{"id":3281250,"url":"https://alion.io/job/decisionpoint-corporation-network-engineering-lead-senior","title":"Network Engineering Lead (Senior)","company":{"id":3863688,"name":"DecisionPoint Corporation","domain":"decisionpointcorp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/decisionpoint-corporation","size_band":"1001-5000","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"iCIMS","truth_index":null},"role":"Networking","role_family":"Networking","seniority":"lead","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Chicago, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":78000,"max_usd":170000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":147},"experience_years_min":8,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"BGP","optional":false},{"name":"OSPF","optional":false},{"name":"VLAN","optional":false},{"name":"VPN","optional":false},{"name":"AWS","optional":true},{"name":"DNS","optional":true},{"name":"ITIL","optional":true}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-26T16:34:33Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-26","last_verified_at":"2026-10-29T07:58:09Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":2,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":2},"description":"Overview\nDecisionPoint seeks a Senior Network EngineeringLead to provide engineering leadership and technical support for USMEPCOM enterprise network infrastructure under the ENLIST program.\nThe Network Engineering Lead will support the design, integration, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and modernization of WAN, LAN, circuit, SD-WAN, and wireless environments. This role will provide senior technical leadership for routers, switches, firewalls, circuits, wireless controllers, access points, cloud connectivity, network-monitoring platforms, and related infrastructure.\nThe Network Engineering Lead will also support outage response, remote-location connectivity, site surveys, coverage analysis, cable-management planning, technical documentation, and coordination with DISA, Government service providers, commercial carriers, and equipment vendors.\nThis is a hybrid position based in N. Chicago, Illinois. The role supports enterprise operations and may require after-hours availability during outages, implementations, maintenance windows, or other mission-critical activities.\nNote: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.\nDuties & Responsibilities\nThe Network Engineering Lead will:\nLead engineering support for USMEPCOM WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, circuit, wireless, cloud-connectivity, and network-management environments. \nProvide network architecture planning, integration, implementation, analysis, troubleshooting, and performance optimization. \nGather, analyze, document, and validate technical and operational network requirements. \nEstablish technical priorities, develop implementation schedules, estimate rough-order costs, and prepare high-level concepts of operations. \nDesign, configure, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise routing protocols, including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP. \nConfigure and support routers, switches, firewalls, virtual routing, subinterfaces, VLAN routing, and Quality of Service policies. \nSupport ordering, installation, activation, migration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of network circuits. \nCoordinate end-to-end circuit installation and connectivity with Government personnel, DISA, telecommunications carriers, commercial vendors, and local service providers. \nMonitor circuit status, availability, uptime, utilization, latency, packet loss, and network traffic. \nProactively identify and resolve network issues to improve availability, performance, resilience, and capacity. \nInstall, refresh, configure, and troubleshoot SD-WAN devices and associated network services. \nSupport cloud connectivity and secure integration between cloud services and Government networks. \nConfigure, integrate, and maintain wireless controllers and wireless access points. \nPerform wireless coverage and performance analysis using heat maps, surveys, monitoring data, and other approved analytical tools. \nIdentify wireless coverage gaps, interference, capacity constraints, and access-point placement issues and recommend corrective actions. \nEnsure network devices are securely configured, tested, and approved before connection to LAN and WAN environments. \nCoordinate network-device operating-system updates, firmware upgrades, vendor patches, security patches, and configuration changes. \nSupport implementation of applicable DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides and approved network-security configurations. \nDevelop and operate network-monitoring and management capabilities supporting availability, capacity, fault, and performance management. \nMonitor network, computing, and storage resource utilization and recommend actions to address capacity shortfalls. \nTroubleshoot complex connectivity, routing, performance, configuration, wireless, circuit, VPN, firewall, and cloud-integration issues. \nCoordinate with external service providers to resolve issues beyond USMEPCOM-controlled LAN boundaries. \nSupport remote MEPS, Recruiting Processing Stations, virtual MEPS, and other remote locations with WAN, circuit, firewall, VPN, ISP, and cloud-connectivity issues. \nSupport the Outage Response