Senior Network Engineer - TS/SCI Clearance

Strategic Business Systems, Inc. (SBS) is a national information technology services company headquartered in the Washington D.C. metro area. SBS provides IT infrastructure design, integration, and operation services, encompassing the full spectrum of infrastructure technologies, including network, server, data storage, disaster recovery, security, and Internet technologies.

About the role

This position is onsite in Charlottesville, VA, as part of a team ensuring the customer's ability to provide mission-critical intelligence and successful use of its information technology (IT) networks worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Provides installation and operational support of voice and data communications hardware and software systems.
• Designs, develops, implements, tests, debugs, and maintains communications systems.
• Performs configuration of operating system and security patches for host and distributed systems, and implements incident response procedures during incidents of a network or host security breach.
• Reviews customer requirements and makes recommendations for changes to existing technical architecture.
• Complies with prescribed customer, industry, and agency standards.
• Installs, configures, and supports an organization’s local area network (LAN), wide area network (WAN), Agency Internet Network (AIN), Intranet, Internet, and other data communications systems or segments of a network system; maintains network hardware and software; monitors network to ensure availability to all system users and performs necessary maintenance.
• May supervise other network support and client server specialists; plans, coordinates, and implements network security measures; provides leadership and mentorship to junior and mid-level network engineers.
• Oversees network control center; provides support to projects involving networks.
• Performs complex network designs encompassing multiple technologies; evaluates new network technologies and makes recommendations regarding integration into the existing network.
• Plans new configurations for integration into the network, using knowledge of performance characteristics and network interface specifications to ensure effective integration and optimal performance.
• Ensures adequate planning for hardware and communications facilities to develop and implement methodologies for analysis, installation, and support of voice communications systems.
• Provides support in translating business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, MAN, WAN, Voice, and Video) requirements, designs, and orders.
• Mitigates risks, controls costs and schedule variance, and effectively manages large-scale, integrated projects.
• Reviews and/or approves network engineering documentation to ensure processes and specifications meet network needs and are accurate, comprehensive, and complete.
• Establishes and follows formal procedures for coordinating network integration activities among multiple teams, ensuring complete coverage of all interfaces.
• Captures all interface designs in a common interface control format and stores interface data in a commonly accessible repository.

Requirements

• Active Top Secret/SCI security clearance (willing to sit for CI Polygraph).
• U.S. citizenship is required.
• DoD 8570.01-M IAT Level II/8140 Computing Environment (CE) Certification (Security+ or equivalent).
• Required Computing Environment Certification: CCNA (minimum to start) and CCNP within 180 days of start date (CCNP preferred on day one).
• Bachelor’s Degree with 12 years of experience or Master’s Degree with 10 years of experience.
• Willingness to perform moderately strenuous activities, such as lifting IT hardware, reaching/bending/kneeling to plug in cables.
• Travel may be required to support the mission.

Skills

• Network design, implementation, and support (LAN, WAN, AIN, Intranet, Internet).
• Configuration and maintenance of network hardware and software.
• Incident response and network security breach management.
• Technical architecture review and recommendations.
• Project management for large-scale, integrated network projects.
• Leadership and mentorship of junior and mid-level engineers.
• Integration of new network technologies into existing infrastructure.
• Translation of business requirements into telecommunications requirements and designs.
• Documentation review and approval for network engineering processes.