Network Engineer III

Job Description

SALARY RANGE $157,000 - $214,000/year.

DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Network Engineer III role you will provide assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks; Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents; Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment; Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.

Required Skills

SKILLS

• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
• Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems
• Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits a report of suspected physical incident immediately
• Configure and maintain the organization's network diagrams and accreditations
• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations
• Design, integrate, test, and deploy solutions to established network issues
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories, and tasking organizations, and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping, Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
• Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize downtime
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies
• Applies Network Acceleration techniques such as Riverbed
• Conducts inventories as directed (e.g., semiannually/annually)
• Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately
• Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance of all network equipment
• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
• Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment, and network simulators
• Assists System engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements

QUALIFICATIONS Twelve (12) years' experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. A bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Additional Requirements:

• Minimum of 3 years as a Network Engineer within the last 3 years
• Experience with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls
• Proficient with Linux and or Windows system administration experience is a plus

CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES A CCNA or CCNP certification is required, as well as a Security+ certification.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Experience patching and upgrading Linux servers and networking resources
• Ansible/Salt scripts
• AWS/VMs