Network Engineer with Security Clearance

About the Role

Mantis Security is seeking a Network Engineer to join our team of experts, specializing in Cyber Operations, Cyber Defense, Information Assurance, Software Development, DevSecOps, Security Engineering, and Cloud Engineering. As a Network Engineer, you will play a crucial role in enabling and protecting our nation's most important IT assets.

Responsibilities

• Perform research, requirements analysis, design, installation, documentation, troubleshooting, and sustainment of local- and wide-area network hardware and services.
• Develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation.
• Develop risk management and mitigation strategies.
• Maintain compliance with QA standards and ensure service performance indicators are met or exceeded.
• Review Mission-related change requirements, such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs), and determine impacts on Transport activities across the Enterprise.
• Provide technical solutions and cost impact assessments.
• Engineer and implement solutions for projects based on customer Change Requests.
• Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects.
• Provide recommendations on newly submitted action items and coordinate issues with appropriate owners/organizations.
• Elicit requirements using various methods, including interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis, and test/workflow analysis.
• Write requirement specifications according to standard templates and decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.
• Perform requirement analysis and verification, ensuring requirements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and conform to standards.
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the review process.
• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts.
• Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance network capacity, performance, and reliability.
• Follow all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with Government policies.
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in a relevant field (additional 4 years of experience may substitute for degree).
• Minimum 10 years of relevant experience in addition to education level.
• Current DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNA (or equivalent) certifications.
• Experience working in a DoD or IC environment is desired.
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.

Qualifications

• Understanding of requirements engineering according to hardware/software development life cycles in a team environment.
• Knowledge of product management concepts and Enterprise network product positioning and implementation.