Senior Network Engineer (Cisco)

Location: Hybrid, Ashburn, Virginia, United States; scheduled and ad hoc travel within the United States may be required for up to 35% of the time.

Salary: $120,000–$140,000 per year

Company

hirify.global provides adaptive technology and engineering solutions supporting national security and critical civilian missions.

What you will do

• Engineer, configure, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, VPN, WLAN, routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers, and perimeter security controls.
• Provide Tier 2 and Tier 3 escalation support for outages, circuit degradation, and performance issues, including root cause analysis and vendor coordination.
• Design and maintain SD-WAN solutions using multiple network transports and application-aware routing policies.
• Support network hardware upgrades, SD-WAN transitions, cloud interconnects across AWS, Azure, and GCP, remote field sites, and infrastructure modernization.
• Maintain network diagrams, topology maps, asset inventories, operating procedures, and change-control records.
• Participate in 24/7/365 on-call coverage, emergency changes, critical incident response, project planning, and cross-functional escalation management.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical field with 10+ years of network engineering experience, or 14+ years of network engineering experience without a bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 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 and firewall technologies, including the ability to implement firewall changes.
• Hands-on experience with SDN technologies such as Cisco ACI or VMware NSX, plus strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Ability to successfully receive a DHS Customs and Border Protection background check and Public Trust clearance.

Nice to have

• Active CBP BI or CBP BI completed within the past three years.
• CCNA or CCNP certification.
• Experience with Zero Trust, Zscaler, Palo Alto, Cisco SD-WAN, Cisco HyperFlex, Cisco Stealthwatch, Cisco ACI, or Cisco Firepower.
• Previous CBP, DHS, or Department of War experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Hybrid work arrangement based in Ashburn, Virginia.
• Participation in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation for critical incidents.
• Culture centered on helpfulness, honesty, humility, continuous improvement, and a strong work ethic.
• Opportunity to support national security and critical civilian missions.