Type of Requisition:Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:Secret
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:Secret
Public Trust/Other Required:None
Job Family:IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:Skills:Cisco Technologies, Communication Network, Network Engineering
Certifications:None
Experience:10 + years of related experience
ship Required:Yes
Job Description:NETWORK ENGINEER SR PRINCIPALTransform technology into opportunity as a Network Engineer Sr Principal at GDIT. Shape what's next for mission-critical government projects while shaping what's next for your engineering career.
Position OverviewThe Network Engineer Sr. Principal is a high-impact, hybrid role combining the strategic foresight of a Network Architect with the hands-on technical mastery of a Senior Network Engineer. In this position, you will serve as a technical authority for our enterprise network infrastructure. You will be responsible for translating long-term business and mission requirements into secure, scalable, and resilient network architectures, while simultaneously leading the deployment, automation, and optimization of those designs.
Core Job Roles & Strategic Responsibilities- Assistant Network Architect: Serve as technical designer for the network infrastructure, establishing architectural standards, technical roadmaps, and next-generation design patterns (including SD-WAN, Zero Trust, and Cloud/Hybrid integrations).
- Engineering Authority: Act as the ultimate technical escalation point for critical network operations, overseeing the implementation of complex network modifications, migrations, and hardware refreshes.
- Technical Mentor & Advisor: Mentor senior and junior engineering staff, cultivate a culture of technical excellence, and serve as the primary advisor to executive leadership on emerging networking technologies and budget forecasts.
- Security & Compliance Steward: Partner with the cybersecurity team to design and enforce defense-in-depth network architectures, ensuring strict alignment with security protocols, compliance frameworks, and industry best practices.
Daily & Operational Duties- Architectural Blueprinting: Design end-to-end logical and physical network topologies, IP routing schemes, and traffic engineering strategies using advanced design software.
- Hands-on Implementation: Lead the configuration, deployment, and optimization of core enterprise network devices, including backbone routers, multi-layer switches, next-generation firewalls, and application delivery controllers.
- Automation Development: Write, review, and maintain production-grade automation scripts and configuration playbooks using tools such as Python, Ansible, and Terraform to eliminate manual configuration drift.
- Vendor and Capacity Analysis: Analyze network telemetry data to monitor capacity thresholds, proactively design expansion plans, and lead technical evaluations/proof-of-concepts with major hardware and cloud vendors.
- Advanced Troubleshooting: Provide Tier 4 escalation support for complex network outages, utilizing packet-capture analysis (Wireshark) and telemetry tools to perform root-cause analysis on highly elusive issues.
- Collaborative Planning: Author comprehensive engineering specifications, deployment guides, and operational standard operating procedures (SOPs) to ensure smooth handoffs to network operations teams
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEEDBring your engineering expertise along with a drive for innovation to GDIT. The Network Engineer Sr Principal must have:
- Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
- Experience: 10+ years of related experience
- Technical skills: Routing and Switching, MPLS, BGP, OSPF, and other advanced tier 3 Network Engineering Skills.
- Security clearance level: Secret
- ship required
- Role requirements: this position is for a junior architect. You will need to be able to work independently and with direction. You will also need to be able to mentor other technicians and engineers.
GDIT IS YOUR PLACEAt GDIT, the mission is our purpose, and our people are at the center of everything we do.
- Growth: AI-powered career tool that identifies career steps and learning opportunities
- Support: An internal mobility team focused on helping you achieve your career goals
- Rewards: Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages, 401K with company match, and competitive pay and paid time off
- Flexibility: Full-flex work week to own your priorities at work and at home
- Community: Award-winning culture of innovation and a military-friendly workplace
OWN YOUR OPPORTUNITYExplore an enterprise IT career at GDIT and you'll find endless opportunities to grow alongside colleagues who share your desire to drive operations forward.
The likely salary range for this position is $142,792 - $172,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Total compensation for international positions varies by tax, social security, and immigration statuses, as well as location. Generally, an international assignment may include allowances, premium uplifts, and/or relocation or transportation benefits, above base salary range noted.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:40
Travel Required:Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:Onsite
Work Location:International
Additional Work Locations:Total Rewards at GDIT:Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes.
About Our Work:We are GDIT. A global technology and professional services company that delivers technology solutions and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading mission-ready capabilities in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.
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