Sr. Network Engineer

Sr. Network Engineer

Requirements

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 8-12 years’ experience or Master’s degree with 6-10 years of 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 vendor certification accepted upon review)
• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start
• Must possess a current DoD Secret clearance and able to obtain a Top Secret clearance
• 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 vendor 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 importance to the organization/project
• Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals

Responsibilities

• Lead and coordinate Tier I–III network operations engineering personnel to ensure network troubleshooting efforts are effectively 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
• Act as the senior technical point of contact for major outages, network events, or cybersecurity incidents
• 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
• 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

Preferred 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
• Expert 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