Network Engineer

Location: Columbia, SC 29208
Work Arrangement: 100% Onsite
Duration: 6 Months

Candidate Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience.
• Must be able to participate in an on-call rotation and occasional after-hours maintenance/incident response. On-campus response may be required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor, maintain, and support enterprise wired and wireless network infrastructure, including switching, routing, and connectivity services.
• Configure, monitor, and troubleshoot Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, and Fortinet network devices.
• Diagnose network connectivity, performance, and security issues through monitoring, analysis, root-cause investigation, and field troubleshooting.
• Install and deploy network equipment, including configuring, racking, stacking, cabling, and testing switches.
• Support routing technologies including OSPF, BGP, VLANs, spanning tree, and high-availability architectures.
• Support network security technologies including firewalls, VPNs, access controls, and related security controls.
• Perform network upgrades, patching, configuration changes, maintenance, and performance optimization.
• Maintain network diagrams, operational documentation, incident records, and runbooks.
• Coordinate with network engineering, architecture, security, infrastructure teams, vendors, and stakeholders.
• Participate in incident response, escalation, on-call support, and service restoration activities.

Required Skills

• 2+ years enterprise networking experience with switching, routing, wireless networking, and TCP/IP.
• 2+ years configuring, monitoring, and troubleshooting Cisco, Juniper, Aruba, AND Fortinet network devices.
• 2+ years diagnosing and resolving network connectivity, performance, and security-related issues.
• 2+ years network security experience involving firewalls, VPNs, access controls, and security best practices.
• 2+ years installing and supporting network infrastructure, including hands-on racking, stacking, cabling, and testing.
• 2+ years maintaining technical documentation, network diagrams, and operational records.
• 2+ years working with OSPF, BGP, VLANs, spanning tree, and high-availability architectures.

Preferred Skills

• Large-scale enterprise or higher education network experience.
• Wireless network administration and troubleshooting in dense-user environments.
• Firewalls, VPNs, NAC, and multi-factor authentication solutions.
• Network monitoring, logging, and performance management tools.
• Network automation or scripting using Python, Ansible, and APIs.
• Network upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle replacement projects.
• ITIL-based incident, problem, and change management environments.
• Experience mentoring junior technical staff and providing technical leadership during operational incidents.

Preferred Certifications

CCNA, CCNP, JNCIA, JNCIS/JNCIP, ACNT, ACSA, ACMA, FCA, or FCP