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Senior Network Systems Engineer

Fort Meade, MD

Overview:

Job Title: Senior Network Systems Engineer

Security Clearance: Top Secret

Location: Fort Meade, MD

(Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements, U.S. Citizenship is required.)

 

Description:

C3EL is seeking an experienced Senior Network Systems Engineer to provide network operations and engineering sustainment support to a mission critical IP messaging and communications transport network. A successful candidate will develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program, and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements. 

Responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:

  • Network integration, testing, security engineering, and implementation configuration support.
  • Collaborate with network architects to define and/or continuously improve STIG compliant configuration baselines, versioning, and compliance tracking.
  • Test and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
  • Lead development of SOPs/TTPs.
  • Support Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
  • Support system performance tuning and enhancements.
  • Create and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP).
  • Support tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
  • Active participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management activities.
  • Participate in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and engineering providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to be deployed into production.
  • Perform highly technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, and load balancers.
  • Provide expert knowledge of network engineering and operations, large scale enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities.
  • Perform highly technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches, security solutions, and WANX.

 

Minimum Qualifications:

  • U.S. Citizenship.
  • An active, in-scope US Government issued Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility.
  • Security+ Certification or other DOD 8570 IAT Level II Certification within a certain timeframe after starting if not starting with one when hired.
  • 8+ years’ experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including extensive routing and switching experience such as one or more of the following: MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.
  • Extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security architecture, network topology, IT device integrity, and common security elements.
  • Strong understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
  • Hands-on experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise network routing, switching and firewall/security devices.
  • Experienced and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents, analyses, and reports.
  • Experience developing and presenting technical information to senior customer management, customer stakeholders, and company management.
  • Ability to work in a team environment with excellent  written and oral communication, interpersonal skills, and problem-solving skills.
  • Ability to travel up to 10% including OCONUS potential travel.

 

Desired Qualifications:

  • Extensive SME level knowledge of network engineering and operations, integration, test and evaluation activities, as well as implementation and transition to Network Operations processes and concepts.
  • Cisco CCNP Route/Switch and/or CCNP Security.
  • Experience and with and practical understanding of enterprise WAN principles.
  • Experience with change, configuration and performance management NetOps concepts.
  • IAT Level III Certification (i.e. CISSP or equivalent). 

 

Education:

  • Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. (Additional years of related work experience may be substituted for a degree at the Hiring Manager's discretion.)

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