Network Engineer II (Government)
Sterling, Virginia
Job Description:
This position requires office presence of a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted.
AT&T Global Public Sector is a trusted provider of secure, IP enabled, cloud-based, network solutions and professional services to the Federal Government. We are dedicated to recruiting, developing and empowering a diverse, high-performing workforce that is passionate about what they do, committed to our shared values and dedicated to our customers’ mission.
Our National Security Team supports the intelligence community by providing, operating and assuring critical voice, video and collaboration services for the full spectrum of operations.
AT&T has an opening to support the Intelligence Sector for a Network Engineer responsible for configuring and securing Cisco-based network infrastructure, including routers, switches, Identity Services Engine (ISE), Software Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD), as well as managing Windows/Linux servers, LiveAction, VMware, and security hardware and software. You will be part of a team that builds, maintains, and delivers cloud, network, security, and O&M services across multiple classification levels in the environment. You will plan, design, and deploy network components/configurations to ensure that resources (hardware/software) are in place to enable the team to monitor and manage the IT system infrastructure and all processes and components related to these systems (both hardware and software).
In addition, you will engineer solutions for expanding capacity, improving response time, and streamlining network operations throughout the internal and operational systems, will monitor and analyze mission critical networks and servers, and will set up, manage, and maintain security management and application performance optimization functions across internal and customer systems.
Job Duties/Responsibilities:
- Provide network administration support for development, deployment, and problem identification and remediation of the enterprise network environment.
- Designs, Constructs, tests and implements integrated network, hardware and software solutions, , and/or physical and logical communications networks for the organization.
- Provides Tier 2 and Tier 3 support for service requests and trouble tickets to include Move, Add, and change requests for the enterprise transport.
- Must be able to write and execute detailed network implementations such as topology and rack elevation diagrams.
- Provides technical consulting on high level network designs, platform sizing, infrastructure system design and the application of new technologies.
- Applies extensive industry and enterprise knowledge to identify and recommend integrated solutions, products and services to support the enterprise's accomplishments of business goals or technical needs.
- Able to work on-call nights and weekends if needed to ensure transport availability or to meet service level agreements (SLAs)
- Provide technical assistance to companion work groups in support of overlapping projects and maintain good inter-departmental relations.
- Assess the impact of system changes to the team and to the infrastructure.
- Provide written and in-person status to leadership.
- Ability to travel to sites across the US
Required Clearance:
TS/SCI with Poly (#tssci) (#polygraph)
Required Qualifications:
Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years. Additional required qualifications include: Compliance with Department of Defense (DoD) 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
- Minimum 10 years demonstrated experience engineering, implementing, and maintaining geographically dispersed unclassified and classified networks supporting 1,000 or more users.
- Demonstrated experience designing, implementing, and maintaining Software Defined Networking (Cisco technologies preferred)
- Experience mentoring a team of junior network professionals
- Must be able to support limited instances of providing after-hours support for network administration, operations, and maintenance problems.
- Certifications: CCNA and DOD IAT Level II
Desired Qualifications:
- 15 years’ experience engineering, implementing, and maintaining geographically dispersed unclassified and classified networks supporting 1,000 or more users.
- Knowledge of routing protocols OSPF and BGP, IPSEC tunnels, and security zoning on interfaces
- Experience designing, implementing and maintaining VMWare and Nutanix based virtual infrastructure
- Experience with any of the following technologies: Cisco Nexus/Catalyst/ASA/ISR/XE, , AWS, and/or Microsoft Azure.
- Certifications: CCNP Enterprise or higher (CCIE and/or CISSP highly valued); passed Implementing Cisco SD-WAN Solutions (300-415 ENSDWI) Exam.
Our Network Engineer II's earn between $79,300 - $200,000. Not to mention all the other amazing rewards that working at AT&T offers. Individual starting salary within this range may depend on geography, experience, expertise, and education/training.
Joining our team comes with amazing perks and benefits:
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (based on date of hire, at least 23 days of vacation each year and 9 company-designated holidays)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available but is unprotected
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
Weekly Hours:
40Time Type:
RegularLocation:
Sterling, VirginiaIt is the policy of AT&T to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, citizenship status, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, AT&T will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. AT&T is a fair chance employer and does not initiate a background check until an offer is made.
Job ID R-93930 Date posted 12/17/2025
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