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# Network Engineer Senior

- **Company:** ECS Corporate Services, LLC
- **Location:** Washington, DC, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $158,000.0 - $176,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Complex Networks, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Security, Network Architecture, Network Control, Network Planning and Design, Network Monitoring, Routing, Network Routers, Reliability of Systems, Firewalls (Computer Science)
- **Published:** July 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.disabledperson.com/jobs/73872266-network-engineer-senior

## About the Role

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.

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

## Description

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.

Salary Range: $158,000 - $176,000

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.


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