| Skill | Required | Amount of Experience | Experience |
| Considerable knowledge and hands-on working experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points. | Required | 8 | |
| Considerable hands-on working experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS. | Required | 8 | |
| Demonstrated and hands-on ability to design, install and troubleshoot local-area and wide-area enterprise networks. | Required | 8 | |
| Considerable direct hands-on experience engineering and design experience in networking industry required. | Required | 8 | |
| Industry standard networking certification (example: Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA- Junos, etc.) | Required | | |
| In-depth experience designing installing and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks. | Required | 8 | |
| Experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards. | Required | 8 | |
| Experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance. | Required | 8 | |
| Experience performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery. | Required | 8 | |
| Experience creating network diagrams using industry standard tools such as Visio, etc. | Required | 8 | |
| Experience with networking features and protocols such as: ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, Etherchannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc | Required | 8 | |