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# Lead LAN/WAN Engineer

- **Company:** The Bison Group
- **Location:** Tampa, FL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Border Gateway Protocol, Information Systems, Computer Networks, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Monitoring, Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), Peering, Wide Area Networks, Computer Networking Systems, IT Architecture, Juniper, NetScout, Cisco
- **Published:** July 15, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9030415/lead-lanwan-engineer

## About the Role

* IAT II, (or Industry Equivalent)
 * CCNP or CCIE (or industry equivalent)
 * TS/SCI security clearance with ability to obtain a CI poly

Education Requirement and Years of Experience: *

 * High School/GED + 11 Yrs
 * Associates + 9 Yrs
 * Bachelors + 7 Yrs
 * Masters + 5 Yrs
 * PhD + 3 Yrs

## Description

Bison Group has an excellent opportunity for an experienced Lead LAN/WAN Engineer who will provide expert Design, analysis, research, and operation support to exceptionally complex networking problems and processes.

 * Serving as a leader in the local- and wide-area networking; highly sought by others for advice and guidance.
 * Serving as a technical expert on established and ad-hoc project teams providing technical direction, interpretation, and alternatives on existing and new services to meet both architectural and operational needs.
 * Providing expertise in Information Systems Architecture, Telecommunications Systems Design, Architecture, Implementation, Information Systems Integration, and Communications and Network Systems Management
 * May manage small teams of engineers and related technical staff such as cyber specialists and testers.
 * Providing insight into cutting edge technologies, integrations, and capabilities
 * Consulting with other engineers, team leads, or customer stakeholders on requirements, technical direction.
 * Providing expertise on, deep knowledge of, and hands-on experience with Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Ruckus, Versa, NOM, NetScout and/or related network components or network monitoring and management tools.
 * Provide deep expertise on BPG, OSPF, Tunnels (GRE, SudeoWire, VPN, L2TP), Spine and Leaf and BGP Peering.


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