Principal Network Engineer / Senior Principal Network Engineer

Description

The team is based in Chantilly, VA and works on a mission-critical network infrastructure for mission systems. The role is offered at Principal or Senior Principal level, and the company describes its work as spanning land, sea, air, space and cyberspace.

Relocation assistance may be available. Travel is 10% of the time. A SCI clearance is required to start.

Responsibilities

• Provide onsite engineering and administrative support to a team of developers and testers, sometimes departing from industry standard procedures to meet mission needs while keeping system security standards intact.
• Develop, implement and support solutions for systems that underpin mission critical and mission essential infrastructure.
• Monitor, maintain and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support for the network, collecting data for analysis and carrying out network upgrades.
• Review existing systems and networks and propose proactive changes that improve efficiency.
• Build and keep current clear network diagrams and topology documentation that support troubleshooting, change management and collaboration across teams.
• Work with mission system developers to design and deploy solutions that meet customer mission needs.
• Maintain, evaluate, test and apply STIG configurations to network devices.
• Respond to security findings and Break Fix events across the infrastructure.
• Write and maintain network documentation, including Standard Operating Procedures and Visio diagrams.

Requirements

• Be a US citizen holding an active TS clearance with SCI eligibility. Ability to obtain a Poly is required to be considered.
• Hold a degree plus experience: 5 years with a Bachelor's degree, 3 years with a Master's, 1 year with a PhD, or 9 years of experience without a degree.
• Hold an IAT-2 certification, such as CompTIA Security+.
• Have experience troubleshooting technical issues using the OSI model.
• Have experience making ethernet cables, pulling fiber and racking equipment.
• Have a firm grasp of Cisco CLI commands.
• Have a firm grasp of Juniper JunOS commands and/or firewall concepts.
• Have experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the Authority to Operate (ATO) process.
• Have experience working in an integrated team with systems, software and specialty engineers to develop solutions.
• Ability to lead the way in creating and maintaining creative solutions to complex problems.
• Thrive in a fast-paced, quick-response environment with high expectations, diverse assignments and the need to communicate and collaborate with teams at all technical levels.
• Senior Principal level: be a US citizen holding an active TS clearance with SCI eligibility, with the ability to obtain a Poly required to be considered. Hold a degree plus experience: 8 years with a Bachelor's degree, 6 years with a Master's, 4 years with a PhD, or 12 years of experience without a degree. Hold an IAT-2 certification, such as CompTIA Security+, and meet the same troubleshooting, cabling, Cisco, Juniper, RMF/ATO and integrated team requirements listed above.
• Preferred: active TS/SCI clearance with a current Poly.
• Preferred: understanding of dynamic routing protocols.
• Preferred: firm understanding of Juniper JunOS commands and/or firewall concepts.
• Preferred: experience troubleshooting network procedures and best practices, including network challenges from systems integration (COTS integration included) and capacity analysis.
• Preferred: experience with Linux and Windows operating systems.
• Preferred: experience with virtualization technologies such as Red Hat KVM, VMware, libvirt/virsh, Docker and Kubernetes.
• Preferred: experience contributing to ATO packages.
• Preferred: experience working in Agile and O&M environments.

Conditions

Pay ranges: Principal level $103,600.00 to $155,400.00; Senior Principal level $129,300.00 to $193,900.00. Base salary is a general guideline and depends on scope and responsibilities, experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Application window is estimated at 20 days from the posting date and may be shortened or extended based on business needs and candidate availability.

The company provides equal opportunity and values diversity in its hiring.

Benefits

• Depending on the role, eligibility may include overtime, shift differential and a discretionary annual bonus based on individual and company results.
• Vice President and Director roles may be eligible for Long Term Incentives.
• Benefits include health insurance, life and disability insurance, a savings plan, company paid holidays and paid time off for vacation and personal business.
• Additional benefits include education assistance, training and development, and a 9/80 work schedule where available.