Senior Network Engineer

Senior Network Engineer

Company Overview

Dutch Ridge Consulting Group LLC (DRCG) is an ISO 9001:2015 Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Certified Veteran Enterprise (CVE) Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB). DRCG provides cleared technical support staff throughout the United States with corporate offices in Ashburn Virginia. DRCG offers expertise in Systems Integration (SI) Information Technology (IT) solutioning Program Management Risk Management Business Process Reengineering (BPR) Requirements Engineering Workflow Solutioning and Business Consulting Services. Established in 2016 DRCG is 100% US owned and predominately supports the DoJ DoW and DHS. DRCG optimizes client investments by leveraging expertise to better manage the growth and transformation of existing IT environments.

Description

DRCG is seeking a highly motivated Senior Network Engineer to support a federal customers goals to modernize and transform their IT environment to efficiently deliver new technologies to their workforce.

The Senior Network Engineer provides Tier 3 engineering and operational support for classified and unclassified networks across a large globally distributed enterprise. This role requires deep technical expertise strong operational discipline and the ability to collaborate across security cloud and infrastructure teams while supporting mission-critical systems.

The engineer will support hundreds of domestic and international locations and operate across on-premise datacenters campus networks WAN and cloud environments.

Job Location:. Merrifield VA (3-days onsite)

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 3 senior-level support for network design implementation deployment and sustained operations across the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) enterprise
• Support classified and unclassified environments ensuring operational continuity security compliance and high availability
• Act as a technical escalation point for complex network incidents outages and performance issues
• Participate in architecture reviews design sessions and implementation planning
• Collaborate with Security Cloud Systems and Application teams to ensure integrated solutions
• Support global operations including after-hours support and maintenance windows as required
• Develop and maintain engineering documentation diagrams and operational runbooks

Technical Requirements

Enterprise Networking

• Expert knowledge of Layer 2 / Layer 3 networking including routing switching and troubleshooting at scale
• Strong experience with LAN WAN and global network optimization
• Understand Dynamic Multipoint VPN (DMVPN) environments
• Experience supporting campus networks across large user populations
• Operational experience with wireless network design deployment and troubleshooting
• Support for network applications installed on client workstations

Datacenter & Infrastructure

• Operational support for on-premise datacenter networks
• Experience with datacenter load balancing (design configuration and troubleshooting)
• Strong understanding of high availability redundancy and failure domains
• Ability to troubleshoot complex east-west and north-south traffic flows

Cloud Networking

• Provide engineering and operational support for cloud networking in:
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Microsoft Azure
• Experience with:
• Hybrid cloud connectivity
• Cloud routing and security constructs
• Integration between cloud and on-premise environments

Virtualization

• Strong working knowledge of VMware environments
• Understanding of network integration with virtualized workloads
• Experience troubleshooting network issues in virtualized datacenters

Network Access & Security

• Experience designing and supporting network access security solutions
• Strong expertise with 802.1X authentication
• Hands-on experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) including:
• Policy enforcement
• Authentication/authorization
• Integration with enterprise identity services

Operational & Professional Skills

• Ability to operate effectively in high-pressure mission-critical environments
• Strong troubleshooting methodology and root-cause analysis skills
• Experience supporting strict change management and approval processes
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to mentor junior engineers and contribute to team standards
• Strong documentation discipline and operational rigor

Security & Compliance

• Experience supporting classified and unclassified networks
• Ability to follow federal security compliance and operational requirements
• Active or ability to obtain appropriate security clearance (as required)

Desired Experience

• Experience supporting large federal or law-enforcement enterprise environments
• Exposure to global network operations
• Prior work in high-availability 24x7 operational environments
• Current CCNP certification or higher (Route Switchenterprise)

Nice to Have experience:

• Cisco ACI
• Cisco NDO
• Cisco FirePower or other firewall experience
• F5 configuration
• ServiceNow

• Active/current Secret Clearance is required at the time of hire.
• 7 years of relevant experience
• Bachelors degree in a related field or relevant work experience

Required Experience:

Senior IC