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Network Engineer

Actalent

Posted Friday, July 25, 2025

Posting ID: JP-005435848

Annapolis, MD
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Job Title: Network Engineer


Job Description

As a Network Engineer, you will play a crucial role in projects with moderate to highly complex environments, utilizing high availability concepts to ensure seamless network operations. You will develop and implement project plans within budgetary constraints and collaborate with the Engineering team to create innovative technical design solutions.


Responsibilities

  • Develop and implement project plans within budgetary and resource constraints.
  • Collaborate with the Engineering team to develop technical design solutions.
  • Capture, analyze, decompose, and create requirements for network systems, products, and subsystems of moderate complexity.
  • Design, develop, document, test, and maintain network systems ranging from straightforward to moderately complex, focusing on customer needs and business requirements.
  • Author, review, and maintain documentation during all phases of the system design life cycle, including Project Plans, Estimates, Requirements Documentation, Operational Scenarios, Design Documentation, and Sys Acceptance Test Plans.
  • Apply Security/Cybersecurity methodologies to network and systems design to provide secure services.
  • Configure and install various network devices and services, such as routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, VPN, QoS, and ACL.
  • Provide post-fielding support, resolving operational issues involving L2 and L3 in a multi-routing network infrastructure.

Essential Skills

  • Systems development, requirements development, system design, network design.
  • Experience with Cisco hardware and related Infrastructure/Network environments.
  • Designing, planning, and implementing LAN-WANs using industry-standard technologies.
  • Understanding of IP Networks, security, and network management concepts.
  • Demonstrated knowledge in TCP/IP, routing (BGP, OSPF), L2 switching (VLANs, STP, 802.1Q), tunneling/encapsulation mechanisms (GRE, VPN), troubleshooting, L1 fiber optics, optic modules, RJ-45, L3 packet and protocol inspection concepts.
  • Ability to read and interpret packet captures, TCPDUMP.
  • Setup a monitor session (SPAN), VOIP, telephony.

Additional Skills & Qualifications

  • Active CCNA or CCNP certification, CompTIA Network+, JNCIA, PCNSE.
  • Understanding of formal configuration management processes.
  • Working knowledge of automation and configuration management leveraging tools like Ansible.
  • Demonstrated understanding of project life cycle support, including requirements development, analysis, design, test, implementation, and post-fielding support.
  • Knowledge of VoIP Telephony and SIP with experience in voice network design, including SIP and QOS configurations.
  • Ability to take the initiative in driving technical discussions with relevant parties.
  • Desirable knowledge of the Airport and Air Transport Industry domain.

Work Environment

You will work in a team environment, sometimes independently, engaging in lab work. The role involves high reliability network systems, where you will have the opportunity to learn a communication network system and build up to product ownership. The network engineer will work onsite for a week in a collaborative atmosphere with occasional remote work capabilities. Dress code is business casual.


Compensation:$180000

Contact Information

Email: christwright@actalentservices.com

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.
Salesforce Developer
Hybrid
Planning
Operations
Teamwork
Automation
Cyber Security
Innovation
Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
Virtual Private Networks (VPN)
Firewall
Network Switches
Systems Design
Technical Design
Project Management Life Cycle
Systems Development Life Cycle
Network Routing
Configuration Management
CompTIA Network+
Local Area Networks
Session Initiation Protocols
Virtual Local Area Network (VLAN)
TCP/IP
Cisco Certified Network Associate
Network Engineering
Open Shortest Path First (OSPF)
Network Management
Design Documentation
Fiber Optics
Cisco Certified Network Professional
Network Planning And Design
Border Gateway Protocol
Network Quality Of Service (QoS)
IEEE 802.1Q
Internet Protocols Suite
Telecommunications Networks
Juniper Networks Certified Internet Associate
Cisco Hardwares

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