Senior Network Engineer at AMERICAN SYSTEMS
San Antonio, TX
$96,800–$161,500from the description
Jul 5, 2026
San Antonio, TX
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior-level network engineering role supporting a Department of Defense medical agency in the Pacific Region, serving as a technical lead and regional point of contact for LAN, WLAN, and WAN infrastructure. Day-to-day work covers routing, security, troubleshooting, performance evaluation, and standards development across a complex DoD environment. Suits an experienced network engineer holding active CCNP, CISSP, and DoD IAM Level III certifications with a SECRET clearance.
Senior level · 5+ years · National · Secret clearance · Full-time
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How this req sits in the market our data
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Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $101,310 (middle half $79,725–$129,425). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (9)
Location is described only as 'Pacific Region' supporting a DoD agency — no specific city or CBSA could be determined. The role is likely based at a Pacific-area military installation (e.g., Hawaii or Japan); the US-based flag is set to true as a default since the posting is from a US contractor and no foreign country is explicitly named as the work location.
A Bachelor's degree is listed as the baseline, but the JD explicitly accepts a certified technical/vocational school plus 10 years of experience as a substitute, so no minimum degree is hard-gated.
The 5-year experience floor is stated directly ('at least five years of directly related experience'); the 10-year path is an alternative to the degree, not an additional experience gate.
DoD Directive 8570.01 IAM Level III certification is a hard requirement alongside CCNP and CISSP — all three are explicitly required in the Qualifications section.
ARMIS and Ansible appear in the required qualifications body text alongside SolarWinds Orion as named diagnostic/administration tools, so all three are treated as hard gates.
OpenVMS is mentioned as a required proficiency environment but is an extremely niche legacy OS; it is captured implicitly under the broad OS proficiency requirement rather than listed as a standalone skill, as it is unlikely to be a standalone rejection criterion in practice.
The alt SOC (15-1212 Information Security Analysts) reflects the significant security posture of this role (CISSP, IDS, firewalls, Zero Trust, DoD 8570), though the primary day-to-day work is network engineering and operations.
Ignored 2 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): DoD 8570 IAM Level III, network automation/orchestration.
Requires a Secret clearance — the cleared population is a small fraction of this occupation, so the real candidate pool is materially smaller than the estimate below, which does not model clearance.
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