Sr IDC Network Engineer

Greetings!!

Senior IDC Network Engineer — Routing & Switching

Location: Ashburn, Virginia — Onsite
Duration: 1+ year

Primary Focus: Hands-on enterprise routing and switching; Internet Data Center operations, DCIM, and physical infrastructure coordination

Position Summary

• The Senior IDC Network Engineer is responsible for the hands-on configuration, implementation, troubleshooting, maintenance, and lifecycle support of enterprise routing and switching infrastructure within an onsite Internet Data Center environment.
• The position’s primary responsibility is network engineering: maintaining reliable Layer 2 and Layer 3 connectivity, implementing approved network changes, resolving complex incidents, supporting upgrades and migrations, and protecting network availability and performance. The engineer must be comfortable working directly with production routers, switches, interfaces, routing protocols, VLANs, trunks, circuits, and related network services.
• The role operates and supports IDC operations, including DCIM data accuracy, rack-level equipment installation, structured cabling, fiber and copper cross-connect coordination, carrier circuit turn-up, technical documentation, vendor coordination, and participation in scheduled maintenance windows.
• This is a senior, hands-on position—not a primarily architectural, project-management, or remote-monitoring role.

 Required Qualifications

• Minimum of 10 years of hands-on routing and switching experience in enterprise, service-provider, government, or similarly complex production networks.
• Demonstrated experience independently configuring, implementing, maintaining, and troubleshooting production routers and switches.
• Strong knowledge of:
• TCP/IP and IPv4 networking
• Layer 2 switching, VLANs, trunking, and redundancy
• Layer 3 routing and route selection
• BGP and OSPF
• Network segmentation and resilient network design
• Network monitoring and diagnostic techniques
• Experience planning and executing production network changes, maintenance activities, upgrades, migrations, and cutovers.
• Experience troubleshooting complex connectivity and performance issues across network devices, carrier circuits, and physical infrastructure.
• At least three contiguous years of hands-on experience working in an IDC or comparable data-center environment.
• Practical experience with data-center physical infrastructure, including equipment installation, rack-level work, fiber and copper cabling, patch panels, transceivers, and cross-connects.
• Working experience with a DCIM platform, including validating and maintaining equipment, rack, port, cable, or asset records.
• Experience with incident, problem, and change-management processes and associated ticket documentation.
• Ability to produce accurate network diagrams, configuration records, implementation plans, rollback procedures, and as-built documentation.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, written-communication, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Ability to work independently onsite while collaborating effectively with distributed engineering and operations teams.
• Ability and willingness to work onsite Monday through Friday in Ashburn, Virginia for the duration of the engagement.
• Ability to support scheduled evening, overnight, or weekend maintenance and participate in an on-call rotation when required.

Work Environment and Physical Expectations

• Work is performed onsite within a secure Internet Data Center.
• The position requires routine access to equipment rooms, cages, racks, cabinets, patch panels, and telecommunications demarcation areas.
• The engineer must be able to safely perform rack-level installation, cabling, equipment inspection, and component-replacement activities, with reasonable accommodation where applicable.
• Work may require standing, bending, reaching within equipment racks, handling network cabling, and moving or positioning network components using approved safety practices.
• Periodic evening, overnight, weekend, or on-call support may be required for maintenance windows, production changes, equipment replacements, or critical incidents.

Best Regards,

Rick P