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