Cisco Network Engineer
Salary: $120,000 - $150,000 per year
Location: Boston, MA
Posted: November 20 2025
Minimum Degree:
Relocation Assistance: Not Available
In this role you will be expected to travel up to 25%. It will be based in the New England region. MSP experienced highly preferred.
Key Responsibilities:
- Primary responsibilities include performing project-based engineering, design, staging, installation, validation, testing, and troubleshooting of data/security networks
- Lead complex, large scale Network and Security projects
- Create low-level detailed designs that align with the business strategy, the customer s budget, and operational support capabilities.
- Network discoveries
- Perform Network and Security Assessments
- Presenting documentation and engagement deliverables to customers
- Collaborating as part of a multi-functional team with Sales, Pre-Sales, Project Management, and other delivery/engineering resources
- Trouble resolution of complex issues and assisting team members in solving problems with their deployments.
- Working with junior members of the engineering team to successfully implement secure network solutions
- Execute network maintenance MOP both onsite and remotely with minimal downtime
Required Qualifications:
- Experienced expert with complex multi-protocol routing and switching solutions
- Various security parameters and harden access to devices
- Core Routing and Switching platforms with a focus on design, configuration, and troubleshooting using Cisco Best Practices
- Network design and applications, including designing IP addressing
- OSPF, BGP, EIGRP. Redistribution of protocols and loop prevention
- TCP/IP protocol stack, TCP/IP headers and packets, the OSI model, and commonly used TCP/UDP ports and associated services
- Cloud Networking Experience
- AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform in Networking context
- Aviatrix
- Experienced deploying at least one SDWAN Solution with Viptela, Silverpeak, or Palo Prisma SDWAN
- Experienced in implementing security solutions such as:
- Palo Alto Networks Product Portfolio
- Panorama
- Prisma Access
- Prisma Cloud
- Cisco Security Product Portfolio
- FirePower / FTD Firewalls, Meraki MX: Configuration, tuning, troubleshooting
- FMC Management
- Strong level in routing and switching troubleshooting
- Solid verbal and written communication skills
- Bachelor s Degree or equivalent experience and/or military experience
- Must have 8+ years of related project implementation experience
Additional/Preferred Skills/Certifications:
- Fortinet Product Portfolio
- Fortigate FWs, FortiManager/FortiAnalyzer
- Arista Networking solutions, including CloudVision
- Aruba Product Suite
- Experience with Aruba CX and Aruba OS software
- VSX and VSF technologies
- High availability configurations
- Automation / Scripting: Python, EMM and TCL
- Active Cisco certification; CCNP, CCIE Preferred
- Active Palo Alto certification; PCNSA, PCCSE, PCNSE Preferred