Network Engineer Resume Samples and Writing Guide for 2023 (Layout, Skills, Keywords & Job Description)

Listing specific projects in your resume experience and displaying equipment familiarity builds the hiring manager’s confidence in you and secures you that interview call.
About being vague in your resume – don’t do it!
Vague resume experience by default screams low quality to most hiring managers and is a huge negative.
It isn’t a good idea though to list down everything in a huge list of lines like “worked on BGP, MPLS, RSVP, OSPF, etc”. We will see in the resume experience section on how you can rather add these, gain more visibility* and still be specific.
Don’t add things like TCP/IP, LAN, WAN, Ethernet to your resume experience either. They are pretty obvious for someone who has worked hardwares like Cisco 6509.
Lastly, make sure your resume experience for each job is 4 bullets or more. With that being said, we aren’t advocating 10+ bullets.
Your network engineer experience might be perceived as too weak if you only have 3 or less bullets (it is the design thing – small is bad, big is good).
Now, let’s move on to the resume skills and see what you can do here.

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10 network engineer resume skills that hiring managers demand

LAN and WAN hardware/software
Virtualization
Firewalls – SonicWALL, Cisco, Meraki, etc
Windows Server 2000 through 2016
Backup and Disaster Recovery
Routing Protocols: BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, RIP, IS-IS, TCP/IP, etc
Routers: Cisco, Juniper, Meraki, etc
AP: Fortinet, Ruckus Wireless, Smartcell Gateways, etc
Programming Skills: C++, C, Python, Java, Terraform
Cloud and other skills: Amazon AWS, Synology NAS, vMX100, etc

Pickup any of these resume skills and customize them as per yours. That not only helps you ensure your hiring manager’s increased confidence in you, but it also increases your search visibility.

These keywords actually lead to more chances that your resume would show up when someone searches for a person skilled in any of these skills.

But, if you are an entry level candidate or have a niche specialization, check out the resume skills below.

5 Important Entry Level Network Engineer Resume Skills

Network Administration
Cisco Technologies
Device Drivers
Routers
Technical Support

Note that the skills required for a Network Engineer intern resume are more or less the same as an Entry level resume.

5 important network security engineer resume skills

System Analysis
Disaster recovery
Network Security
Wireless Networking
Virtualization

5 important network support engineer resume skills

Storage Area Network
NAS
System administration
IT Operations
Tools and Technologies: Hyper-V, Windows Server, System Center config manager

5 important data center network engineer resume skills

Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS)
Network Security
VMWare Infrastructure
Support for overall health and maintenance
Network Configuration Management

If you have any of these skills in your resume, add them.

Add relevant network engineering resume certifications.

Most network engineers we talk to already know how incredibly valuable these certifications are. But most end up placing these certifications in places where they are almost invisible to someone trying to scan for them.

Don’t do that. Instead, craft a new section for certifications.

Unless you are doing any funny business here, you certification section should look something like this: