Senior Network Administrator

Job ID: 2505563

Location: CHANTILLY, VA, US

Date Posted: 2025-05-12

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Network Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Poly

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC has an opening for a Senior Network Administrator. This position is based on site in Chantilly, VA.

Duties include:

• Configuring and maintaining a classified network and unclassified lab of both juniper and cisco devices to include routers, firewalls, and switches.
• Working with server team to assist with any network needs to include VLAN changes, IP management, and firewall rule changes.
• Leading activities to architect, design, build, and test network systems and components.
• Evaluating network product usability, affordability, functionality, security, and performance to assess suitability for integration into classified environment.
• Maintaining compliance with customer requirements.
• Building and maintaining robust documentation.
• Network Operations.

Qualifications

Required Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree and 5+ years of experience, or a Master's Degree and 3+ years of experience. An additional 4+ years of experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 2+ years of experience as a Network Engineer.
• Ability to obtain CISSP or CASP within six months of employment.
• 2+ years Intelligence Community or DOD supporting networks.
• Understanding of Cisco and/or Juniper network devices and cable plants, network fundamentals, LAN / WAN technologies, the ISO layer model, TCP/IP, and data communications systems and protocols.
• Basic configuration knowledge in switching, routing, and firewalls.
• Experience with packet capture tools and traffic analysis.
• Working knowledge of Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Experience in troubleshooting and building technical solutions.
• Experience in IT operations, servers, storage, networks, systems management, Disaster Recovery (DR), and Business recovery practices.
• Experience in management of production networks in an operations environment.
• Establishing a track record of reliability and trust with team members and security stakeholders is essential.
• Experience with Visio.

Desired Experience:

• CISSP or CASP certification.
• Cisco or Juniper certification.
• Windows Server knowledge.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.