Network Engineer (Cisco)

Location: Hybrid in Ashburn, Virginia, United States; travel within the United States may be required up to 35% of the time.

Salary: $90,000–$110,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global supports national security and critical civilian missions through technology integration and defense-focused services.

What you will do

• Engineer, install, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot WAN, LAN, VPN, WLAN, and perimeter security infrastructure.
• Configure and support enterprise switches, routers, firewalls, VPN gateways, load balancers, and network logging baselines.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalation support for outages, circuit degradation, and performance issues, including root cause analysis and vendor coordination.
• Support network hardware upgrades, SD-WAN transitions, cloud interconnects, remote field sites, and infrastructure modernization.
• Maintain network diagrams, topology maps, asset inventories, standard operating procedures, and change-control tickets.
• Coordinate engineering deliverables with program and project managers and participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field with 5+ years of network engineering experience, or 8+ years of experience without a bachelor’s degree.
• At least 5 years of verifiable network engineering experience supporting a large, complex federal agency.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VPNs, and VLANs.
• Expertise with Cisco technologies and firewall technologies.
• Ability to obtain a DHS Customs and Border Protection background investigation and Public Trust clearance.
• Ability to work in a hybrid Ashburn, Virginia role and travel within the United States up to 35% of the time.

Nice to have

• Experience with Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco HyperFlex, Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure, or Palo Alto firewalls.
• CCNA, CCNP Routing and Switching, JNCIP, or comparable active industry certifications.
• Previous CBP background investigation within the past four years.
• Intermediate skills in at least three of the preferred technologies.

Culture & Benefits

• Regular employment with a hybrid workplace.
• Participation in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation.
• Culture emphasizing collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, and mission focus.
• Work supporting national security and critical civilian missions.