Senior Network Engineer

Position: Specialist Level III – Senior Network Engineer

Client: CUNY Central Office, 395 Hudson Street, New York, NY (onsite)

Start: Around October 21, 2026

Duration: 1 year

Hours: 9am–5pm EST, plus after hours/weekends as needed

Travel: Regular travel to CUNY campuses across the five NYC boroughs and Long Island

Work Authorization: Must be legally authorized to work in the US

Mandatory Qualifications:

- 7+ years hands-on Senior Network Engineer experience

- Cisco Optical Network Solutions (ONS): troubleshooting with Cisco TAC, onsite hardware swaps/installs, fiber cabling (troubleshoot, clean, replace)

- Cisco Catalyst and Nexus route/switch, Cisco ASR routing

- BGP (iBGP/eBGP), OSPF/EIGRP, TCP/IP, VLANs, subnetting, DNS, DHCP, NAT, VPN, firewalls, load balancers, IPAM

- Intermediate Cisco and Meraki Wi-Fi (incl. Aironet)

- Packet capture and traffic flow analysis; structured root cause analysis

- Network automation using Ansible, Terraform, Python, Bash, PowerShell, Git or similar (config backup, compliance, drift detection, provisioning); Network-as-Code exposure a plus

- Senior escalation point; mentoring junior engineers

Key Duties:

- Day-to-day operations across ONS, Catalyst, Nexus, ASR, Aironet and Meraki; LAN/WAN and cloud connections

- Writing MOPs, submitting and implementing changes in ServiceNow

- Incident response, ticket management, Cisco TAC and carrier coordination

- Field replacement of failed ONS modules at CUNY sites

- Training and knowledge transfer to CUNY network engineering/NOC staff