Team during network-related incidents, performance degradation, and service outages. \nProvide technical diagnosis, restoration recommendations, workarounds, root-cause input, and corrective-action support. \nCoordinate vendor escalation, maintenance, support, equipment refreshes, quotes, best-practice reviews, and replacement of failed network devices. \nSupport network cabling, rack, patch-panel, network-drop, and related physical-infrastructure planning. \nConduct or support site surveys and develop network-drop requirements, installation estimates, and physical inside-plant documentation. \nMaintain network diagrams, as-built drawings, schematics, rack layouts, equipment inventories, interconnection records, and ATO-supporting documentation. \nSupport network-equipment relocation and installation activities for new or relocated MEPS facilities. \nDevelop and maintain network standard operating procedures, troubleshooting guides, engineering documentation, lessons learned, and knowledge articles. \nSupport service design, service transition, change management, configuration management, and modernization activities. \nProvide technical mentoring and guidance to network administrators, support specialists, and other infrastructure personnel. \nQualifications\nRequired Qualifications\nActive Secret clearance or higher. \nBachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Networking, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field. \nMinimum of 8 years of relevant network engineering, network architecture, network administration, or enterprise infrastructure experience. \nCurrent Cisco Certified Network Professional certification. \nAbility to work a hybrid schedule in N. Chicago, Illinois. \nPreferred Qualifications\nCCNP Enterprise, CCNP Security, or another CCNP specialization directly related to the supported environment. \nExperience leading network-engineering activities in a federal or Department of Defense environment. \nAdvanced experience designing, configuring, and troubleshooting enterprise WAN, LAN, and SD-WAN environments. \nAdvanced knowledge of EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, virtual routing, subnetting, access-control lists, and Quality of Service. \nExperience with Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, wireless controllers, access points, and network-management platforms. \nExperience ordering, installing, activating, monitoring, and troubleshooting Government and commercial network circuits. \nExperience coordinating circuit and connectivity services with DISA, telecommunications carriers, ISPs, and local IT service providers. \nExperience designing and troubleshooting secure connectivity between cloud environments and Government networks. \nExperience performing wireless surveys, heat-map analysis, coverage optimization, capacity analysis, and access-point placement. \nExperience supporting VPNs, firewalls, load balancers, DNS, network appliances, and cloud-networking technologies. \nExperience with enterprise network-monitoring, performance-management, configuration-management, and observability tools. \nExperience supporting network-related outage response, service restoration, root-cause analysis, and corrective-action tracking. \nExperience applying DISA STIGs and supporting DoD RMF, ATO, IAVA, CND Directive, and POA&M requirements. \nExperience developing network diagrams, as-built documentation, rack layouts, site surveys, implementation plans, and technical concepts of operations. \nFamiliarity with structured cabling, network racks, patch panels, inside-plant infrastructure, fiber, and network-drop planning. \nAdditional certifications such as CompTIA Security+, CompTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Design Expert, Certified Wireless Network Professional, AWS Advanced Networking, or equivalent credentials. \nITIL Foundation or higher certification. \nStrong technical leadership, analytical, troubleshooting, documentation, vendor-management, and stakeholder-communication skills. \nAbility to coordinate multiple engineering, implementation, outage, vendor, and remote-site activities simultaneously. \nOur Equal Employment Opportunity Policy\nEEO and Affirmative Action Policy: DecisionPoint Corporation is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action employer. It is the policy of DecisionPoint Corporation to provide equal employment opportunity in accordance with all applicable Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action laws, directives and regulations to all employees and qualified applicants without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, national origin, sex, age, disability status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other protected status under Federal, State or Local laws.\n Pay Transparency Policy: In accordance with Presidential Executive Order 13665, DecisionPoint Corporation will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information.\n Authorization to Share Resume and Personal Information: By expressing your interest and submitting your resume for this position, you authorize DecisionPoint Corporation to share your resume, as well as personal information included on the resume, with its subsidiaries, affiliates and teaming partners for the purpose of considering you for this position and other available positions requiring comparable skills, education and experience. 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