Senior Network Engineer :: Mechanicsville, VA (Onsite) at ARK Solutions, Inc. in Mechanicsville, VA
- Company: ARK Solutions, Inc.
- Location: Mechanicsville, VA
- Posted: Sep 23, 2026
- Type: Full-time
- Experience: 8+ years
Overview
Senior Network Engineer Duration: 8+ months | Location: Onsite at Mechanicsville, VA Seeking for an Senior Network Engineer to enhance and support IT Network infrastructure. The role involves daily activities related to support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of network-relate…
Job description
- Senior Network Engineer
- Duration: 8+ months | Location: Onsite at Mechanicsville, VA
- Seeking for an Senior Network Engineer to enhance and support IT Network infrastructure. The role involves daily activities related to support, documentation, research, analysis, and implementation of network-related infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Manage and troubleshoot enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, wireless access points, and load balancers.
- Identify and diagnose system problems using line monitors, diagnostic software, and test equipment.
- Collaborate with IT infrastructure suppliers and stakeholders to ensure accurate and up-to-date network configurations.
- Assist in troubleshooting and resolving network issues affecting application performance and uptime.
- Oversee installation, documentation, and upgrades of data network infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cloud and DevSecOps teams to optimize hybrid connectivity and SDWAN configurations.
- Provide documentation, network architecture topology diagrams, IP schemes, firewall rules, and access controls as needed.
- Work independently on assigned projects.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience with enterprise routers, switches, VPN concentrators, firewalls, and wireless access points.
- 8+ years of experience setting up, configuring, upgrading, managing, and troubleshooting routers/switches, and WAPS.
- 8+ years of experience designing, installing, and troubleshooting local-area and wide-area enterprise networks.
- Industry-standard networking certification (e.g., Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIA-Junos).
- 8+ years of experience monitoring IT environments for compliance with information security, architecture policies, and standards.
- 8+ years of experience creating repeatable, reliable, scalable network architectures with fault tolerance.
- 8+ years of experience in performance tuning, monitoring systems, statistics/metrics collection, and disaster recovery.
- 8+ years of experience creating network diagrams using industry-standard tools such as Visio.
- 8+ years of experience with networking features and protocols such as ARP, CDP, EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VTP, EtherChannel, HSRP, QoS, multicast, IPsec, etc.
- 3+ years of experience working with SDWAN (desired).
- 3+ years of experience with network topology related to Cloud (desired).
- 3+ years of familiarity and experience working with cloud networking (desired).
Skills
Required
- Enterprise routers
- Switches
- VPN concentrators
- Firewalls
- Wireless access points
- Load balancers
- Network troubleshooting
- Network configuration
- Network design
- Network monitoring
- Network security
- Network architecture
Preferred
- SDWAN
- Cloud networking
- Cloud topology