Senior Cisco Network Engineer

Position Title & Code : Senior Cisco Network Engineer

Location : Washington DC, 20020

Project End Date : 09 / 30 / 2026 (With Possible extension to next fiscal year)

Responsibilities, Duties and Competencies

• Perform daily operations, maintenance, configuration, optimization, and upgrades of agency network infrastructure including Windows servers, Cisco ISE, Cisco ASA firewalls, routers, and switches.
• Monitor performance, capacity, and availability of LAN, WAN, telephony, and virtual systems.
• Diagnose and resolve incidents promptly to ensure continuity of services.
• Maintain network documentation, configuration standards, and change management processes.
• Implement and maintain information security and assurance requirements in all network activities.
• Support agency telephony systems, VoIP, voice switching, analog services, ACD, and IVR platforms.
• Enforce agency policies related to security, compliance, auditing, disaster recovery, and encryption.
• Use enterprise tools to analyze, monitor, troubleshoot, and manage network and system health including Cisco ISE, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco FMC, Cisco DNA, Microsoft Active Directory tools, Microsoft Intune, Tanium, Cayosoft, SSH, RDP, IDS and IPS appliances, firewalls, VMware vCenter, DHCP, DNS, and associated utilities
• 4+ years of experience required for all the above
• Active, current CCNP certification is required
• Desired Certifications and Technical Competencies
• Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, VMware, & Windows server administration preferred

Skill Assessment : (Please include the years of experience last used and brief description on skills below, information is to be submitted along with the resume)

Skill

Required / Desired

Amount of Experience

Years of Experience

Maintenance, configuration, optimization, and upgrades of infrastructure : Windows servers, Cisco ISE, Cisco ASA firewalls, routers, and switches

Required

4 years

Monitor performance, capacity, and availability of LAN, WAN, telephony, and virtual systems.

Required

4 years

Diagnose and resolve incidents promptly to ensure continuity of services.

Required

4 years

Maintain network documentation, configuration standards, and change management processes.

Required

4 years

Support telephony systems, VoIP, voice switching, analog services, ACD, and IVR platforms.

Required

4 years

Cisco ISE, Cisco Umbrella, Cisco FMC, Cisco DNA, Microsoft Active Directory tools, Microsoft Intune, Tanium, Cayosoft, SSH, RDP, IDS and IPS appliance

Required

4 years

firewalls, VMware vCenter, DHCP, DNS, and associated utilities

Required

4 years

Active, current CCNP certification

Required

Strong working knowledge of Active Directory, VMware, & Windows server administration

Highly desired