Senior Network Engineer - Data Center

Back Senior Network Engineer - Data Center Quadtec Solutions, Inc Ashburn, VA, United States 2 days ago Discuss this with your agent Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT Copy prompt Apply on the employer's site Prepare application Draft this with your agent Open in Claude Open in ChatGPT Copy prompt Role details Contract type Permanent contract Employment type Full-time (> 32 hours) Experience level Expert Experience required 3 years minimum Working hours Shift work Job source the employer's site Tech stack Border Gateway Protocol System Configuration Data Centers Data Center Infrastructure Management (CIM) Trunking Networking Hardware IPv4 Network Layer Network Control Network Diagrams Network Planning and Design Network Monitoring +8 more Routing Network Segmentation Network Service Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) TCP/IP Virtual Local Area Networks Data Center Networking Information Technology Job description The Senior Data Center Network Engineer is responsible for the hands-on configuration, implementation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and lifecycle support of enterprise routing and switching infrastructure within an onsite Internet Data Center environment., The position’s primary responsibility is network engineering: maintaining reliable Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, implementing approved network changes, resolving complex incidents, supporting upgrades and migrations, and protecting network availability and performance. The engineer must be comfortable working directly with production routers, switches, interfaces, routing protocols, VLANs, trunks, circuits, and related network services. Requirements Minimum of 10 years of hands-on routing and switching experience in enterprise, service-provider, government, or similarly complex production networks. \n Demonstrated experience independently configuring, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production routers and switches. \n Strong knowledge of: \n TCP/IP and IPv4 networking \n Layer 2 switching, VLANs, trunking, and redundancy \n Layer 3 routing and route selection \n BGP and OSPF \n Network segmentation and resilient network design \n Network monitoring and diagnostic techniques \n Experience planning and executing production network changes, maintenance activities, upgrades, migrations, and cutovers. \n Experience troubleshooting complex connectivity and performance issues across network devices, carrier circuits, and physical infrastructure. \n At least three contiguous years of hands-on experience working in an IDC or comparable data-center environment. \n Practical experience with data-center physical infrastructure, including equipment installation, rack-level work, fiber and copper cabling, patch panels, transceivers, and cross-connects. \n Working experience with a DCIM platform, including validating and maintaining equipment, rack, port, cable, or asset records. \n Experience with incident, problem, and change-management processes and associated ticket documentation. \n Ability to produce accurate network diagrams, configuration records, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and as-built documentation. \n Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written-communication, and stakeholder-coordination skills. \n Ability to work independently onsite while collaborating effectively with distributed engineering and operations teams. \n U.S. citizenship. \n Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance. \n Ability and willingness to work onsite Monday through Friday in Ashburn, Virginia for the duration of the engagement. \n Ability to support scheduled evening, overnight, or weekend maintenance and participate in an on-call rotation when required. \n, * Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Network Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field. Benefits & conditions Analyze and resolve routing, switching, packet-loss, latency, reachability, convergence, interface, and circuit-related problems. \n Use command-line, monitoring, logging, and diagnostic tools to isolate faults across physical, data-link, network, and transport layers. \n Review existing configurations, identify operational risks or inconsistencies, and recommend practical corrective actions. \n Develop and execute pre-change checks, implementation steps, rollback procedures, and post-change validation. \n Support network moves, adds, changes, migrations, upgrades, hardware refreshes, and decommissioning activities. \n Install and validate software or firmware upgrades in accordance with approved change-management procedures. \n Monitor network availability, utilization, error conditions, and performance trends; proactively address conditions that could affect service. \n Support redundancy, resiliency, and failover testing for network paths and critical connectivity. \n Maintain current network diagrams, configuration records, interface assignments, IP-addressing information, and as-built documentation. \n \n Incident,