Senior Network Engineer

Job ID: 2509529

Location: COLORADO SPRINGS, CO, US

Date Posted: 2025-09-08

Category: Information Technology

Subcategory: Network Engineer

Schedule: Full-time

Shift: Day Job

Travel: Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required: TS/SCI

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None

Potential for Remote Work: No

Description

SAIC is excited to announce a Network Engineering role on the Network Information Technology Enterprise Services (NITES) supporting our government customer NORAD NOTRHCOM in Colorado Springs, Colorado. This position is on-site and prime aligned. SAIC seeks an engineering technical expert to bring value to the customer through alignment with the NITES contractors and ongoing emerging deep technical solutions. This position will require technical long-range planning with short-term functional solutions to reach broad DoD mandates. This is a technically aligned position and will require touch labor as well as a strategic mindset to be successful.

***This position is onsite in Colorado Springs, CO and requires an active TS/SCI clearance***

We are looking for an Expert Network Engineer and dedicated professional with an equivalent amount of education and combined experience that can solve real world short and long term technical problem-sets.

• Automation and Orchestration of ITSM related technologies - Kubernetes - RedHat - Ansible - Terraform - Puppet Cloud Formation
• Strong background in scripting technologies with working knowledge of Python and or PowerShell, Bash
• Experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS), CloudFormation, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
• Experience with cloud computing, including PaaS, IaaS and SaaS
• Experience with CaaS (e.g., Kubernetes and OpenShift)
• A Tier III O&M Network Engineer to support the customer's various wide area networks (WANs) and local area networks (LANs). This position will provide routing to an enterprise level infrastructure across multiple classifications and act as subject matter experts in routing technologies across multiple vendors

The job duties of Tier III O&M Network Engineer are as follows:

• Tier III O&M of Juniper and Cisco routers include extensive troubleshooting at the layer 2 and layer 3 level and implementation of routing changes
• Troubleshooting network issues related to connectivity, latency, asymmetric routing
• Implementation of routing and troubleshooting issues related to the following protocols: OSPF, BGP, MPLS, VRF's, VPN's
• Support technical exchange meetings to help resolve other ISP and application owner issues
• Support problem management to conduct root cause analysis of recurring issues
• Provide day-to-day Operations and Maintenance (O&M) support for incident management events and outages
• Collaborate with IT staff on projects and initiatives
• Work with corresponding technical support teams as required to resolve network traffic concerns
• Utilize monitoring tools and log collectors to provide in-dept analysis of traffic anomalies and issues
• Candidate will be on call after hours on a rotational basis
• Not required but experience with Palo Alto, Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA), and Forcepoint firewall equipment and applications is a plus

Requirements:

• Cisco Certifications CCNA or CCNP preferred
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting Juniper and Cisco routers and switches
• Experience with protocols such as OSPF, BGP, VPN's, VRF's, MPLS
• Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies
• Demonstrated ability to engineer and modify rulesets to allow connectivity for new customer requirements
• Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and develop schematic diagrams, technical manuals, and documentation such that the supported equipment and software can be maintained with minimal training
• Working knowledge of Service Now or similar IT Service Management (ITSM) products
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI
• BS + 9 years experience. Additional experience can be used in lieu of a degree
• Must comply with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 Certification (i.e. Security+)
• Cisco Certifications CCNA or CCNP preferred
• Experience with configuring and troubleshooting Juniper and Cisco routers and switches
• Experience with protocols such as OSPF, BGP, VPN's, VRF's, MPLS
• Understanding of routing, switching, Internet Protocol (IP) subnet, Network Address Translation (NAT) and security technologies
• Demonstrated ability to engineer and modify rulesets to allow connectivity for new customer requirements
• Demonstrated ability to read, understand, and develop schematic diagrams, technical manuals, and documentation such that the supported equipment and software can be maintained with minimal training
• Working knowledge of Service Now or similar IT Service Management (ITSM) products
• Superior verbal and written communication skills
• Intermediate-level knowledge of MS Office products to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Visio
  
  Preferred Skills and Certifications:
  
  
• Experience with military or coalition air domain operations and communications systems
• Familiarity with DoD architecture frameworks and system acquisition lifecycle
• Prior experience supporting joint or coalition DoD networks
• Strong system documentation, diagramming, and technical leadership skills

Target salary range: $120,001 - $160,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.