Lead Telecommunications / Network Infra Engineer
About the role
The Lead Telecommunications/Network Infrastructure Engineer will lead and direct teams of physical infrastructure technicians supporting Inside Plant (ISP) and Outside Plant (OSP) environments within NIWC PAC.
Responsibilities
- Lead, coordinate, and provide technical direction to teams of ISP and OSP cable technicians.
- Plan and oversee structured cabling projects including fiber backbone, copper distribution, and pathway design.
- Develop installation standards for racks, patch panels, fiber enclosures, and cable management systems.
- Validate proper termination, labeling, certification, and documentation of copper and fiber installations.
- Oversee testing using OTDR, fiber certification tools, and copper cable analyzers.
- Review and approve as-built drawings, cable schedules, and infrastructure diagrams.
- Ensure compliance with Navy facility standards, NEC codes, and DoD security requirements.
- Coverage outage windows, cutovers, and infrastructure upgrades with minimal mission disruption.
- Provide daily tasking, quality assurance oversight, and performance accountability for cabling teams.
- Design and implement VLAN architectures and network segmentation strategies.
- Configure trunking, spanning tree, and Layer 2 switching technologies.
- Implement IP addressing schemes, subnetting, and Layer 3 routing configurations.
- Troubleshoot across OSI Layers 1–4, correlating physical faults with logical network behavior.
- Configure and support routing protocols, ACLs, QoS, and secure traffic flows.
- Perform network performance analysis and capacity planning aligned with infrastructure growth.
- Serve as the primary technical authority for physical and logical network infrastructure issues.
- Ensure all installations and configurations comply with DISA STIGs and RMF controls.
- Support vulnerability remediation and secure configuration baselines.
- Coverage change management activities and maintain accurate infrastructure documentation.
- Support incident response and root cause analysis related to physical or network-layer failures.
Requirements
- 8+ years of enterprise network engineering experience.
- Extensive experience leading ISP and OSP cable installation teams.
- Deep understanding of structured cabling standards (TIA/EIA) and fiber/copper infrastructure.
- Hands-on experience designing and implementing VLAN and Layer 3 routing solutions.
- Proven ability to troubleshoot across physical and logical network layers.
Qualifications
- Secret clearance level required.
Skills
- Experience with Cisco CCNP or higher (or equivalent enterprise certification).
- Experience supporting classified enclaves.
- Experience with fiber backbone design and data center buildouts.
- Familiarity with network monitoring and infrastructure documentation platforms.
Benefits
Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans. We also offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program), a 401K program, a Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan, a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program, and other discounts. Professional development includes an on-demand training program, access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars, certification discounts and other perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA. We also have a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants to address questions about benefits and other resources, and a certified Career Coach. For more information on our benefits, programs, support teams, and resources, visit our 'Welcome Packet' provided by an Everforth Apex team member. Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with applicable law.