CCIE Senior Network Engineer

CCIE Senior Network Engineer
Vienna, VA
Contract-to-Hire
$70 to $80 per hour contract with a conversion salary of $145K to $155K annually

Summary
Seeking a CCIE-caliber Senior Network Engineer to serve as a hands-on technical authority focused on routing and switching design, implementation, and complex troubleshooting. This role owns enterprise and data center network initiatives end-to-end, delivering resilient, secure, and scalable architectures aligned to business and compliance requirements.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement enterprise, data center, and disaster recovery network solutions.
• Architect and deploy highly available routing and switching environments (BGP, OSPF, ECMP, segmentation).
• Lead complex troubleshooting efforts using packet capture and protocol analysis.
• Produce HLD/LLD documentation and oversee implementation validation.
• Collaborate with security, infrastructure, and cloud teams to ensure cohesive designs.
• Serve as senior escalation point and mentor to engineering teams.
• Ensure alignment with security frameworks such as NIST 800-53.

• 8+ years of hands-on network engineering with deep routing and switching expertise.
• Experience supporting mission-critical enterprise and data center environments.

• CCIE Routing & Switching certification (required or equivalent expert-level experience).
• Azure or AWS networking certification (preferred).

• Expert BGP and OSPF design and troubleshooting.
• Cisco IOS/XE, Nexus, and ACI fabrics .
• Leaf-spine data center architecture and segmentation.
• Firewall integration (e.g., Palo Alto).
• SD-WAN (e.g., Prisma or similar).
• Cisco Client / network access control.
• Network monitoring and packet analysis.

• Hybrid cloud networking experience.

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