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# Network Engineer Lead

- **Company:** Zachary Piper
- **Location:** Rockville, MD, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $170,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Microsoft Azure, Complex Networks, Computer Networks, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Security, Pcap, Citrix Systems, Wireshark, Identity Services Engine, Firewalls (Computer Science), Cisco Switches, Citrix Netscaler
- **Published:** May 26, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/8935006/network-engineer-lead

## About the Role

* Azure experience with NSGs, UDRs
 * Azure DNS / Private DNS
 * Experience with NetScaler Citrix
 * Expert with Cisco switches network software upgrades
 * Ability to troubleshoot complex network issues
 * Experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE)
 * Palo Alto Firewalls Panorama
 * Analyzing PCAP Files using Wireshark

## Description

* Lead a team of network engineers and working directly with client counterpart
 * Update technical documentation, maintaining & implementation of the SOP for network security
 * Drive the identified efforts and able to perform trouble shooting to determine root cause analysis (RCA)
 * Lead, plan, and work with the FEDs to understand what is being planned but drive the effort to completion


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