Required Qualifications
• Candidates must be U.S. citizens.
• Candidates must be willing and able to work as Ashburn W-2 employees. 1099 and
corp-to-corp arrangements are not permitted for these roles.
• DHS EOD / suitability is required for clerance.
• 10+ years of experience designing, deploying, troubleshooting, and optimizing
Wireless LAN systems for Government or similarly complex enterprise
environments.
• Experience addressing Radio Frequency (RF) shared-medium challenges.
• Experience ensuring robust wireless network performance and implementing
security best practices aligned to Federal standards.
• Subject Matter Expert-level experience with Cisco wireless technologies, including
Cisco ISE, Cisco MSE, Wireless LAN Controllers, Cisco Prime, and Cisco
AnyConnect.
• Experience implementing secure BYOD and guest wireless solutions while
maintaining production network security.
• Experience applying federal information security policies, principles, and practices
to secure network operations.
• Experience using tools such as ForeScout, Cisco ISE, Stealthwatch/Cisco Secure
Network Analytics, and Splunk.
• Experience maintaining continuous network visibility and enforcing network security
measures.
• Advanced network engineering experience designing, implementing, and managing
complex LAN, WAN, and wireless systems.
• Experience with network performance optimization, troubleshooting, and advanced
security protocol integration.
• Ability to support mission-critical Government operations.
Preferred / Strongly Desired Qualifications
• Active Cisco certification strongly preferred, such as CCNP Security, CCIE Security,
CCIE Wireless, CCIE Data Center, or comparable experience.
• Experience with Cisco Nexus, IOS, FlexPod, Corelight NDR, IDS/IPS, firewalls, and
network security tools.
• Experience with Cisco Prime, SolarWinds Orion, or comparable configuration
management tools.
• Experience with Zero Trust Network Access, SASE, network segmentation, and
micro-segmentation.
• Prior DHS, DOD / DOW, or federal network security engineering experience
Primary Responsibilities
• Design, deploy, troubleshoot, and optimize secure wireless LAN solutions.
• Support Cisco wireless, Cisco ISE, MSE, WLC, Prime, and AnyConnect
environments.
• Implement secure guest wireless and BYOD solutions.
• Integrate network security tools to support visibility, monitoring, access control, and
enforcement.
• Troubleshoot complex LAN, WAN, and wireless issues.
• Support network performance, availability, and security for mission-critical
environments.
• Develop and review secure network configurations, diagrams, procedures, and
technical documentation.
• Support enterprise architecture design reviews, engineering meetings, change
management, and security posture improvement efforts.
Our client is seeking a Network Engineer Level III to support a federal cybersecurity
architecture opportunity. This Key Personnel role will provide senior wireless, network, and
security engineering expertise with emphasis on Cisco wireless infrastructure, secure
network operations, continuous visibility, security product integration, and advanced
enterprise network engineering for a proposal opportunity.
Ashburn Consulting (“Ashburn”) is incorporated in Virginia and was founded in 2002 with a mission to solve client IT challenges with technology. Ashburn Consulting is a minority-owned small business (certified by the National Minority Supplier Development Council) and ISO 9001:2015 certified for our Quality Management System (QMS), to give clients high confidence in our repeatable processes and high-quality service delivery approach. With offices in Leesburg, VA and Bethesda, MD, and supporting local and federal government, educational, and commercial clients for two decades, Ashburn Consulting’s 60+ full time consulting professionals average 20+ years of technical experience in large-scale environments in the public sector, as well as backgrounds that encompass the full technology life cycle: analysis, design, planning, development, implementation, and ongoing support. This, combined with ongoing training and certification in the latest technologies collectively, Ashburn staff hold 100+ relevant IT certifications – allows us to engineer optimized, comprehensive solutions. Our goal is to establish long-term client and partner relationships where trust and value are established for assisting customers navigate business challenges and initiatives while leveraging our people to achieve their mission or business objectives.