Network Engineer

Patriot Talent Solutions

Patriot Talent Solutions

IT

Knoxville, TN, USA

Posted on Apr 23, 2026

Network Engineer

Location: Onsite

Duration: Direct hire

This full-time position will design and build computing platforms, applications and networks operating in a hybrid environment both on premise and in the cloud.

Essential Job Duties and Functions:

  • Research technical components of system architecture for on premise environments and Cloud services/tenants
  • Maintains compliance with applicable laws, regulations and policies governing information assurance
  • Monitors, maintains and installs Third Party software and Operating System security updates
  • Monitors, maintains and ensures complete information and data backup of all test and development environments
  • Engages with Security Engineers to ensure vulnerabilities are mitigated
  • Deploys major and minor releases and hotfixes of company developed software to all test and development environments
  • Develops and maintains documentation of all test and development environments to include build and configuration documents for servers within the environments

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree in a related field
  • Minimum of two years of experience in performing the job functions
  • DoD Secret Clearance, and ability to obtain U.S. government Top Secret Clearance.
  • Ability to support and manage Active Directory 2012 R2 and newer and Azure AD
  • Ability to Design, deploy, manage and support Azure and AWS solutions and services
  • Demonstrated knowledge of MS Exchange or Hosted Exchange
  • Demonstrated knowledge of O365 Administration
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Routers, Firewalls and L2Managed switches
  • Demonstrated knowledge of VMware (vCenter, ESXi, Horizon View)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of supporting Windows operation systems (Server 2012 R2, 2016, 2019 and Windows 10 & 11 desktops)
  • Demonstrated knowledge of backup solutions such as Backup Exec and Veeam
  • Basic understanding of Windows PowerShell
  • Basic understanding of Terminal Servers, MS RDS Deployments
  • Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level II Certification Required
  • (CompTia Security+)

Preferred Experience:

  • Azure Networking
  • Azure Sentinel/Defender XDR
  • Azure Purview
  • COMSEC
  • DCSA NISP (NISS, DISS, NBIS)
  • Government ISSM/ISSO
  • Government ePO Administration
  • Government ACAS Administration
  • Secuirty+ and AWS

"Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled"