Network Engineer (W2 only)

Network Engineer

Northborough, MA

6 months contract-to-hire

Must-to-Have Skills:

5-7 years of experience with the following skills

1. Cisco Routing & Switching Infrastructure
2. Firewall (Palo Alto / Fortinet / Cisco)
3. Data Center Support

Nice-to-Have:

• NERC CIP Standards
• Experience working for Energy or Utility clients

Essentials for the Job:

Firewall Administration & Security Policy Management

Demonstrated ability to manage enterprise-grade firewalls, including rule creation, policy optimization, change control, and proactive security hardening.

Routing & Switching Expertise

Strong understanding of routing protocols, switching technologies, VLANs, and network segmentation with hands-on experience supporting multi-site network environments.

Application Delivery & Load Balancing Knowledge

Experience configuring, tuning, and troubleshooting application delivery platforms, including traffic distribution, health monitoring, and high-availability configurations.

Vulnerability Assessment & Network Scanning

Ability to run and analyze network vulnerability scans, interpret results, prioritize risk, and work with teams to remediate findings.

Log Management & Monitoring Proficiency

Skilled in configuring and monitoring centralized log aggregation systems, creating alerts, and using log data for diagnostics and incident response.

Configuration Backup & Recovery Processes

Familiar with maintaining secure network device backups, automated collection workflows, version

management, and restoration procedures.

Core Networking Fundamentals

Solid understanding of TCP/IP, Routing Protocols, DNS, DHCP, SNMP, VPN technologies, and general network security best practices.

Troubleshooting & Diagnostic Skills

Ability to analyze traffic flows, logs, performance metrics, and packet captures to identify root causes and ensure network stability.

Documentation & Process Discipline

Capable of creating and maintaining network diagrams, configuration baselines, operating procedures, and change documentation.

Collaboration & Communication

Able to work closely with security, infrastructure, and application teams, translating technical issues into actionable information for stakeholders.

Systems installation and removal

Installs or removes system components using supplied installation instructions and tools. Conducts standard tests and contributes to investigations of problems and faults - documents results in accordance with agreed procedures.

Configuration management

Applies tools, techniques and processes to administer, track, log, report on and correct configuration items, components and changes. Assists with audits to check the accuracy of the information and undertakes any necessary corrective action under direction.

Testing

Designs test cases, creates test scripts and test data, and automates repeatable tasks. Executes & records manual and automation.

Responsibilities:

• Position requires 25% travel on monthly basis by vehicle with clean license
• Support of remote sites including data centers with ability to provide smart hands support for infrastructure and network equipment
• Manage and maintain enterprise-grade network firewalls, including rule creation, policy reviews, and security hardening.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot routing and switching infrastructure within a multi-site environment.
• Administer and optimize application delivery and traffic-balancing platforms to ensure high availability and performance.
• Perform network vulnerability assessments and port-scanning activities to identify and remediate security risks.
• Oversee centralized log collection, monitoring, and alerting systems to support operational visibility and incident response.
• Maintain and report on security patching on all Firewalls, Routers, Switches, applications for backups, syslog, monitoring and appliances in the Network, within required time frames.
• Manage secure network backup processes, including automated configurations, validation, and restoration procedures.
• Participates in 24x7 on call rotation, providing application and hardware support.