{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"4de31258385a2eabaa91b5dc","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4de31258385a2eabaa91b5dc","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/4de31258385a2eabaa91b5dc","title":"Network Engineer","description":"Who we are! Platinum Technologies is a Washington DC-based integrated solutions firm that specializes in Cybersecurity, Cloud and Digital Services to the Public Sector. Our team provides high-end, quality resources to help our Mission Partners realize their goals. If you are self-motivated, possess demonstrated learning agility, and are passionate about delivering high-quality work products – we want to hear from you. We lead with technical expertise, but that is just the tip of the iceberg – the ‘Why’ matters. At Platinum, we don’t hire people to do a job. We provide professional and leadership development to complement our self-motivated domain experts. Our teammates are dot-connecting leaders that operate in a mutually accountable environment to deliver thought leadership, expert technical analysis, and quality execution for our clients.\nWe are seeking a Network Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD.\nPROGRAM SUMMARY:\nThe DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires 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 towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet.\nCLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:\nMust possess an active SECRET clearance or higher. (US Citizenship required)\nPRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:\n•Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate or migrate connectivity services under an enterprise service.\n•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.\n•Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.\n•Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.\n•Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.\n•Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.\n•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.\n•Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.\n•Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.\nRequired Skills:\nMinimum of a Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years' experience or Master's degree with 6+ years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).\nRequire active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.\nExperience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure\nExperienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.\nExperience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.\nExperience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider.\nAlternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.\nPlatinum Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. 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