Network Engineer - Senior (Top Secret Clearance Required)

Unique Skills / Technical Requirements

• Networking
• Cisco: Switching, Routing, Firewalling, and Site-to-site functionality (such as IPSEC, DMVPN, and SD-WAN)
• Arista: Switching
• Tunneling & VPNs: GRE, IPSEC, SSH, SSL, OpenVPN, Wireguard, and specialized multi-tiered applications
• Virtual Distributed Switching: VMWare, Proxmox, and Nutanix
• Solutions & Hardware: Client-Server VPNs, Site-to-site VPNs, and ad-hoc vendors or equipment
• Virtualization / Hyper-Converged Infrastructure
• VMWare / Broadcom: ESXi (vSphere), vCenter, VSAN, VxRail, Cluster management, and Licensing
• Proxmox: Host and cluster configuration/management, Networking, and Ceph configuration/management
• Nutanix: Host and cluster configuration, management with Prism Central, and NDFS configuration/management
• Large Data Storage Technologies
• Hardware/Vendors: QNAP, Synology, TrueNAS, and NetApp
• File Transport Protocols: Samba, SSH, SFTP, and NFS
• Monitoring & Security
• Monitoring: Network-based and Host-based collection and monitoring
• Alerting & Scanning: Internal and external alerting (including SMTP configuration), and Active vulnerability scanning (such as Nessus)
• SIEM: Splunk familiarity
• System Administration
• Operating Systems: Linux (e.g., Rocky, RedHat, Amazon, Ubuntu), Windows, and Mac OS
• Identity & Access Management: IPA / FreeIPA, LDAP / OpenLDAP, Keycloak, and Linux-based SSSD host-based access control (HBAC)
• Applications
• Splunk, Nginx, Confluence, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, and Jupyter
• Specialized Skillsets
• Advanced Networking: Multi-tiered

Specialized Skillsets

• Advanced Networking: Multi-tiered

System Administration

• Operating Systems: Linux (e.g., Rocky, RedHat, Amazon, Ubuntu), Windows, and Mac OS
• Identity & Access Management: IPA / FreeIPA, LDAP / OpenLDAP, Keycloak, and Linux-based SSSD host-based access control (HBAC)

Applications

• Splunk, Nginx, Confluence, Jira, Docker, Kubernetes, GitLab, and Jupyter

Specialized Skillsets

• Advanced Networking: Multi-tiered

Required Skills

• Extensive experience designing and supporting enterprise network environments
• Strong expertise in routing, switching, firewalls, VPNs, network security, and access control technologies
• Experience implementing zero-trust architectures and secure communications solutions
• Advanced troubleshooting and network performance analysis skills
• Experience supporting mission-critical, highly secure, or regulated environments
• Strong leadership, communication, and technical documentation skills

Preferred Skills

• Master's degree in Information Technology, Network Engineering, Cybersecurity, or related field
• Experience supporting federal, defense, intelligence, or classified network environments
• Expertise with multi-enclave or cross-domain network architectures
• Experience with cloud networking, software-defined networking (SDN), and hybrid cloud environments
• Knowledge of security accreditation processes and compliance frameworks
• Relevant certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, CISSP, JNCIP, JNCIE, AWS Advanced Networking, or equivalent.