Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support a mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC.
Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Join Everforth ECS Federal as a Senior Network Engineer helping strengthen secure infrastructure for national security and law enforcement missions. 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.
Preferred Qualifications- Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
- Enterprise routing, switching, firewall, segmentation, and network security experience
- Experience supporting secure or mission-critical environments.
Skills Required
- Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
- Enterprise routing, switching, firewall, segmentation, and network security experience
- Hands-on experience with routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, encrypted communications, and network monitoring tools
- Experience supporting classified, secure, or mission-critical federal environments
- Leadership, mentoring, strong communication, and documentation discipline
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
