Network Engineer

JW Affinity IT is continuously building connections with Network Professionals who are interested in future roles supporting secure enterprise network environments.

If you have hands-on experience with physical network infrastructure, troubleshooting, incident response, and customer-facing technical support, we look forward to connecting with you!, JW Affinity IT is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to support the enterprise network infrastructure of a local municipality. This position is responsible for designing, operating, securing, and troubleshooting the wired, wireless, and wide-area networks that connect municipal offices, public facilities, data centers, and cloud services.

The ideal candidate can independently manage complex network environments, lead infrastructure improvements, respond to service disruptions, and coordinate effectively with cybersecurity teams, telecommunications providers, vendors, and municipal stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Configure, administer, monitor, and troubleshoot switches, routers, firewalls, wireless controllers, access points, and related network equipment.
• Support LAN, WAN, WLAN, VPN, internet, and data-center connectivity across multiple municipal locations.
• Maintain secure connectivity between municipal facilities, cloud environments, remote employees, vendors, and partner organizations.
• Manage routing, switching, VLANs, subnetting, access control lists, quality of service, network segmentation, and redundancy.
• Monitor network availability, capacity, latency, utilization, and security events using enterprise monitoring tools.
• Diagnose and resolve complex connectivity, performance, voice, video, and application-delivery issues.
• Support firewall policies, site-to-site VPNs, remote-access VPNs, and network access controls.
• Design and implement network upgrades, equipment replacements, site expansions, and technology refreshes.
• Coordinate with telecommunications carriers, internet service providers, equipment manufacturers, and third-party vendors.
• Develop and maintain network diagrams, IP address documentation, configuration standards, inventories, and recovery procedures.
• Conduct configuration backups, firmware upgrades, patching, and network-device lifecycle management.
• Support network vulnerability remediation and cybersecurity incident-response activities.
• Assist with disaster recovery, continuity-of-operations planning, and restoration testing.
• Provide technical leadership during network outages and high-priority service incidents.
• Participate in scheduled maintenance and an after-hours on-call rotation when required.

• Five to seven years of professional network engineering or network administration experience.
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs, VPNs, subnetting, routing, switching, firewalls, and wireless networking.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise-grade network technologies from Cisco, Aruba, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks, Juniper, or comparable manufacturers.
• Experience supporting a distributed, multi-site network environment.
• Experience diagnosing complex network availability and performance issues.
• Working knowledge of network security, segmentation, access control, and high-availability design.
• Ability to create technical diagrams, implementation plans, configuration documentation, and change records.
• Bachelor’s degree in information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education, certifications, and experience.
• Ability to successfully complete any background screening required for access to municipal systems and facilities., * Experience supporting municipal government, public safety, utilities, transportation, education, or another public-sector environment.
• Cisco CCNA or CCNP, CompTIA Network+, Fortinet, Aruba, Palo Alto Networks, or comparable certification.
• Experience with software-defined networking, network access control, SD-WAN, cloud networking, or zero-trust architectures.
• Familiarity with VoIP, video conferencing, fiber infrastructure, and telecommunications circuits.
• Knowledge of CJIS, NIST, PCI DSS, or other public-sector compliance requirements.
• Experience supporting environments with critical services and 24-hour operational requirements.

• Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Retirement Plan (401k,with matching)
• Life Insurance Plan
• PTO
• Short Term & Long-Term Disability
• Internet & Phone Allowance (for applicable roles)
• Wellness Resources (EAP)
• Pet Insurance
• Work-Life balance
• Flexible Hours
• Full-Time Permanent Positions

JW Affinity IT is a full-service IT solutions provider supporting schools and private organizations with strategic, innovative technology projects. We take the time to understand our clients’ needs to successfully develop, implement, and manage each initiative. JW is a certified small, woman- and minority-owned business through the National Minority Supplier Development Council.