Network Engineer
Cummings Electrical
- Location
- Onsite (Fort Worth, TX)
- Employment
- Full-time
- Level
- Senior Level
About the role
Cummings Electrical is a leading electrical contracting firm in the DFW market, seeking a Network Engineer to design, implement, and maintain secure enterprise network infrastructure. The role ensures reliable connectivity across offices and remote environments while collaborating with IT and business teams to improve performance.
Skills
Full job details
Overview
Network Engineer Needed!
Currently seeking a Network Engineering to support our daily IT Operations.
The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and supporting enterprise network infrastructure across the organization. This role will ensure reliable, secure, and high-performing connectivity across offices, facilities, jobsites, and remote environments. They will work closely with IT, security, systems, applications, and business teams to troubleshoot complex network issues, support infrastructure projects, maintain network security, and continuously improve network performance and reliability. The ideal candidate has strong hands-on experience with enterprise networking, firewalls, wireless infrastructure, and network troubleshooting.
Responsibilities
- Five plus years of experience in network engineering, network administration, or related IT roles.
- Strong understanding of TCP/IP, routing, switching, subnetting, VLANs, DNS, DHCP, NAT, and VPN technologies.
- Experience managing enterprise network and firewall platforms (Cisco, Meraki, Palo Alto, Fortinet, or similar).
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting enterprise switching, routing, wireless, WAN, and site-to-site connectivity.
- Working knowledge of network security concepts including segmentation, firewall policies, least-privilege access, and secure remote connectivity.
- Experience with network monitoring, logging, packet capture, and traffic analysis tools.
- Experience troubleshooting complex network, infrastructure, and application connectivity issues.
- Ability to clearly document network configurations, diagrams, technical procedures, and standards.
- Strong troubleshooting, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
Qualifications
- Networking certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, Network+, or equivalent.
- Experience with Cisco Firepower/FTD, Firewall Management Center (FMC), and Cisco Meraki technologies.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Azure networking, virtualization, identity/SSO technologies, and cloud-connected services.
- Exposure to network security and compliance frameworks (NIST, ISO 27001, SOC, etc.).
Culture
To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following competencies:
- Business Ethics – Treats people with respect, works with integrity, and upholds organizational values.
- Communications – Clearly communicates technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Conflict Resolution – Maintains composure under pressure and resolves issues fairly and objectively.
- Consistency – Follows through on commitments and maintains dependable network and infrastructure practices.
- Cost Consciousness – Balances infrastructure improvements with business and budget realities.
- Teamwork – Collaborates effectively with IT and business stakeholders to achieve shared goals.
Education
- Relevant networking or security certifications preferred (CCNA, CCNP, Network+, Security+).
- BA/BS in Computer Science, Information Technology, Networking, or equivalent experience.