Senior Network Engineer Support

Role: Senior Network Engineer Support
Location : Oakland, CA 94612 (5 days onsite )
Duration : 6+ months (possibility of extension)
Travel: Up to 10% travel required; MGT will reimburse reasonable travel expenses.

Job Summary:
MGT is a national leader in public sector management consulting and services that delivers diverse business consulting services to a wide range of public sector groups. Celebrating its 51th year in 2025, the firm attracts exceptional talent and empowers them to exceed client expectations as they navigate the dynamic demands of public agency performance. Our mission is to impact communities for good.

In this position The Network Engineer deliver expert-level on-site network engineering services for data center and enterprise infrastructure, emphasizing hands-on deployment, advanced troubleshooting, and management of escalated incidents, to ensure high availability, security, and performance of network systems.

Key Responsibilities Network Operations & Configuration
Provide expertise and troubleshoot Layer 2 & 3 network operations (e.g., STP, VLANs).
Support overlay/underlay network architectures; ensure correct MTU sizing, redundancy (e.g., link aggregation, port channel, LACP), and high availability.
Configure and maintain routing protocols as needed (e.g., OSPF, IS-IS, BGP) especially in hybrid or multi-fabric environments.
Experience engineering in a Unified Optical Network (UON) ring topology.

Firewall, Load Balancing, and Security Controls
Deploy, configure, and optimize security devices, including Fortigate firewalls, WAFs (such as F5 BIG-IP preferred), and adhere to least-privilege/access control models.
Implement and manage traffic policies, NAT, VPNs, DNS, etc.

Specialized Platform Support & Optimization
Configure, support, and optimize preferred platforms: Arista switching and CloudVision, Juniper platforms, Fortinet, F5, Infoblox etc.
Tune network performance (latency-sensitive traffic, bandwidth utilization, etc.).
Architect and Implement redundancy, failover, and load balancing to prevent single points of failure.

Escalations & Advanced Troubleshooting
Act as the escalation point for complex network issues, across fiber and Ethernet networks.
Utilize packet captures, telemetry, logging, performance metrics to identify root cause.
Lead incident response and coordinate with other teams or vendors as needed.

Collaboration & Cross-Functional Support
Work with other IT and OT groups (security, systems, storage, virtualization) to ensure network design supports overall infrastructure goals.
Participate in disaster recovery planning, capacity planning, and scaling discussions.
Support change management processes: approval, documentation, testing, rollback planning.

Documentation & Knowledge Transfer
Maintain up-to-date network diagrams, topology maps, configuration standards, runbooks, and escalation procedures.
Provide training or mentorship to other team members; enable knowledge transfer.
Recommend best practices and continuous improvement strategies.

Optional / Nice-to-Have Skills
Experience with virtualization platforms (VMware), hyperconverged infrastructure (e.g., Nutanix), backup/restoration solutions (e.g., Rubrik).
Experience with Criminal Justice Systems, CJIS compliance, CAD systems and deployment of mobile Police Hardware.
Familiarity with Cisco hardware and software, especially in enterprise or data center environments.
Competence in automation, orchestration, or scripting tools (Ansible, Python, etc.).
Understanding of monitoring/telemetry tools (Prometheus, Grafana, SNMP, etc.) for proactive network health monitoring.
Exposure to IPv6, SDN (software-defined networking), overlay technologies (VXLAN etc.).