Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

Network Engineer

Primary Responsibilities:

· Support Tier I–III network operations engineering personnel to ensure network troubleshooting efforts are affectively built.

· Oversee real-time monitoring of global enterprise networks using DoD-approved tools (e.g., SolarWinds, NetOps, Splunk, ACAS).

· Develop and enforce operational procedures, incident response workflows, and escalation protocols.

· Interface with mission partners, DISA, Joint Forces, and Combatant Commands on network status, issues, and operational impacts.

· Ensure all network changes follow configuration management (CM) and DoD Change Advisory Board (CAB) procedures.

· Prepare and deliver operational briefs, after-action reports (AARs), and executive summaries to senior leadership.

· Develop and coordinate the network operations team that

· Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.

· Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.

· Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.

· Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.

· Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.

· Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.

· Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.

· Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.

Required Qualifications

· Top Secret Clearance

· Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 4-8 years' experience. (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).

· Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vender certification accepted upon review).

· Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.

· Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, PowerPoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure

· Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.

· Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.

· Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.

· Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.

· Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.

· Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.

· Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.

· Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.

· Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant important to the organization/project.

· Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.

Desired Qualifications

· Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.

· Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as SolarWinds, MECM, Core Light, BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy), JIRA, etc.

· Hands on experience with WAN, LAN, SPPNs, DECCs, compute, storage, capability delivery platforms, telecommunications and circuits

· Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.

· knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.

· Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

· Reporting and Business Applications: Power BI, SharePoint, SQL

Location: Fort Belvoir, VA

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