Network Engineer

About Us
Schring Consulting is a trusted provider of IT Professional Services, helping organizations plan, build, and deliver technology initiatives that drive business success. Founded in 2003, Schring specializes in software development, project delivery, technology consulting, and staff augmentation. We partner with organizations across industries to provide experienced technology professionals who help solve complex business and technical challenges. Our commitment to delivering high-quality solutions, building strong client relationships, and fostering technical excellence drives everything we do.

About the Role
Schring Consulting is seeking an experienced Senior Network Engineer with an active Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification to support enterprise networking initiatives. In this role, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, optimizing, and maintaining complex network infrastructures, ensuring high levels of performance, availability, scalability, and security. You will serve as a senior technical resource, leveraging extensive expertise in routing, switching, network architecture, and infrastructure troubleshooting to address sophisticated networking challenges. The ideal candidate brings deep hands-on experience with enterprise network environments, strong analytical and problem-solving skills, and the ability to independently lead technical initiatives. This position requires a highly skilled networking professional who can contribute to network architecture decisions, execute infrastructure improvements, and provide expert-level technical guidance. This is a remote, part-time, hourly independent contractor engagement.

Key Responsibilities
• Design, implement, configure, and maintain enterprise-level LAN, WAN, and data center network infrastructures.
• Architect, optimize, and troubleshoot complex routing and switching environments using technologies such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, EIGRP, VLANs, STP, and MPLS.
• Manage and support Cisco networking platforms, including Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, and ASR series, or equivalent enterprise networking solutions.
• Lead network infrastructure upgrades, migrations, deployments, and technology transitions, ensuring minimal service disruption.
• Diagnose and resolve complex network performance, connectivity, availability, and security issues.
• Participate in high-priority incident response, perform root cause analysis, and implement corrective and preventive solutions.
• Develop and maintain network architecture documentation, configuration standards, technical procedures, and operational best practices.
• Collaborate with infrastructure, cybersecurity, cloud, and application teams to ensure network integration, segmentation, and security requirements are met.
• Evaluate existing network environments and recommend improvements to enhance performance, reliability, scalability, and operational efficiency.
• Provide senior-level technical guidance and serve as an escalation point for complex networking issues. Required Qualifications
• Active Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) certification is mandatory. Relevant certification tracks include Enterprise Infrastructure, Data Center, Service Provider, or Security.
• Minimum of 7 years of hands-on experience in enterprise networking, network engineering, or infrastructure architecture.
• Extensive experience designing, implementing, managing, and troubleshooting complex enterprise network environments.
• Advanced knowledge of routing protocols, including BGP, OSPF, and IS-IS, as well as switching technologies such as VLANs, STP, and VXLAN/EVPN.
• Strong hands-on experience with Cisco networking technologies and platforms, including Catalyst, Nexus, ISR, and ASR.
• Solid understanding of network security principles, QoS, multicast, redundancy, and high-availability architectures.
• Experience with network monitoring, performance analysis, and troubleshooting tools, including packet capture, NetFlow, SNMP, and network telemetry.
• Ability to independently analyze complex technical issues and develop effective solutions.
• Strong communication, documentation, and collaboration skills.
• Ability to work independently in a remote environment and manage assigned responsibilities effectively. Preferred Qualifications
• Experience with Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN), including Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN, Meraki, or similar technologies.
• Familiarity with cloud networking architectures and services across AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with network automation and configuration management using Python, Ansible, Terraform, NETCONF/RESTCONF, or pyATS.
• Knowledge of enterprise firewall technologies, including Palo Alto, Fortinet, or Cisco.
• Additional industry certifications such as CCDE, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, or CISSP.
• Experience implementing network segmentation, zero-trust architectures, and advanced network security solutions.
• Experience supporting large-scale, distributed, or highly available enterprise network environments. Employment Details
• Work Arrangement: Fully Remote.
• Employment Type: Part-Time, Independent Contractor.
• Compensation Structure: Hourly, based on experience and qualifications.