Network Engineer III

Description

The company is hiring a full-time, regular Network Engineer III in its Information Technology category to support customer missions.

The work covers research, design, installation, documentation, troubleshooting and ongoing support for local and wide-area network hardware and services.

You will help produce system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and related documentation, and you will build risk management and mitigation plans.

You will keep work compliant with quality assurance standards and help ensure service performance targets are met or exceeded.

The role also involves reviewing mission-related change requests and approved change requests, judging their effect on transport activities across the enterprise, and supplying technical solutions and cost estimates.

Responsibilities

• Analyze requirements, then design and implement project solutions based on customer change requests.
• Act as the technical representative for your assigned projects.
• Review newly submitted action items and make recommendations on them.
• Work with the right owners and organizations to resolve issues.
• Give concurrence on decisions or recommendations by the assigned suspense dates.
• Gather requirements through interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis, and test or workflow analysis.
• Write requirement specifications using standard templates.
• Break high-level business and user needs down into functional requirements.
• Show requirements in alternative forms such as analysis diagrams.
• Verify that requirements are complete, consistent, concise, clear, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and aligned with standards.
• Track requirement traceability and status through the review process.
• Identify requirement errors and defects and write responses to the relevant owners and organizations.
• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization to meet performance and availability goals.
• Evaluate and report on emerging network and communication technologies that could improve capacity, performance, and reliability.
• Recommend changes or technology upgrades that improve performance, standardization, and alignment with industry best practices.
• Follow customer network security processes and procedures and make sure work complies with government policies.
• Create and maintain network architecture diagrams.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a polygraph.
• A bachelor's degree in a related field, or equivalent experience in place of a degree.
• At least 5 years of technical experience with network and transport technologies, tools, and methods.
• At least 5 years working with large-scale enterprise or global networks in a demanding, varied environment.
• The ability to work independently with little direction or guidance.
• Advanced experience in network design, engineering, and implementation, including preparing rough order of magnitude equipment lists and costs.
• The ability to estimate the labor needed to plan, engineer, procure, and install complex enterprise transport solutions.
• An understanding of DISA and IC standards and processes.
• Strong writing and communication skills, including analytical documents and oral presentations to senior and executive management.
• An understanding of requirements engineering across several hardware and software development life cycles in a team setting.
• Knowledge of product management concepts and how enterprise network products are positioned and implemented.
• Proficiency in the Microsoft Office suite: Visio, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Experience with complex telecommunications applications across all phases of network design, implementation, and analysis.

Conditions

Full-time, regular position with local travel of up to 10%.

Minimum clearance required to start: TS/SCI.

The proposed salary range is $75,200-$158,100.

Final salary depends on factors including geographic location, federal government contract labor categories and wage rates, relevant prior experience, specific skills and competencies, education, and certifications.

Benefits

• Comprehensive benefits, including healthcare, wellness, financial, retirement, family support, continuing education, and time off.
• Flexible time off that lets you take the time you need.
• Access to learning and development resources.
• Competitive compensation.