Network Engineer - TS/SCI w/Polygraph

Description

The company is a worldwide technology and mission services provider for federal, defense and intelligence customers, with 26,000 employees in more than 50 countries, working in AI, cloud, cyber and software development.

You will oversee the technical side of a project's network solution and work largely on your own, with little day-to-day supervision.

Responsibilities

• Interpret project requirements and map them to the technical parts of the solution.
• Design IT infrastructure for internal and external customers, covering capacity planning, system configuration and tuning, monitoring, backups, and hardware and software installation.
• Define, maintain and upgrade the network's overall security posture, auditing events and overall health and making changes to strengthen it.
• Plan and assign network installation and engineering tasks, and configure and maintain communications systems.
• Work with LAN and WAN equipment, including firewalls, servers, workstations, routers, switches, hubs, storage devices, A/V equipment and equipment 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.
• Lay out networks and configure systems for user environments.
• You may provide technical support and troubleshooting to users at Tier I, II and III.

Requirements

• Bachelor's or technology degree in engineering or a related specialized field, or equivalent experience of 9 years in related work.
• 5+ years of network engineering experience.
• 3+ years configuring and maintaining Cisco ASA or next generation firewalls.
• 4+ years configuring, designing, maintaining and troubleshooting LAN and WAN devices, with a solid grasp of routing concepts including EIGRP, OSPF, BGP and IP MPLS.
• Experience letting voice and video traffic through port-based firewalls and NGFWs.
• Experience deploying Cisco, Palo Alto or Juniper firewall manager servers.
• Experience engineering and deploying multi-firewall solutions.
• 5+ years designing, engineering and deploying controlled interfaces.
• Experience designing, engineering and deploying plans for transitioning between firewall vendors.
• Experience deploying firewalls in a multicast network environment.
• Experience with IPSec site-to-site VPNs using PKI (CA).
• Experience with remote access VPNs.
• Basic understanding of QoS concepts.
• Experience with network monitoring technologies.
• Ability to turn ambiguous requirements or problems into technical solutions.
• Ability to work with systems administrators, storage administrators and application developers on complex problems.
• Skill in researching complex problems and resolving issues.
• Strong organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team-building skills.
• Proven problem-solving in complex environments.
• Desired: experience configuring, designing and troubleshooting QoS in LAN or WAN devices.
• Desired: Juniper, Palo Alto or Cisco next generation firewall certifications and hands-on experience.
• Desired: experience designing, engineering and deploying multi-factor authentication.
• Desired: experience designing, engineering and deploying zero-trust solutions.

Conditions

Onsite at a customer site in the Herndon area, USA.

Full-time, 40 scheduled hours per week. No travel required.

US citizenship required.

You must currently hold an active TS/SCI clearance with polygraph, and must be able to obtain it.

No Public Trust or other clearance is required.

The likely salary range is $102,000 to $138,000. This is not a guarantee. Pay depends on experience, geographic location and possibly contract terms, and may fall outside this range.

Be available to support IT Operations needs when requested.

During hiring you will complete an identity verification process using biometrics and AI, and you must be on camera for virtual interviews. The company may photograph you to verify identity, and by proceeding you authorize use of your biometric data for verification and security.

Equal opportunity employer that welcomes individuals with disabilities and protected veterans.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages, with medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, plus dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) with company match, allowing pre- and post-tax contributions up to IRS annual limits.
• Full flex work weeks where possible.
• Paid vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave.
• Short and long-term disability, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness, and business travel and accident insurance, provided or available.
• Paid education and certifications for professional growth.
• An internal mobility team to help you manage your career.
• Access to cutting-edge technology to learn from.