Network Engineer - Day Shift

Job ID: 2502762

Location: SUFFOLK, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-03-05

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Network Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 25 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is looking for a Network Engineer with experience in US Navy IT networks to support the sustained operation and maintenance of a newly deployed US Navy enterprise transport network, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability. The position will support end-to-end network, system, and element visibility; facilitate rapid operations, administration, maintenance, and provisioning to maintaining the operational integrity of a mission-critical network, requiring both technical expertise and a commitment to excellence in service delivery. This position will work a schedule of 7AM - 3 PM, 5 days per week to include weekends and a rotating on call requirement.

Work will be performed at the Navy customer's site in Suffolk, VA.

Job is contingent on award of funding in May/June 2025.

Specific duties include:

• Provide Tier 1 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or escalate to Tier 2/Tier 3 support as required.
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance.
• Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments.
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations.
• Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions.
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures.
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures.
• Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment.
• Enact change management for the solution.
• Operate and maintain existing incident management processes.
• Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment.
• Support the design, analysis, planning, modification and maintenance of the network and network components supporting data, voice and/or audio communication activities.
• Support analysis of short/long term capacity needs for switching, routing transmission and signaling.
• Conducts testing of network systems.
• Support the evaluation of new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.

Qualifications

Required Education and Years of Experience:

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and two (2) years relevant experience supporting a large network infrastructure.
  • 4 years of additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree.

Required Security Clearance:

• Secret Clearance required.

Required Skills and Experience:

• Experience required with: Routing Protocols (OSPF, BGP); Access Control Lists; Layer 2 Switching; Spanning Tree; Packet Analysis; SPINE-LEAF architecture.
• Experience with the following is a plus: Arista switches; Palo Alto Firewalls; TAP and network visibility (i.e. Gigamon, NetScout); SD-WAN and Spine-Leaf Architecture; working with VLANs and VRFs; configuring IPSEC tunnels; and troubleshooting routing issues.
• Working knowledge of SD-WAN, Routers, Switches, Firewalls, and Virtual Private Network devices.
• Understanding of TCP/IP in regard to routing and subnetting.
• Capable of supporting TACACS+ on Cisco ISE and ISE Cube.

Required Certifications:

• IAT Level II required (Sec +), CCNA/CCNP.

Working Environment:

• Able to work shifts to cover a 24x7 operational environment.
• Able to cover on-call schedule on a rotating basis.
• Travel up to 25% may be required.