Senior Network Engineer

About the role

The Sr. Network Engineer will work within the Network Security Implementation and Sustainment (NSIS) Services section to provide assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents
• Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment
• analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput)
• troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement and/or modifications to network components

Qualifications

• TS SCI w/ Polygraph is required
• Twelve (12) years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university
• Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree
• Five (5) years experience with the following Network Tools; What’s Up Gold and NetFlow
• Five (5) years experience with the following SIGINT tools: Common View/Max View, Triton, and TUMMS
• 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

Skills

• Designs solutions, integrates, configures, deploys, tests and provides support for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies
• Optimizes end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
• Configures/optimizes network to connect to various front- and back-end components
• Captivates and maintains the trust of senior executives and stakeholders
• Facilitates implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN/LAN design
• Implements specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
• Minimizes network latency and maximizes data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
• Manages assigned tasks and provides guidance to junior Network Engineers
• Validates new/existing dataflow and data formats
• Coordinates with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and understands potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
• Designs, integrates, tests and deploys RF communications solutions
• Leads large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
• Works with Systems Engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements
• Solves complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators
• Designs, implements, and evaluates security systems
• Contributes to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management
• Supports the Government in providing technical leadership to engineering teams
• Supports the Government in enforcement of design / implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures

Benefits

• A culture of integrity
• An environment of trust
• A focus on continuous growth

Pay

The Proposed Salary Range For This Position Is $120,800 - $265,800