Job Description
Tekfortune is a fast-growing consulting firm specialized in permanent, contract & project-based staffing services for world s leading organizations in a broad range of industries. In this quickly changing economic landscape, virtual recruiting and remote work are critical for the future of work. To support the active project demands and skills gaps, our staffing experts can help you find the best job for you.
Candidates must meet all the following requirements:
Please do not submit candidates unless all required information is included.
Every submittal must include:
Position Overview
Client is seeking a Senior Network Engineer specializing in Routing & Switching to engineer, implement, and sustain enterprise network infrastructure across a large, distributed environment.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role with direct responsibility for the routed and switched network core. The engineer will design and implement network changes, troubleshoot complex issues, and serve as a senior escalation point for routing, switching, transport, and connectivity problems.
The ideal candidate is comfortable independently translating requirements into technical designs, implementing those designs in production, validating performance, and resolving complex network issues across multiple technologies and vendors.
Primary Responsibilities
Routing & Switching Engineering
Develop and maintain technical and operational documentation, including:
Scope & Impact
Technical Impact
Contributes to significant project milestones and recommends technical solutions and improvements that directly affect program outcomes.
Complexity
Troubleshoots and resolves complex networking problems requiring in-depth technical analysis and evaluation across multiple technologies and network layers.
Independence
Works under general direction while exercising significant independent judgment regarding technical design, troubleshooting, and implementation approaches.
Communication
Clearly communicates technical designs, recommendations, risks, issues, and implementation status to engineering leadership, peer teams, and stakeholders.
Required Qualifications
Preferred Qualifications
For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at
- Position: Network Engineer
- Contract Length: Through 2032
- Location: 100% onsite at Fort Meade with 1 telework day in the future
- Schedule: Typically Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- There may be an alternative schedule available like 7:00 AM 3:00 PM or 8:00 AM to 4:00 PM
- Start Date: Approximately 2 to 3 weeks after offer acceptance
Candidates must meet all the following requirements:
- Active Secret clearance
- Active IAT Level II or IAT Level III certification
- 6 - 12 years of relevant experience
Please do not submit candidates unless all required information is included.
Every submittal must include:
- A copy of the candidate's active IAT Level II or IAT Level III certification
Position Overview
Client is seeking a Senior Network Engineer specializing in Routing & Switching to engineer, implement, and sustain enterprise network infrastructure across a large, distributed environment.
This is a hands-on senior engineering role with direct responsibility for the routed and switched network core. The engineer will design and implement network changes, troubleshoot complex issues, and serve as a senior escalation point for routing, switching, transport, and connectivity problems.
The ideal candidate is comfortable independently translating requirements into technical designs, implementing those designs in production, validating performance, and resolving complex network issues across multiple technologies and vendors.
Routing & Switching Engineering
- Engineer, configure, and implement enterprise routing and switching infrastructure across core, distribution, access, and WAN edge environments.
- Design and implement routing policies using BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, and static routing, including:
- Route redistribution
- Route filtering and summarization
- Path selection
- Convergence tuning
- Engineer Layer 2 infrastructure, including:
- VLAN architecture
- Spanning Tree Protocol
- Link aggregation
- Trunking
- Loop prevention
- Implement and maintain VRFs, MPLS/VPN services, tunneling, multicast, QoS, NAT, and high-availability solutions, including HSRP/VRRP and redundant uplink architectures.
- Develop network architecture specifications and recommend technologies that improve existing network capabilities.
- Perform installation, configuration, modification, testing, and maintenance of network equipment.
- Support network hardware refreshes and software/firmware lifecycle upgrades.
- Baseline and optimize network performance, including latency, throughput, utilization, convergence, and error rates.
- Develop detailed implementation plans, test procedures, validation steps, rollback procedures, and change documentation.
- Execute network changes during approved production maintenance windows.
- Provide senior-level troubleshooting and escalation support for complex routing, switching, transport, and connectivity issues.
- Perform packet-level and protocol-level analysis to isolate issues across network, system, and application boundaries.
- Support capacity planning, configuration standardization, and compliance with approved network baselines and security-hardening requirements.
- Partner with network architecture, cybersecurity, operations, and project teams to resolve technical issues and deliver network changes from design through implementation.
