Senior Network Engineer (Cisco)

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

Salary: $120,000–$140,000 per year.

Company

hirify.global delivers adaptive technology and network solutions supporting national security and critical civilian missions.

What you will do

• Engineer, configure, deploy, maintain, and troubleshoot enterprise WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, VPN, WLAN, routers, switches, firewalls, VPN gateways, load balancers, and perimeter security controls.
• Provide Tier 2/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 transports, application-aware routing, network virtualization, and predefined 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, inventory databases, standard operating procedures, and change-control documentation.
• Participate in a 24/7/365 on-call rotation and coordinate emergency changes, incident reporting, and project deliverables with program and project managers.

Requirements

• 10+ years of network engineering experience with a bachelor’s degree, or 14+ years without a bachelor’s degree.
• At least 10 years supporting a large, complex federal agency, with strong knowledge of TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VPNs, and VLANs.
• Expertise with Cisco and firewall technologies, including the ability to perform firewall changes.
• Hands-on experience with SDN technologies such as Cisco ACI or VMware NSX, plus strong troubleshooting and analytical skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, computer science, engineering, networking and telecommunications, or a related technical field, unless the experience alternative applies.
• Ability to successfully receive a DHS Customs and Border Protection background check and Public Trust clearance.

Nice to have

• Active CBP BI or a 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 experience, followed by DHS or Department of War experience.

Culture & Benefits

• Employee-focused culture guided by the 6Hs: Happy, Helpful, Honest, Humble, Hungry, and Hustle.
• Emphasis on collaboration, integrity, continuous improvement, mutual respect, and mission-focused delivery.
• Regular hybrid work arrangement with on-call responsibilities for critical network incidents.
• Ability to sit for extended periods may be required.