Computer Network Architect (Journeyman)

About the role

Location: St. Inigoes, MD. Clearance: TS with SCI eligibility required. Travel: Up to 40%.

Company Overview: Founded in 2010 and headquartered in Tampa, FL, OWT Global is a small business that offers reliable and operationally proven expertise and support to the U.S. Government, industry partners and commercial vendors. OWT Global prides itself on offering exceptional, industry leading services and solutions in a cost-effective manner for Engineering Support, RDT&E, Technical Program and Project management, operations, logistics, maintenance, and training of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS), Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C5ISR), and Air Domain Awareness and Defense (ADAD) technologies. OWT employs 96% veterans, selectively recruited from the Special Operations, Special Mission Unit, and Intelligence Communities with extensive experience tailored towards support counterterrorism operations and combatting emerging great power competition threats. With this unique foundation of U.S. military special operations, civilian intelligence agency veterans and manned and unmanned aircraft pilots and maintainers, OWT Global brings a blend of skills optimized for today’s dynamic operational needs. The OWT Global model pairs technical acumen with operational application to help drive the development and deployment of technology in a sustainable and affordable way. OWT Global has an operationally proven reputation of UAS expertise spanning pilots, maintainers, instructors, and evaluators. With more than 350,000+ flight hours in combat, test, and training environments on multiple Group 1-5 UAS platforms, our UAS personnel are trusted as subject matter experts by both government and platform stakeholders alike. OWT Global UAS services include deployed combat flight support; integration RDT&E; training, instruction, and certification; and end-to-end UAS program management functions.

Job Summary

OWT Global is seeking a Computer Network Architect (Journeyman) to provide network engineering expertise in support of Integrated Systems Networks (ISN) and enterprise network environments. The Computer Network Architect will support the design, implementation, troubleshooting, and optimization of network architectures while ensuring the availability, security, and high performance connectivity required to support mission operations. The ideal candidate will have hands on experience with enterprise networking, routing and switching, cloud networking, network security, troubleshooting, and distributed network environments.

Responsibilities

• Configure, troubleshoot, and support enterprise routing and switching environments.
• Apply a solid understanding of BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, hot and cold sites, cloud, and on premise network infrastructure characteristics, drawbacks, and benefits.
• Perform deep troubleshooting and identify root causes of complex network issues.
• Diagnose issues involving VLANs, MAC addresses, routing protocols, and network connectivity.
• Understand and troubleshoot application issues that may or may not be caused by network failures.
• Support Layer 2 Ethernet environments, including VXLAN, OTV, spanning tree, switching, and aggregation fundamentals.
• Apply Layer 3 routing knowledge, including BGP, EIGRP, RIP, and OSPF.
• Support network environments utilizing IKE, IKEv2, IPSEC, and MACSEC.