Network Engineer - TS/SCI w/ Poly

Description

The company is a global technology and professional services firm serving U.S. government, defense and intelligence agencies, with about 26,000 staff across more than 50 countries.

This is a full-time, onsite Network Engineer role in McLean, Virginia, focused on designing technical solutions for complex problems.

The position requires an active Top Secret SCI clearance with a polygraph, and the candidate must currently hold it.

Job family: IT Infrastructure and Operations.

Responsibilities

• Design technical solutions for complex problems and oversee their technical delivery, including interpreting requirements and assigning them to technical components.
• Define the processes needed to implement requirements.
• Make sure solutions follow industry best practices, build in security and quality, and keep total cost of ownership low.
• Define internal and external customers' IT infrastructure needs and design solutions covering capacity planning, system configuration and tuning, monitoring, backups, and hardware and software installation.
• Define, maintain and upgrade the network security posture, run security audits of events and network health, and make changes to strengthen it.
• Plan and assign network installation and engineering work, and configure and maintain communications systems across LAN and WAN equipment such as firewalls, servers, workstations, routers, switches, hubs, storage, A/V equipment and racks.
• Write and edit build-to and as-built documents, plus implementation and test plans for physical and logical IT installs.
• Plan system work beyond the network, including the applications and systems that depend on it.
• Provide expert analysis of voice, video and data networks, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting and upgrading operating systems and protocol suites.
• Plan network layouts and configure systems for user environments.
• Provide technical support and troubleshooting to users at Tiers I, II and III when needed.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering or a related specialized field, or equivalent with 14 years of job-related experience.
• 10+ years of related network engineering experience.
• 8+ years configuring and maintaining Cisco ASA or next-generation firewalls.
• 7+ years configuring, designing, maintaining and troubleshooting LAN and WAN devices, with a solid understanding of routing concepts including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and IP MPLS.
• 10+ years designing, engineering and deploying controlled interfaces.
• More than 10 deployments of Cisco, Palo Alto or Juniper firewall manager servers.
• Experience letting voice and video traffic through port-based firewalls and NGFWs.
• Experience engineering and deploying multi-firewall solutions.
• Experience designing, engineering and deploying firewall vendor transition plans.
• Experience deploying firewalls in multicast network environments.
• Experience with IPsec site-to-site VPNs using PKI (CA).
• Experience with remote access VPNs.
• Basic understanding of QoS concepts.
• Experience with network monitoring tools.
• Ability to turn unclear requirements or problems into technical solutions.
• Ability to work with systems administrators, storage administrators and application developers to solve complex problems.
• Skill in researching complex problems and resolving issues.
• Ability to mentor junior network engineers.
• Strong organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Proven problem-solving ability in complex environments.
• Must work independently with little supervision and be flexible to support IT operations as needed.
• U.S. citizenship required.

Conditions

Full-time, 40 scheduled hours per week, onsite in McLean, Virginia, with no travel required.

Clearance: an active Top Secret SCI with polygraph is required.

Salary is likely to fall between $153,000 and $207,000, based on experience, location and possible contract terms, and may fall outside that range.

As part of hiring, you will complete an identity verification process using biometrics and AI, and you must be on camera for virtual interviews.

The company is an equal opportunity employer that welcomes individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• 401(k) with company match.
• Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• Short- and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, provided or available.
• Paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid education and certifications.
• Internal mobility support for managing your career.
• Hands-on work with current technology.