Job Overview:
VDOT is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer (Sr NE) to implement and provide support to the agency’s IT Network infrastructure. The Sr NE performs day-to-day activities related to the support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of VDOT Network related infrastructure.
Candidate must have in-depth, considerable knowledge and hands-on experience understanding, documenting, and maintaining Network related infrastructure.
Key Responsibilities:
- Considerable knowledge and working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to document, set up, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
- Be capable of troubleshooting Network related infrastructure.
- Identifies and diagnoses system problems by using line monitors, diagnostic software, test equipment.
- Works closely with agency’s IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to gather requirements, specifications, and configurations to assure they are accurate and up to date.
- Responsible for assisting in troubleshooting and resolving network issues impacting application performance and uptime.
- Assist in overseeing the installation, documentation, and upgrades of various agency facility data network infrastructure.
- Will oversee and collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
- Must have the ability to provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls when required.
- Must have the ability to work independently on assigned projects.
- Must have minimally obtained an industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
Required Skills & Qualifications:
Skill
Required/ Desired
Amount of Experience
Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers (including the ability to setup, configure, upgrade, manage, and troubleshoot)
Required
8+ Years
Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
Required
8+ Years
Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required.
Required
8+ Years
Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.)
Required
N/A
In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
Required
8+ Years
Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
Required
8+ Years
Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
Required
8+ Years
Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
Required
8+ Years
Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc.
Required
8+ Years
Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS/TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, MPLS
Required
8+ Years
Experience working with SDWAN
Preferred
3+ Years
Experience working with network topology related to Cloud
Preferred
3+ Years
Familiarity and experience working with cloud networking
Preferred
3+ Years
Requirements
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Required
8
Years
Desired
3
Years
Desired
3
Years
Desired
3
Years
Skills Required
- 8+ years of hands-on experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers
- 8+ years of experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks
- 8+ years of direct hands-on network engineering and design experience
- Industry-standard networking certification, such as Cisco CCNA or Juniper JNCIA-Junos
- 8+ years of experience monitoring IT environments for information security, architecture policies, and standards compliance
- 8+ years of experience creating reliable, scalable, fault-tolerant network architectures
- 8+ years of experience with performance tuning, systems monitoring, metrics collection, and disaster recovery
- 8+ years of experience creating network diagrams using tools such as Visio
- 8+ years of experience with ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, 802.1Q trunking, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, RADIUS, TACACS+, SNMP, BRI/PRI, and MPLS
- 3+ years of experience working with SD-WAN
- 3+ years of experience with cloud-related network topology
- 3+ years of experience with cloud networking
What We Do
Novalink Solutions LLC is a global consulting, engineering, and AI product development company specializing in information technology and telecommunications. They provide AI-powered products, automation platforms, intelligent workflow systems, IT consulting, managed engineering, and staff augmentation services.
