Configuration Management Network Engineer

About the role

BAE Systems, a top ten prime contractor to the U.S. Department of Defense, enables the U.S. government to transform data into intelligence and provides engineering, integration and sustainment support for critical military platforms and systems. Intelligence & Security provides services and products to the Department of War, the intelligence community, federal law enforcement officials, and troops deployed around the world.

Responsibilities

• Support the installation and maintenance of the client LAN/WAN devices.
• Create and maintain an up-to-date record of all system components (hardware and software).
• Illustrate physical locations and links between each item.
• Respond to and resolve incident tickets.
• Establish and maintain consistency of a system or product performance, functions, and physical attributes with its requirements, design, and operational information.
• Draft and implement standard network change requests.
• Cookordination with external Configuration Management stakeholders across the ecosystem where required.
• Cookordination network operations, maintenance, repairs, or upgrades.
• (Knowledge of CISCO/Juniper RMA process).
• LAYER 1 AND LAYER 2 NETWORK EXPERIENCE (CAT5, SM/MM FIBER, SERIAL CABLES, SFP).
• Develop policy for documenting and changing baseline project configuration items.
• Configure and troubleshoot layer 2 switching (VLAN’s, PORT SECURITY, THIN CONFIGS).
• Utilize complex network analysis tools to identify and correct problems in the network while maintaining logs and records associated with reported problems or situations.
• Familiar (doesn't need to be a SME) with LAYER 3 PROTOCOLS SUCH AS OSPF, BGP, VRRP, HSRP, MPLS, LSP, GRE.
• Familiar with VISIO, SERVICE NOW, AND CONFLUENCE.
• Support operations from a Configuration Management perspective in their administration of networks including hardware, systems software, applications software, and all configurations.
• Maintain the network configuration baselines to ensure it follows DISA STIG guidelines, providing feedback to Network Engineers in their development of new configurations.
• Documenting and changing baseline project network configuration items.
• Maintain historical Configuration Management records and requisite knowledge in approved shared databases.
• Provide support to the Configuration Management Board, scheduling meetings, developing agendas, enter board related data in databases, install, maintain and troubleshoot problems for Configuration Control Board action items/issues.
• Manage Configuration Management support to the creation of IT-IA-IM software executables to environments (development, test, staging and production).
• Utilize complex network analysis tools to identify and build network maps for enterprise level services.
• Provide support to the Configuration Control Board (CCB), schedule applicable meetings, develop localized agenda and policy, enter Configuration Management related data in databases, install, maintain and troubleshoot problems for CCB Configuration Management items/issues in relation to your AOR.
• Establish, train, and maintain network drawing standards to serve all contract requirements.
• Ensure final designs comply with regulations and quality standards.
• May have up to 10% COMSEC responsibilities.

Qualifications

• Must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education.
• Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
• Experience with Network Automation (NA), Network Node Manager (NNM), Riverbed, and ServiceNow.
• Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies.
• Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio.
• Ability to represent the team and deliver status reports to internal and external leadership.
• Excellent organizational and follow through skills.
• Strong communication (written and verbal) skills.
• Detail oriented with problem-solving skills.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Palo Alto, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and Forcepoint firewall equipment and applications is a plus.