The Senior Network Engineer provides advanced engineering, operational, and advisory support for enterprise network infrastructure. This role adds technical leadership to the core network engineering scope, with emphasis on architecture, secure access design, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance readiness, and collaboration with adjacent engineering teams.
What Your Day-To-Day Looks Like (Position Responsibilities):
Design, implement, operate, and optimize enterprise network infrastructure to support availability, scalability, performance, and resilience.
Implement and maintain network security controls aligned to federal security standards, Zero Trust architecture, and vendor best practices.
Engineer secure network access controls, including 802.1X, role-based access, and identity-aware models.
Manage routing, switching, virtual local area networks (VLANs), Domain Name System (DNS), Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP), virtual private networks (VPNs), firewalls, and edge infrastructure.
Integrate monitoring, logging, and alerting with security information and event management (SIEM) and network detection and response tools.
Lead or participate in security assessments, audits, and compliance reviews.
Perform root cause analysis for incidents and implement corrective and preventive actions.
Serve as a senior technical advisor, coordinating with cybersecurity, cloud, and operations teams.
What You Need to Succeed (Minimum Requirements):
Eight years of experience in network engineering, including enterprise or federal network environments.
Experience implementing Zero Trust network principles, segmentation, access control, and continuous monitoring.
Experience with centralized logging, vulnerability management, hardening, and incident support.
Experience with formal change control, documentation, compliance support, and operational continuity.
Ability to meet federal screening and suitability requirements prior to start.
Skills Required
- Eight years of experience in network engineering, including enterprise or federal network environments
- Experience implementing Zero Trust network principles, segmentation, and access control
- Experience with centralized logging, vulnerability management, hardening, and incident support
- Experience with formal change control, documentation, compliance support, and operational continuity
- Ability to meet federal screening and suitability requirements prior to start
What We Do
Spry is a certified Small Business headquartered in McLean, VA. Spry provides Enterprise, C4IT, Management, and Cyber Solutions to the federal government and commercial entities. Founded in 2001, Spry Methods was built on the foundation of combining industry knowledge with unmatched responsiveness to produce results for our customers. Our goal is to build a business dedicated to the maximization of value for all stakeholders starting with our employees, our customers, and our community. We recognize that talented and dedicated employees are our most valued assets and the foundation of our success. Guided by these principles, we have established an impressive track record of proven past performance serving our customers within the Commercial, Federal Civilian, DoD, and Intelligence Communities. A CMMI Level 3 certified and ISO 9001:2008 registered company, Spry is committed to quality and continuous improvement.
