Senior Network Engineer
Company | Peraton |
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Location | Alexandria, VA, USA |
Salary | $146000 – $234000 |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | Bachelor’s, Master’s, PhD |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- An active/current TS/SCI Security Clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in engineering (or similar technical field) and 12 years relevant experience; or a Master’s degree and 10 years of relevant experience; or a PhD with seven (7) years of experience. 16 years of relevant experience in the above-cited duties may be substituted in lieu of a completed higher education degree.
- A current/valid IAT LVL III Certification (Security+ CE, CCNP, CCNP Security, CISA, CISSP, GCED, GCIH, and CCSP).
- Experience with the design, implementation, and support of network infrastructure solutions for routing and switching of complex networks.
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting WAN topologies leveraging Ethernet, T-Carrier, and Optical Carrier circuits.
- Experience and understanding of networking fundamentals such as network protocols and common services (e.g., DNS, FTP, SSH, SNMP).
- Implementation and troubleshooting experience of networks using concepts/protocols such as BGP, OSPF, MPLS, VPNs and emerging concepts such as Software Defined Networking.
- Prior experience supporting a Government and/or Department of Defense customer.
- Ability and willingness to travel to domestic customer sites, as per customer needs.
- Willingness and flexibility to provide scheduled support of occasional ASI/outages after hours and on weekends.
Responsibilities
- Create/modify network drawings, author system engineering documents and plans.
- Support design, test, and pre-deployment readiness reviews.
- Support the network operations of the Production system.
- Provides team with recommendations on modern engineering approaches and strategies to improve successful task order deployments.
- Develops, implements, and manages network engineering processes including configuration management and design standards to ensure contract compliance, technological relevancy, and sustainability.
- Performs capacity planning of the network by monitoring and analyzing network performance and availability.
- Pro-actively researches and evaluates tools and technologies, as appropriate, to the network environment, while developing solutions to increase performance and lower the total cost of ownership.
Preferred Qualifications
- An Engineering degree with a networking focus.
- Eight (8+) total years of experience in the architecture/design, development, and implementation of Wide Area Network (WAN) architecture.
- Exceptional verbal, written (including the development of CONOPS and procedural documentation), interpersonal, and presentation skills.
- Experience using Python to automate routine network tasks.
- Understanding and experience with Software Defined Network (SDN) deployments.
- Juniper Enterprise Routing and Switching, Professional (JNCIP-ENT).
- Advanced Network monitoring and log analysis tool experience with the ability to deploy and improve the current deployments of these systems.
- Experience working in a telecommunications carrier environment performing mission critical network implementations.
- Self-driven and resourceful in achieving goals independently as well as in cooperation with others.
- Experience with application of DoD IAVAs, DISA STIGs, and NIST security controls.