Sr. Network Engineer

About the role

The DES program is a highly demanding mission requiring expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort aimed at consolidating Department of Defense (DOD) IT services into a single service provider model.

Responsibilities

• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.
• Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
• Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.
• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.
• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.
• Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.
• Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
• Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.

Requirements

Primary Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree and 8+ years of prior relevant experience.
• Active DoD Secret clearance.
• Active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent.
• Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw).
• Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
• Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.
• Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider.
• Experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.
• Broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
• Experience in working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.
• Broadly experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.
• Broad experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
• Ability to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Qualifications

Qualifications:

• Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.
• Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.
• Hands on experience with SD-WAN.
• Expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.
• Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.
• Experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

Skills

Skills:

• Clearance Requirement: Active DoD Secret clearance.
• DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent.
• Experience in enterprise network management tools such as PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What’s Up Gold, or Junos Space.
• Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.
• Hands on experience with SD-WAN.
• Expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.
• Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.
• Experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

Benefits

Benefits:

• Competitive compensation.
• Health and Wellness programs.
• Income Protection.
• Paid Leave.
• Roth IRA.
• Retirement.

Pay

Pay Range: $92,300.00 - $166,850.00

Schedule

Full-Time