Senior Network Engineer
Summary
1-year onsite contract (Specialist Level III) senior network engineer at CUNY's Central Office in NYC, running day-to-day operations across Cisco ONS, Catalyst, Nexus, ASR, Aironet and Meraki, handling incident response and field hardware swaps, and using Ansible/Terraform/Python for network automation.
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