Network Test Engineer – Secret Clearance |Fort Meade, MD

About the role

Join a dynamic global team united by shared values: commitment, integrity, and perseverance. At Cambridge, you’ll work alongside top talent worldwide, tackling some of today’s most complex and critical challenges in defense and security. We are currently seeking a Network Test Engineer to support operations in Fort Meade, MD. This is a full-time, CONUS position requiring an active DoD Secret clearance.

Responsibilities

• Be responsible for engineering, testing, implementing, and providing Tier III support for all Gateway initiatives ensuring mission success
• Design, build, test, implement and maintain Gateway engineering solutions
• Design engineering enhancements, develop engineering change requests and provide all required documentation in support of Configuration Control Boards (CCB)
• Provide technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex DoD networks
• Support mission partners to satisfy the interoperability requirements
• Design architecture to include software, hardware, and communications to support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces
• Evaluates analytically and systematically problems of workflows and network usage, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective action
• Analyze existing and planned gateway solutions and architectures and make recommendations
• Configure various routers, switches, firewalls, voice gateways, unified communication managers
• Utilize advanced security devices including High Assurance Internet Protocol Encryptor (HAIPE), crypto ignition keys and SIPRNet hard tokens
• Apply system patches, security patches and third-party updates to maintain systems at a high level of performance, availability, and security
• Develop detailed test plans, test reports, implementation plans, configuration guides and other technical documentation
• Deliver timely resolution and document troubleshooting procedures to mitigate impact of issues and improve infrastructure performance
• Perform incident response tasks and services restoration
• Review security requirements set by DoD agencies for the NIPRNET network protection; assess and analyze current NIPRNET network architecture; propose and analyze potential solutions. Review security threats to the current DoD NIPRNet/Internet gateway IA infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determines/