About the role

What will you do at ECS Tech Inc?

Everforth ECS Federal is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support a

mission-focused federal IT program in Washington DC.

Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Join Everforth ECS Federal as a Senior Network Engineer helping strengthen

secure infrastructure for national security and law enforcement missions. This

role offers the opportunity to lead technical work, mentor teammates, improve

network reliability, and support an expanding mission environment focused on

secure, resilient, and high-performing operations.

The Senior Network Engineer will provide senior-level network engineering

support for complex enterprise, classified, and secure communications

environments. This role will support the design, implementation, configuration,

maintenance, troubleshooting, and optimization of secure network infrastructure

across mission-critical federal IT environments.

The Senior Network Engineer will lead network design activities, troubleshoot

complex network issues, support encrypted communications, document network

architecture, mentor junior technical staff, and support change management,

network security, segmentation, and operational improvements. This position will

also help strengthen network availability, performance, resilience, compliance,

and secure configuration management across the enterprise.

This role requires a hands-on senior technical professional with experience

supporting routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, encrypted communications, network

monitoring tools, segmentation strategies, and secure enterprise network

operations. The ideal candidate will bring strong technical judgment, clear

communication skills, documentation discipline, and the ability to collaborate

across systems, cybersecurity, service desk, engineering, and government

stakeholder teams in a classified or sensitive federal mission environment.

Qualifications

* Minimum 7 years network engineering experience
* Enterprise routing, switching, firewall, segmentation, and network security
experience
* Experience supporting secure or mission-critical environments.

Which skills does this role require?

Network EngineeringEnterprise RoutingSwitchingFirewall ManagementNetwork SegmentationVPNEncrypted CommunicationsNetwork MonitoringNetwork DesignNetwork TroubleshootingConfiguration ManagementNetwork SecurityTechnical MentorshipChange ManagementNetwork ArchitectureSecure InfrastructureNetwork EngineerFederal ITClassified EnvironmentsSecure CommunicationsFirewallsNetwork Monitoring ToolsNational SecurityLaw Enforcement MissionsResilient OperationsNetwork AvailabilityNetwork PerformanceComplianceSecure Configuration

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