Network Engineer

MTSI is seeking to hire an experienced Network Engineer to work in a DoD Secret Network environment and provide day-to-day support for the development and maintenance of a DoD secure network. The qualified candidate will contribute to the strategy, architecture, and design of the next generation solutions involving network security, segmentation, and automation. This candidate will also work with government customers to identify requirements (cost, functionality, performance), provide networking solutions and drive projects forward.

Job Responsibilities:

• Design, develop, and deploy network infrastructure for a DoD Accredited WAN
• Function as Network site lead and first point of escalation for Infrastructure team
• Perform day-to-day network support tasks associated with modifications and troubleshooting.
• Administer, manage, and maintain all Cisco routers, switches, firewalls, software, and appliances.
• Experience working with Cisco ISE in DoD environments
• Coordinate and Support VTC connections with DoD agencies
• Responsible for troubleshooting for all LAN/WAN alerts and issues
• Responsible for maintenance of all monitoring and reporting systems
• Maintain all documentation for network hardware and software for site location
• Act as an escalation engineer for high severity network related issues, work with engineers and various vendors to identify tactical and strategic solutions.
• Configure and install various network devices and services (e.g., routers, switches, firewalls, QoS)
• Perform network maintenance and system upgrades including service packs, patches, hot fixes and security configurations for DoD STIG compliance
• Monitor performance and ensure system availability and reliability
• Monitor system resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning
• Work within established configuration and change management policies to ensure awareness, approval and success of changes made to the network infrastructure
• Implement and maintain all network security tools, policies, diagrams, and procedures associated with DoD RMF STIG compliance
• Work with vendors and other Network team personnel for problem resolution
• Onsite duty location to support Secret DoD network
• Perform on-call duty for non-business hours support as per shift assignments
• Perform administrative tasks pertaining to time entry and status reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• ship and an active secret level clearance
• 6+ years of proven experience managing large scale multi-vendor networks
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, related analytical field, or equivalent experience
• Cisco CCNA certification
• Experience working with advanced routing protocols such as DMVPN, BGP, OSPF
• Expertise in network designs, routing, Software Defined Networks (SDN), Virtual Networks, Subnets, IPAM, DNS, Firewalls, TCP/IP, IPv4, and IPv6.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting working with DoD networks.
• Cisco CCNP
• COMSEC management knowledge

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