Network Engineering Lead (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp, Chicago, IL
Network Engineering Lead (Senior) at Careers Decisionpointcorp in Chicago, IL. Full-time. Est. up to $130k. Apply with swipeandhired.
Network Engineering Lead (Senior)
ID
2026-4168
Job Locations
US-IL-Chicago
Category
Information Technology
Type
Regular Full-Time
Overview
DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Network Engineering Lead to provide engineering leadership and technical support for USMEPCOM enterprise network infrastructure under the ENLIST program.
The Network Engineering Lead will support the design, integration, configuration, monitoring, troubleshooting, and modernization of WAN, LAN, circuit, SD-WAN, and wireless environments. This role will provide senior technical leadership for routers, switches, firewalls, circuits, wireless controllers, access points, cloud connectivity, network-monitoring platforms, and related infrastructure.
The Network Engineering Lead will also support outage response, remote-location connectivity, site surveys, coverage analysis, cable-management planning, technical documentation, and coordination with DISA, Government service providers, commercial carriers, and equipment vendors.
This is a hybrid position based in N. Chicago, Illinois. The role supports enterprise operations and may require after- hours availability during outages, implementations, maintenance windows, or other mission-critical activities.
Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.
Duties & Responsibilities
The Network Engineering Lead will:
- Lead engineering support for USMEPCOM WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, circuit, wireless, cloud-connectivity, and network-management environments.
- Provide network architecture planning, integration, implementation, analysis, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
- Gather, analyze, document, and validate technical and operational network requirements.
- Establish technical priorities, develop implementation schedules, estimate rough-order costs, and prepare high-level concepts of operations.
- Design, configure, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise routing protocols, including EIGRP, OSPF, and BGP.
- Configure and support routers, switches, firewalls, virtual routing, subinterfaces, VLAN routing, and Quality of Service policies.
- Support ordering, installation, activation, migration, monitoring, and troubleshooting of network circuits.
- Coordinate end-to-end circuit installation and connectivity with Government personnel, DISA, telecommunications carriers, commercial vendors, and local service providers.
- Monitor circuit status, availability, uptime, utilization, latency, packet loss, and network traffic.
- Proactively identify and resolve network issues to improve availability, performance, resilience, and capacity.
- Install, refresh, configure, and troubleshoot SD-WAN devices and associated network services.
- Support cloud connectivity and secure integration between cloud services and Government networks.
- Configure, integrate, and maintain wireless controllers and wireless access points.
- Perform wireless coverage and performance analysis using heat maps, surveys, monitoring data, and other approved analytical tools.
- Identify wireless coverage gaps, interference, capacity constraints, and access-point placement issues and recommend corrective actions. <span data-ccp-props='{"1