- Location: Annapolis Junction, Maryland
- Type: Contract
- Job #3998
Title: Network Engineer 3
Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
Compensation Range: $210 -$230K
*Clearance: *Active TS/SCI w/ Polygraph needed to apply *
Company Overview: Cornerstone Defense is the Employer of Choice within the Intelligence, Defense, and Space communities of the U.S. Government. Realizing early on that our most prized assets are our employees, we continually focus our attention on improving the overall work/life experience they have supporting the mission. Our Team is pushed every day to use their industry leading knowledge to provide end-to-end solutions to combat our nation's toughest and most secure problems. If you are looking for a place to not only be professionally challenged, but encouraged and supported by a company that cares, don't look any further than Cornerstone Defense.
Benefits Overview:
Cornerstone Defense offers a very comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to: Medical, Dental and Vision Plans * Generous PTO Policy * 401(k) * HSA and FSA options * Life and Disability Insurance * Tuition Reimbursement and Training * Perks at Work Discount Program * Referral Program * Leads Generation Program * CollegeAmerica 529 * Fitness Reimbursement Program * Travel Assistance * Norton Lifelock Benefit Solutions * Life Planning Financial & Legal Services *
Qualifications: - Twelve (12) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support is required.
- A Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline is required. A Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security Systems Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university may be substituted for two (2) years of experience, thereby reducing the total years of experience to ten (10). Five (5) additional years of relevant experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
Core Tasks: - Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks. Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents.
- Performs general LAN/CAN/WAN administration. Schedules conversions and cutovers.
- Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture.
- Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately.
- Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance to all network equipment. (U) Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
- Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
- Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems.
- Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits a report of suspected physical incident immediately.
- Configure and maintain organization's network diagrams and accreditations.
Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.
- Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.
- Design, integrate, test, and deploy solutions to established network issues.
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
- Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow.
- Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT).
- Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize down time.
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies.
- Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements.
- Manage, develop work schedules and direct the work of junior level engineers.
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