Role: Sr Network Engineer
Location: Hyattsville, MD and Arlington, VA and Washington, DC (travel required within MD/VA/DC)
Duration: 6 months contract
Job ID: WMATA Senior Network Engineer - 809046
Client: WMATA
Hybrid position, Must be local to DMV area and must be available for F2F interview.
12+ years of experience required
CCNP Enterprise certification required
Description:
Position requires extensive knowledge of the telecommunication industry, network architectures, engineering and deployment support for Vendor provided transport services and integration into the WMATA data network.
WMATA is looking for a Network Engineer responsible for the design, governance, and continuous evolution of WMATA's enterprise network architecture across LAN, WAN, SD-WAN, wireless, firewall, load-balancing, and network security domains.
Responsibilities:
- Serve as the technical authority for all network architecture decisions, including routing, segmentation, firewall architecture, load-balancing architecture, security integration, traffic engineering, and resiliency design.
- Develop, maintain, and continuously refine network architecture artifacts, including:
- High-level and low-level network designs (HLDs/LLDs)
- Network segmentation models supporting IT/OT convergence
- Routing architectures (BGP, OSPF, SD-WAN) and failover design
- Firewall security zone models and policy framework architecture
- Load-balancing and application delivery architecture designs
- Define and enforce network standards and configuration baselines to ensure consistency, security, availability, performance, and operational supportability across all environments.
- Establish architecture standards for firewalls, VPNs, ADC/load-balancing platforms, network segmentation, high-availability services, and cloud connectivity.
- Support lifecycle and capacity planning, including:
- Hardware/software EOL/EOS tracking
- Throughput forecasting and scalability planning
- Network modernization roadmap development
- Firewall and load-balancer lifecycle planning
- Coordinate network architecture alignment with NFE Solution implementation and enterprise infrastructure environments.
- Review and approve firewall segmentation strategies, security zone designs, routing architectures, application traffic flows, and load-balancing configurations to ensure alignment with enterprise architecture standards.
- Support CCB activities by reviewing and approving all network-related changes impacting architecture, security, availability, performance, or resiliency.
- Evaluate and incorporate OEM/vendor solutions and industry best practices for routing, switching, wireless infrastructure, firewalls, load balancing, network security, and cloud networking into the enterprise network environment.
- Provide architectural oversight for integration of monitoring, telemetry, observability, and network management platforms to ensure operational visibility and supportability of all network services.
Required Skills
- Understanding network infrastructure and protocols (proprietary, IMS, and IP), latest LAN/WAN/ISP protocols (MPLS, BGP, SIP),
- Understanding the latest LAN/WAN/ISP protocols (MPLS, BGP, SIP), latest-generation routers, telecommunications switches
- Strong client skills with the demonstrated ability to communicate effectively throughout all levels of an organization.
- Exceptional written skills, including authoring client communications, expository project documents (e.g., Statements of Work), and strategic analyse
- Proficiency in formal project management methods, including internal documentation and external communications
- First-hand experience designing CISCO network applications. differences between commonly used applications and technologies
- First-hand experience designing, implementing, and managing e911 system deployments in large (500 + people) organizations
- First-hand experience in wireless technical development efforts and ability to speak to the merits of and differences between commonly used applicant
- First-hand oversight experience on Voice over IP technical development efforts and ability to speak to merits of, and differences between technology
- CCNP Enterprise or equivalent
Regards
Kanchan Illa
CSZNet, Inc.
Direct: 202-903-0969
Email: kanchan.illa@csznet.com