Network Engineer III

Responsibilities

• Develop and deploy communications architectures to meet dynamic mission requirements across multiple ranges.
• Design, install, maintain, and repair deployable communications sites, ensuring optimal performance and reliability.
• Rout data with type 1 encryption between various ranges and sites, ensuring secure and reliable communication.
• Configure and secure enterprise services, including routers, switches, firewalls, and access control solutions.
• Troubleshoot and optimize routing protocols such as OSPF and EIGRP, along with QoS, VPNs, and Spanning Tree Protocol.
• Interface with analog voice communications systems across multiple locations to ensure seamless integration.
• Maintain and update systems with patches to comply with Risk Management Framework (RMF) Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) requirements.
• Collaborate with systems administrators on other standalone systems to improve their network architecture.
• Develop comprehensive system documentation, including standard operating procedures and network drawings.
• Regularly report project status to the Lead Network Engineer and Senior Management.

Qualifications

• Required: Bachelor's degree in Network Engineering, Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field with 5-7 years of experience, MS 3-5 years of experience, PhD 0-2 years of experience.
• Valid Security+ or DoD Directive 8570.01 IAT Level II certification (required for the program).
• Valid Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification or higher (may consider ability to obtain within 90 days of hire).
• 3+ years of general work experience designing, developing, and implementing network architecture.
• 3+ years of experience configuring and troubleshooting routers, switches, and associated network protocols such as OSPF, EIGRP, and Rapid PVST.
• 3+ years of experience supporting network security hardware and solutions like Cisco ASA firewalls, IPSEC, Access Control Lists (ACLs), and Network Address Translation (NAT).
• Experience with network analysis tools such as SolarWinds and Wireshark.
• Experience with Visio.
• Possess and maintain a Secret clearance.