Lead Network Engineer

• Location: Herndon, Virginia
• Type: Contract
• Job #3896

Title: Lead Network Engineer

Location: McLean, VA

*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *

Company Overview:

Cornerstone Defense, in partnership with our military, intelligence, and civil government customers, supports U.S. operations worldwide through the use of many different types of intelligence, satellite, and cyber technologies. Cornerstone's Intelligence Sector provides solutions to the United States Government for information collection, operations, exploitation and dissemination, and research activities. Our Team specializes in software development, cloud architecture, systems and network engineering, systems integration, agile management, as well as targeting operations and intelligence analysis. Our support to our mission customers includes cyber network operations, exploitation and defense, signals intelligence, human intelligence, and critical missions and networks.

Lead Network Engineer
McLean, VA

Cornerstone Defense is seeking a Network Engineer to support a dynamic network environment hosting several data feeds at varying levels of classification. The Network Engineer will lead an integrated product team supporting a wide variety of complex network configurations related to desktop, server, and storage area network (SAN) hardware.

Responsibilities:

• Act as the lead Network Engineer in developing and implementing IT/network plans.
• Manages network operations using simple network management protocol (SNMP) network management tools.
• Diagnoses and troubleshoots network problems with network protocol capture/decode analyzers.
• Planning and building networks from open systems interconnect (OSI) Layer 1 through Layer 3.
• Manages TCP/IP internetworking connectivity to include addressing and subletting.
• Monitoring network as defined in the network-monitoring plan.
• Installing, configuring, updating, and documenting the physical cable plant.
• Installing, configuring, and managing networking hardware (switches, bridges, hubs, concentrators, transceivers).
• Installing, configuring, and managing network security (firewalls, P, blocking).
• Configuring and managing virtual private networks (VPNs).
• Assist the Systems Administrators as assigned by the Lead System Administrator.
• Serving as the primary point of contact for network engineers from the Office of the CIO and other IT organizations external to the CAC laboratory.

Requirements

• Current TS/SCI with Poly Clearance
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering mathematics, and six (6) years of experience.
• Eight (8) years of experience for a total of fourteen (14) years equivalent experience can be substituted for a degree.
• Six (6) years' experience with Cisco Catalyst switches and other Cisco network hardware.
• Seven (7) years intelligence community experience as a network engineer.