Develop and maintain technical and operational documentation, including:
- Logical and physical network diagrams
- Routing designs and routing policy standards
- IP addressing plans
- Device configuration standards and baselines
- Implementation, testing, and rollback plans
- Port, protocol, and service requirements
- Troubleshooting guides and SOPs
- As-built documentation
- Operational handoff documentation
Technical Impact
Contributes to significant project milestones and recommends technical solutions and improvements that directly affect program outcomes.
Complexity
Troubleshoots and resolves complex networking problems requiring in-depth technical analysis and evaluation across multiple technologies and network layers.
Independence
Works under general direction while exercising significant independent judgment regarding technical design, troubleshooting, and implementation approaches.
Communication
Clearly communicates technical designs, recommendations, risks, issues, and implementation status to engineering leadership, peer teams, and stakeholders.
- Bachelor's degree with 8+ years of relevant experience, or Master's degree with 6+ years of relevant experience.
- Additional experience, education, and technical training may be considered in lieu of a degree.
- Significant hands-on experience engineering, implementing, and troubleshooting enterprise routing and switching environments at scale.
- Strong working knowledge of:
- TCP/IP and subnetting
- BGP
- OSPF
- EIGRP
- VLANs
- Spanning Tree
- Link aggregation
- VRFs
- Multicast
- QoS
- NAT
- High-availability network design
- Experience installing and configuring network hardware, performing software upgrades, and supporting network lifecycle refreshes.
- Experience developing implementation plans, test procedures, validation steps, and rollback plans for production changes.
- Demonstrated troubleshooting ability using packet captures and protocol analysis.
- Experience supporting multi-vendor enterprise network environments.
- Hands-on experience with one or more of the following:
- Cisco
- Aruba
- Palo Alto
- Dell
- Infoblox
- Brocade
- Experience developing network diagrams, technical designs, and procedures using Visio, PowerPoint, or similar tools.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Current IAT Level II certification or higher, such as Security+ CE.
- Active DoD Secret clearance.
- Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Enterprise or equivalent certification.
- Experience supporting enterprise network modernization, migration, transformation, or large-scale integration efforts.
- Experience with software-defined networking, SD-WAN, or SD-Access, including Cisco Catalyst Center/DNA Center.
- Experience with network segmentation, access control, and identity-based networking.
- Experience integrating enterprise networks with cloud environments, including hybrid connectivity and secure cloud routing.
- Experience with network automation using:
- Python
- Ansible
- Infrastructure-as-Code approaches
- Experience implementing DISA STIGs, vulnerability remediation, and network-device configuration hardening.
- Experience with Jira, Confluence, or similar project and knowledge-management tools.
For more information and other jobs available please contact our recruitment team at
careers@tekfortune.com
. To view all the jobs available in the USA and Asia please visit our website at https://www.tekfortune.com/careers/.Numbers & Facts
| Location | Fort Meade, MD |
| Industry | Computer Software |
| Company Size | 20 to 49 employees |
| Year Founded | 2014 |
| Website | http://www.tekfortune.com/ |
About Company
Tekfortune is a software solutions company providing project development and staff augmentation services to companies in various industries including Healthcare, Banking, Finance, Telecommunication and Aviation.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
Tekfortune Inc delivers solutions to a wide variety of organizations of various sizes and industries. Our clients include mid-market to Fortune 1000 companies spanning across industries such as: Insurance, Financial, Pharmaceutical, Manufacturing, Retail and many others.
In Tekfortune Inc, we are offering selection of services and solutions at very reasonable rates. With years of experience in the placement and recruitment Industry and over time we have acquired the knowledge essential to comprehend the exact need and dependence on customers. Therefore we provide the customers the best and also the brightest candidates for vacancies. Moreover, by understanding the working interest of customers who is able to place them within the companies where they are able to get maximum opportunity for professional growth.
Tekfortune Inc has a strong emphasis on quality. Its goal would be to achieve client satisfaction by looking into making deliveries satisfaction of customer's business needs. Our ability to quickly identify and effectively employ proven fundamental principles, techniques and resources yields highly desirable results for our clients.
We understand that each industry and organization share a level of uniqueness that requires a tailored approach in order to deliver specific solutions. Such factors as client culture, industry regulations, organizational maturity, financial health and many more items may impact our approach to delivering client solutions.
Having served a wide variety of clients has provided Tekfortune the ability to build subject matter expertise across numerous industries. Our industry expertise combined with our specialized knowledge of Business Process Improvement, Requirements Management and Program & Project Management provides a powerful combination and a tremendous value to our clients.
We are run by a group of industry experts who have decades of experience in delivering custom solutions to our clients.
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