Network Engineer, Sr.
Your Impact
Own your opportunity to serve as a critical component of our nation’s safety and security. Make an impact by using your expertise to protect our country from threats.
Job Description
GDIT has an exciting and challenging opportunity available for a Network Engineer supporting an Intelligence Community customer’s wide-area (WAN), local-area (LAN) and campus-area (CAN) networks across multiple security domains in Springfield, VA.
Focus will be on Network Engineering, new project requirements, and operation and sustainment of existing infrastructure. This position does require at least 25% travel.
Coordination of system maintenance, monitoring and installation of multiple WAN/LAN environments encompassing multiple specializations, platforms and technologies.
Assist with research and implementation of enterprise system-wide network solutions/capabilities/enhancements to support customer business/mission goals and objectives.
Troubleshoot and resolve network media and components.
Evaluate and monitor health and performance of the network including hardware and management software.
Develop and maintain a road map for capabilities, operations, and technologies.
Assist with development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation of all network configuration upgrades, additions or revisions for customer approval before implementation.
Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives.
Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance capacity, performance and reliability of the network.
Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization and industry best practices
Follows all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensures compliance with all Government policies.
Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.
Perform site surveys to new installations and technology refresh.
Installs, maintains and troubleshoots satellite communications equipment.
Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.
Qualifications:
Security Clearance: active TS/SCI
8+ years related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques
4+ years’ experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high paced diverse environment
Understanding and experience with the DoD Architecture Framework and other key DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions
Experience with Juniper, switches, routers, and firewalls. (MX, EX, SRX devices) Cryptographic devices (KG-175G/X, KG-245A/X)
Experience with Network analysis tools (HP/Microfocus Network Automation and Network Node Manager, Juniper Secure Analytics, Infoblox, Riverbed.)
Experience with Juniper firewall/VPN equipment (SRX series)
Experience with supporting IP services to connect to NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS (IPv4, VPN, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc)
Experience with OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP/LDP L2/3VPNs, VRFs, IKE/IPSec, GRE tunnels, MTU, FTP, Import/Export policies.
Certifications: IAT II
Desired:
Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field
JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, CISCO CCNP, CCVP, CCNA or CCDP (or equivalent)
ITIL v3 Foundations
ISC2 CISSP
CompTIA Security +
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Work Requirements
Years of Experience
8 + years of related experience
may vary based on technical training, certification(s), or degree
Certification
CompTIA Security+ CE | CompTIA - CompTIA
Travel Required
25-50%
Citizenship
U.S. Citizenship Required
Salary and Benefit Information
The likely salary range for this position is $107,744 - $141,450. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
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