Network Engineer Wired SME

Support enterprise-wide IT projects for new construction, renovations, and Enterprise IT projects. The program provides strategic guidance, project planning, oversight, and management for the implementation of Enterprise technology across new construction, renovations, and IT projects within the agency. Through coordination and collaboration with key stakeholders and end-user groups, the program ensures that all initiatives are planned, designed, constructed, integrated, and delivered using a hybrid systems development and systems engineering lifecycle (SDLC and SELC) methodology. This approach guarantees the deployment of the latest and most advanced Enterprise technology, driving efficiency, innovation, and sustainability.

Gathers Stakeholder's user network requirements utilizing multiple methodologies to provide necessary technical documentation, system requirements documents, systems security requirements documents, scope of work, and system test plan.

Design, install, maintain, and evaluate network systems and communications systems.

Troubleshoot and resolve network issues involving various protocols, topologies, networking hardware, etc. Assist with network architecture design, feasibility, and cost studies.

Utilize knowledge of internetworking, computer systems, routers, switches, firewalls, and peripherals to enhance understanding of current network designs and to collaborate with other team members to develop new network designs.

Apply technical and business experience and understanding to improve processes and procedures for deploying and maintaining network infrastructure.

Work independently and collectively to help improve network solutions and contribute to network service improvements.

Support Continuity of Operations (COOP) operations as needed.

Responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include switches, firewalls, load balancers, software defined networking, private cloud requirements, etc.

Subject matter expert (SME) advisor for verifying building IT, network design and construction documentation.

Will be required to read, understand, and apply existing industry standards to complex IT documents affecting network infrastructure projects. Examples of documents include detailed network, block connect, wireline and elevation, configuration management diagrams, blueprints, construction narratives, building Program of Requirements (PORs), agreements, contracts, work letters, project charters, surveys, drawings, proposals, and other similar documents.

Expected to work in cross-team collaboration, stakeholder communication, and provide executive demonstrations/presentations.

Baseline infrastructure of Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure to include software defined networking.

Required Skills

Active TS or SCI and eligible for Poly

13 years in IT and Networking.

Have previous government network experience, experience creating, editing, and verifying building IT and network design and construction documentation, experience reading, understanding, and applying existing industry standards to complex IT documents affecting network infrastructure projects. Examples of this would include: detailed network, block connect, wireline and elevation, configuration management diagrams, blueprints, construction narratives, building Program of Requirements (PORs), agreements, contracts, work letters, project charters, surveys, drawings, proposals, and other similar documents. Experienced with Cisco and Juniper network infrastructure to include software defined networking.

Experience gathering requirements, cross-team collaboration, stakeholder communication, and executive demonstrations/presentations.