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Network Engineering Lead – Senior
DecisionPoint Corporation. Lead engineering support for USMEPCOM WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, circuit, wireless, cloud-connectivity, and network-management environments .
Core Competencies
Role fitCore Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in network architecture, engineering, and administration, with a strong focus on WAN, LAN, and SD-WAN environments. Proficient in troubleshooting, performance optimization, and secure cloud connectivity, while adhering to DoD standards and best practices.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Network Architecture PlanningCisco Certified Network ProfessionalEIGRP, OSPF, BGP ConfigurationCloud Connectivity IntegrationDISA Security Technical Implementation Guides
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Hard Skills
Network EngineeringNetwork AdministrationEnterprise InfrastructureRouting ProtocolsVLAN ConfigurationQuality of Service PoliciesSD-WAN ConfigurationWireless Network ManagementNetwork Monitoring ToolsTroubleshooting Network Issues
Soft Skills
Technical LeadershipAnalytical SkillsDocumentation SkillsVendor ManagementStakeholder Communication
Tools & Technologies
Cisco RoutersCisco SwitchesFirewallsWireless ControllersNetwork Management PlatformsCloud Networking TechnologiesNetwork Monitoring ToolsHeat Map Analysis ToolsConfiguration Management ToolsPerformance Management Tools
Certifications & Qualifications
Cisco Certified Network ProfessionalCompTIA Security+CompTIA Network+Cisco Certified Design ExpertCertified Wireless Network ProfessionalAWS Advanced NetworkingITIL Foundation
Industry Keywords
DoD EnvironmentDISASTIGsRMFATOIAVACND DirectivePOA&MNetwork CircuitsService Providers
Tech Stack
Tools & technologiesAWSCloudDNSFirewalls
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead engineering support for USMEPCOM WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, circuit, wireless, cloud-connectivity, and network-management environments
- Provide network architecture planning, integration, implementation, analysis, troubleshooting, and performance optimization
- Gather, analyze, document, and validate technical and operational network requirements
- Establish technical priorities, develop implementation schedules, estimate rough-order costs, and prepare high-level concepts of operations
- Design, configure, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise routing protocols including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP
- Configure and support routers, switches, firewalls, virtual routing, subinterfaces, VLAN routing, and Quality of Service policies
- Support ordering, installation, activation, migration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of network circuits
- Coordinate circuit installation and connectivity with Government personnel, DISA, telecommunications carriers, commercial vendors, and local service providers
- Monitor circuit status, availability, uptime, utilization, latency, packet loss, and network traffic
- Identify and resolve network issues to improve availability, performance, resilience, and capacity
- Install, refresh, configure, and troubleshoot SD-WAN devices and associated network services
- Support cloud connectivity and secure integration between cloud services and Government networks
- Configure, integrate, and maintain wireless controllers and wireless access points
- Perform wireless coverage and performance analysis using heat maps, surveys, monitoring data, and approved analytical tools
- Ensure network devices are securely configured, tested, and approved before connection to LAN and WAN environments
- Coordinate operating-system updates, firmware upgrades, vendor patches, security patches, and configuration changes
- Support DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and approved network-security configurations
- Develop and operate network-monitoring and management capabilities for availability, capacity, fault, and performance management
- Troubleshoot complex connectivity, routing, performance, configuration, wireless, circuit, VPN, firewall, and cloud-integration issues
- Support remote MEPS, Recruiting Processing Stations, virtual MEPS, and other remote locations
- Support the Outage Response Team during incidents, performance degradation, and service outages
- Provide technical diagnosis, restoration recommendations, workarounds, root-cause input, and corrective-action support
- Coordinate vendor escalation, maintenance, support, equipment refreshes, quotes, best-practice reviews, and replacement of failed network devices
- Support network cabling, rack, patch-panel, network-drop, and physical-infrastructure planning
- Conduct or support site surveys and develop network-drop requirements, installation estimates, and physical inside-plant documentation
- Maintain network diagrams, as-built drawings, schematics, rack layouts, equipment inventories, interconnection records, and ATO-supporting documentation
- Support network-equipment relocation and installation activities for new or relocated MEPS facilities
- Develop and maintain network standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, engineering documentation, lessons learned, and knowledge articles
- Support service design, service transition, change management, configuration management, and modernization activities
- Provide technical mentoring and guidance to network administrators, support specialists, and infrastructure personnel
Requirements
What you’ll need- Active Secret clearance or higher
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Networking, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- Minimum of 8 years of relevant network engineering, network architecture, network administration, or enterprise infrastructure experience
- Current Cisco Certified Network Professional certification
- Ability to work a hybrid schedule in N. Chicago, Illinois
- Preferred: CCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, or another directly related CCNP specialization
- Preferred: Experience leading network-engineering activities in a federal or Department of Defense environment
- Preferred: Advanced experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise WAN, LAN, and SD-WAN environments
- Preferred: Advanced knowledge of EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, virtual routing, subnetting, access-control lists, and Quality of Service
- Preferred: Experience with Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, access points, and network-management platforms
- Preferred: Experience ordering, installing, activating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Government and commercial network circuits
- Preferred: Experience coordinating circuit and connectivity services with DISA, telecommunications carriers, ISPs, and local IT service providers
- Preferred: Experience designing and troubleshooting secure connectivity between cloud environments and Government networks
- Preferred: Experience performing wireless surveys, heat-map analysis, coverage optimization, capacity analysis, and access-point placement
- Preferred: Experience supporting VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, network appliances, and cloud-networking technologies
- Preferred: Experience with enterprise network-monitoring, performance-management, configuration-management, and observability tools
- Preferred: Experience supporting network-related outage response, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking
- Preferred: Experience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements
- Preferred: Experience developing network diagrams, as-built documentation, rack layouts, site surveys, implementation plans, and technical concepts of operations
- Preferred: Familiarity with structured cabling, network racks, patch panels, inside-plant infrastructure, fiber, and network-drop planning
- Preferred: Additional certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Design Expert, Certified Wireless Network Professional, AWS Advanced Networking, or equivalent credentials
- Preferred: ITIL Foundation or higher certification
- Strong technical leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills
- Ability to coordinate multiple engineering, implementation, outage, vendor, and remote-site activities simultaneously
Benefits
Comp & perks- Regular full-time employment
- Hybrid work arrangement
- Technical mentoring and guidance opportunities
- After-hours availability support during outages, implementations, maintenance windows, or other mission-critical activities
- Opportunity to support an active competitive government contract bid