Resident Network Engineer – Data Centre Operations – freelance – onsite – Columbia area, Maryland, USA

Columbia, United States | Posted on 17/10/2026

Start Date: As soon as possible (pending offer and onboarding)Duration: 12 months initially Work Location: onsiteCustomer Site Address: TBC

Job Description

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace and encourage applications from all qualified candidates.

Comgent is seeking a Resident Network Engineer to operate and maintain a data centre network. You will work directly with customer engineers to investigate incidents, restore service and improve day-to-day network reliability. The environment includes Juniper QFX, MX, EX and SRX platforms; previous Juniper experience is advantageous rather than mandatory.

Assignment

- Location: Columbia area, Maryland, USA

- Engagement: freelance / contract

- Work arrangement: Onsite

- Schedule: 40 hours per week

Responsibilities

- Operate and maintain the data centre network, applying a detailed understanding of routing, switching and the services running across it.

- Investigate equipment, hardware,



software and network faults with customer engineers and vendor technical support, working through to resolution.

- Open and track technical support cases, supply diagnostic evidence and communicate progress, workarounds and root-cause findings clearly.

- Identify opportunities to improve network design and operation, balancing self-directed work with customer and account priorities.

- Deliver informal briefings and formal training sessions to help customer teams understand the technologies and solutions in use.

Requirements

- EVPN, multicast, OSPF, BGP, RSVP, LDP, pseudowires, L2/L3VPN, MPLS-TE, GRE, VXLAN.

- Technology environment: QFX, MX, EX, SRX; Juniper experience preferred, not mandatory.

- Required clearance: TS/SCI with Full Scope Polygraph.

- Vendor certifications; DevOps; XML API, NETCONF, REST, gRPC; Python RPCs, PyEZ, ncclient; Ansible/Jinja2; SLAX and Junos scripts.

You should be comfortable working under pressure, prioritising technical issues and explaining findings to customers. Strong interpersonal, communication and presentation skills are valued.

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