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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Network Engineer - **Company:** Zachary Piper - **Location:** Amarillo, TX, United States - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $170,000.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Wireless LAN, Access Network, User Authentication, VoIP, Catalyst (Software), Computer Networks, Data Centers, Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol, Domain Name System (DNS), Network Troubleshooting, Network Architecture, Network Control, Network Monitoring, Routing, Performance Tuning, BIG-IP Global Traffic Manager (GTM), Wireless Access Point, Network Routers, Identity Services Engine, Network Access Control, Load Balancing, Computer Network Operations, BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM), Information Technology, Splunk, Cisco Switches, Cisco, Servicenow - **Published:** September 4, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9140665/network-engineer ## About the Role * Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of experience, Master's with 2+ years, or 10+ years of combined relevant education/training/experience in lieu of a degree. * 5+ years of relevant networking experience, including Cisco enterprise routing and switching. * Experience supporting secure, highly available enterprise network environments. * Strong network troubleshooting, operations, and infrastructure management experience. * Ability and willingness to work fully onsite in Amarillo, TX* * Active DoD Top Secret w/ eligibility for DOE Q, or currently active DOE Q security clearance* * Desired: + Cisco ISE, Catalyst/DNA Center, Tenable, Splunk, LTM/GTM load balancers, and DNS/DHCP/IPAM administration. ## Description The IT Networking Engineer will support secure, highly available enterprise network infrastructure, maintaining and troubleshooting routing, switching, network access, wireless, VoIP, and core network services. This role will focus on network availability, incident resolution, lifecycle management, monitoring, performance optimization, and change management within a highly secure DOE environment., * Maintain 99.9% availability of core network infrastructure, including routers, switches, and data center fabrics, while resolving network incidents and service outages within established SLAs. * Develop and execute network lifecycle, upgrade, patching, and rollback plans to support infrastructure stability and availability. * Monitor network devices, support NOC/SOC onboarding and telemetry reporting, and provide recommendations for performance optimization, capacity planning, and remediation. * Support Cisco ISE authentication, authorization, access control services, Network Access Devices, and identity groups. * Administer wireless LAN infrastructure, access point deployments, and VoIP services, including moves, adds, changes, and deletions. * Manage load balancers, DNS, DHCP, and IPAM environments supporting enterprise network operations. * Maintain technical documentation, diagrams, inventories, and change records while managing RFCs through ServiceNow and established CAB processes., Keywords: Network Engineer, Network Administrator, Network Infrastructure Engineer, Cisco Network Engineer, Network Operations Engineer, NOC Engineer, Senior Network Engineer, Cisco, Cisco routing, Cisco switching, routers, switches, data center fabric, enterprise networking, network infrastructure, network operations, network troubleshooting, incident response, network outages, Cisco ISE, Identity Services Engine, authentication, authorization, network access control, NAC, Network Access Devices, Cisco Catalyst Center, DNA Center, wireless LAN, WLAN, wireless access points, VoIP, load balancers, LTM, GTM, F5, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, network monitoring, NOC, SOC, telemetry, capacity planning, performance optimization, network lifecycle, network upgrades, patching, ServiceNow, RFC, CAB, Splunk, Tenable, Top Secret, TS, DOE Q, Q Clearance ## Related Videos - [How Cisco embraced a DevOps culture within its network engineering team](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/99-how-cisco-embraced-a-devops-culture-within-its-network-engineering-team) - [Our journey with Spring Boot in a microservice architecture](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/511-our-journey-with-spring-boot-in-a-microservice-architecture) - [Getting under the skin: The Social Engineering techniques](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/38-getting-under-the-skin-the-social-engineering-techniques) - [Computer Vision from the Edge to the Cloud done easy](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/263-computer-vision-from-the-edge-to-the-cloud-done-easy) - [Small, Secure, Interconnected: The next Internet Protocol](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/100062-small-secure-interconnected-the-next-internet-protocol) - [Demystifying application networking in the cloud](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/videos/675-demystifying-application-networking-in-the-cloud) ## Related Articles - [Highest Paying Tech Companies for Developers](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/220-highest-paying-tech-companies-for-developers) - [Best Paying Jobs in Technology](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/256-best-paying-jobs-in-technology) - [How We Built a Worry-Free System That Runs for 10+ Years – And What We’d Do Again](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/751-how-we-built-a-worry-free-system-that-runs-for-10-years-and-what-we-d-do-again) - [Is Software Engineering Over-Saturated?](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/418-is-software-engineering-over-saturated) - [Basic And Advanced Networking in Dart and Flutter](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/112-basic-and-advanced-networking-in-dart-and-flutter) - [The Most Popular IT Jobs on the Market](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/magazine/376-the-most-popular-it-jobs-on-the-market)