Network System Engineer

Description

The company provides IT services and solutions to the Federal Government, supplying people, skills, clearance levels and technologies to organizations that want better performance and lasting modern change.

The company has supported more than 30 Federal Agencies and several commercial customers across the US, with 15+ years of delivery.

Its services cover IT talent, data delivery and analytics, cyber security, cloud migration, applications and infrastructure, software development, and finance and accounting.

This full-time, on-site role supports a government contract for a client in Scottsdale, AZ, and requires an active Secret clearance.

The company participates in the Virginia Values Veterans (V3) program and supports the Military Medics and Corpsmen (MMAC) initiative, hiring veterans, transitioning service members, military spouses and dependents.

Responsibilities

• Assess network needs, then design, document, build and test data communication networks that support satellite ground systems.
• Draft network plans and designs, install components, and configure services to match program requirements.
• Review network layouts, traffic and capacity so you can monitor, maintain and troubleshoot during deployments.
• Between deployments, run, maintain and fix networks at different classification levels, including security settings, diagnostics, corrective actions and clear change records.
• Mount devices in equipment racks and user workspaces.
• Spend most of your time in an office, with some work in a raised-floor computing area.

Requirements

• Hold an active Secret security clearance.
• Have a bachelor's degree in engineering or a related science or mathematics field plus 5+ years of relevant experience, or a master's degree plus 3+ years.
• Be a U.S. citizen.
• Travel up to 50%, including surges during site equipment deployments, and hold a U.S. passport, since some trips go outside the U.S.
• Preferred: experience with enterprise network design and topology.
• Preferred: experience designing and implementing high-speed networks.
• Preferred: Juniper JNCIA-Junos (JNCIP preferred) or Cisco CCNA (CCNP preferred).
• Preferred: hands-on work with Juniper SRX-series firewalls.
• Preferred: experience maintaining Linux IDM and Windows Servers (DNS, account management), Juniper firewalls, Arista switches and NAS/SAN storage.
• Preferred: knowledge of multicast and routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• Preferred: skill in vulnerability scanning, system hardening and remediation.
• Preferred: strong technical writing for network, system and operations documentation.
• Preferred: public cloud networking and services, including AWS.
• Preferred: experience with VMware vSphere and virtual machines.
• Preferred: experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• Preferred: 6 years integrating and configuring switches, routers, firewalls and gateways in IPv4 (TCP/UDP) data communication systems.
• Preferred: within the past 5 years, proven experience in at least two of these: 1 year as a systems manager or operator in Microsoft or Linux environments (Windows Server 2012 or newer, Windows 7 or newer clients, Linux); 1 year of LAN administration, operation and architecture covering 30+ client systems; managing mixed Windows and Linux environments; virtualizing hardware platforms, operating systems, storage or network resources.
• Preferred: a collaborative team player and clear communicator who likes technical leadership, continuous learning and improving how work gets done.

Conditions

Full-time position, on-site, with a salary range of $85,000 to $100,000 USD.

The pay range is a general guideline, not a guaranteed salary, and the final offer depends on factors such as responsibilities, education, experience, skills, internal equity, location, market data, any applicable bargaining agreement, or other law.

Reference code: GH 1081.

The company is a Federal subcontractor and follows federal laws against employment discrimination, including Title VII and the ADA, and it welcomes applicants regardless of protected status.

Accommodation requests during the application process can be sent to the Human Resources Department at the company's site or 703-936-0880.

Benefits

• Benefit details are available from the company on request.