Principal Network Engineer serving as the senior technical authority for routing and switching, responsible for strategic design and implementation to improve network security, scalability, resiliency, and performance.
Pay range for this position is $65.00 - $85.00/hr
- Own the enterprise routing and switching architecture, including core, distribution, access, WAN edge, and data center interconnect designs.
- Define routing architecture and policy standards across BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and static routing.
- Define Layer 2 and high-availability architecture, including VLAN and spanning-tree strategy, link aggregation, redundancy models, VRF and segmentation structure, multicast design, and QoS policy architecture.
- Evaluate current network architecture, identify gaps and improvement opportunities, estimate level of effort, assess implementation risk, and develop practical engineering plans.
- Drive strategic engineering projects from concept through implementation, including architecture evaluation, requirements analysis, dependency management, design coordination, planning, execution, validation, and transition to operations.
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience
- Master's degree
- Nice to have: IPv4/v6 transition
- Nice to have: Software-defined networking
- Nice to have: Automation
Network EngineerTEKsystems · Fort Meade, US