Network Engineer - Senior Consultant

Job Description Network Engineer – Senior Consultant About CBCCanadian Breaks Consulting, LLC is a growing consulting firm based in Amarillo, TX serving clients with customized project management solutions to complex problems on critical projects. Our Mission: "To plan, manage, and execute projects with hearts, hands, and feet of Christ."Our Core Values Integrity: A commitment to Truth with a consistent and uncompromising adherence to strong moral and ethical principles and values. Excellence: A constant and consistent drive to uphold and raise standards in whatever you do. Prudence: A commitment to taking the extra step and considering the reasonableness of your actions as well as their consequences. Stewardship: An unwavering willingness to carefully and responsibly manage interests separate from and greater than your own. About the Role Introduction The Network Engineer designs, engineers, and sustains the enterprise network infrastructure at a National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) site in the Texas Panhandle, on one of the most security-sensitive missions in the country. This is a hands-on engineering role: administering and hardening routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and wireless infrastructure, engineering complex routing and segmentation strategies, and resolving the difficult problems that surface on a network where availability and security are both non-negotiable. The Network Engineer works alongside client IT, cybersecurity, operations, and vendor personnel, operates within formal configuration control and change management discipline, and documents the network to a standard that withstands audit. This position is fully onsite in the Amarillo, TX area on a 9/80 schedule with every other Friday off and requires an active federal security clearance. Years of Experience 10+ years of relevant network engineering experience Qualifications Required 10+ years of relevant network engineering experience, including 5+ years supporting enterprise-scale routing, switching, and firewall infrastructure. Active DOE Q clearance or active DoD Top Secret clearance, or previously held either with eligibility for reinstatement, along with the ability to obtain and maintain a DOE Q clearance. U.S. citizenship is required. Hands-on command of enterprise routing and switching, including Cisco routers and switches, complex routing strategies using EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP, route redistribution, convergence, and path selection, plus next-generation firewall, VPN, and wireless infrastructure administration. Bachelor's degree in an engineering, science, or information technology discipline, or a master's degree in one of those disciplines, or a combination of 10 or more years of relevant education, training, and experience in lieu of a degree. Able to work fully onsite in the Amarillo, TX area, pass a federal background investigation and pre-employment and random drug testing, participate in medical monitoring, and, if assigned scope requires Materials Access Area entry, participate in the Human Reliability Program including a counterintelligence-scope polygraph pursuant to 10 CFR 709.Preferred Prior experience supporting DOE, NNSA, DoD, or other federal secure environments. Next-generation firewall depth on Palo Alto or Cisco ASA/Fire Power platforms, including high availability configuration, SSL decryption, policy optimization, and IDS/IPS.Network access control experience with Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE), including network access devices, authentication policies, identity groups, and endpoint compliance.