, multi-system networks, including diagnosing network performance shortcomings and designing and implementing improvements.
  • Experience supporting network solutions for complex, high-performance systems.
  • Experience provisioning and sustaining network infrastructures and developing, operating, and managing networks.
  • Knowledge and experience with peer-to-peer distributed storage networks, peer-to-peer routing, and application messaging frameworks.
  • Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly.

Nice To Haves

  • VLAN implementation and troubleshooting experience.
  • Data center build or maintenance experience.
  • Virtual infrastructure management, maintenance, or troubleshooting experience.
  • Software-defined or policy-based network experience.
  • Scripting experience, such as Python or Ansible.
  • VxLAN implementation and software-defined networking experience, including Cisco ACI or VMware NSX.

Responsibilities

  • Support multi-platform, multi-system network solutions.
  • Provision and sustain network infrastructures.
  • Diagnose network performance shortcomings and design and implement performance improvements.
  • Develop, operate, and manage networks in secure PKI-, IPSEC-, or VPN-enabled environments.
  • Implement routing protocols, QoS, traffic shaping, and policing on the network.
  • Research and recommend advanced technologies, including software-defined networking and infrastructure as code.
  • Provide technical expertise in managing public and/or private networks, including IP networks, WANs, and public switched telephone networks.
  • Plan, design, install, maintain, monitor, analyze, troubleshoot, modify, and support network communications systems to provide maximum performance and availability.
  • Plan, design, implement, and support LANs and WANs involving Internet connectivity, capacity planning, routing, switching, server load balancing, network security, and wireless.
  • Evaluate and report on new communications technologies to enhance network capabilities.

Benefits

  • Health insurance
  • Life insurance
  • Paid time off
  • Holiday pay
  • Short-term and long-term disability
  • Retirement and savings
  • Learning and development opportunities
  • Wellness programs
  • Optional benefit elections

Career Resources

Build a Resume for Network Engineer

The resume builder that gets results.

  • Get clear feedback so you look as qualified as you are
  • Align your resume with the job to get further in the process, faster
  • Take the guesswork out of resume writing

Explore Related Job Searches

© 2026 Teal Labs, Inc
Privacy PolicyTerms of Service