Network Engineering

The Network Engineer provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading existing networks.

Responsibilities

• Analyze designs, specifications, and related documents
• Implement communications system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment
• Analyze network characteristics, troubleshoot problems, and recommend procurement of and/or modifications to network components
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide support for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
• Configure/optimize network to connect to various front- and back-end components
• Coordinate with system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations with minimum down time
• Facilitate implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN/LAN design
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
• Validate new/existing dataflow and data formats
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories, and tasking organizations; understand potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
• Design, integrate, test, and deploy RF communications solutions
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
• Work with Systems Engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements
• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment, and network simulators
• Design, implement, and evaluate security systems
• Contribute to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management
• Support the Government in providing technical leadership to engineering teams
• Recommend corporate solutions to resolve security requirements
• Support the Government in enforcement of design/implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures

Requirements

• 6 - 8 years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
• 4 - 5 years experience with the following Network Tools: What’s Up Gold and NetFlow
• Three years’ experience with DCID 6/3 and/or ICD 503, “Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation”, dated 15 September 2008
• Three years’ experience creating firewall rule sets from analysis of network traffic
• Three years’ experience with component validation of security devices
• Three years’ experience integrating boundary solutions into customer networks
• Three years’ experience configuring switches, routers, and firewalls
• Five years’ demonstrated experience in Computer Network Operations, Protection Level (PL) 3 high/high solutions utilizing Layer 2 to Layer 7
• TS/SCI with Poly Clearance

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required
• Four years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree

Benefits

• Flexible time off benefit
• Access to robust learning resources
• Comprehensive healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, and family support benefits
• Continuing education and time off benefits

Pay

The proposed salary range for this position is $103,800 - $218,100. There are a host of factors that can influence final salary including, but not limited to, geographic location, Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant prior work experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.