Staff Cyber Network Engineer

Description

Staff-level cyber network role on the Mission Systems team, based in Chantilly, VA.

You will work alongside engineers, system administrators and operators on mission-critical networks.

The company has approximately 90,000 employees across all 50 states and more than 27 countries.

Responsibilities

• Give onsite engineering and administrative support to developers and testers, sometimes departing from standard industry practice to meet mission needs while keeping security standards.
• Monitor and maintain mission-critical network infrastructure and provide Tier-2 and Tier-3 support.
• Collect data for analysis and carry out network upgrades.
• Build, roll out and support solutions for mission-critical and mission-essential infrastructure.
• Review current systems and networks and propose proactive changes that create efficiencies.
• Produce accurate network diagrams, Visio diagrams, topology records and standard operating procedures to support troubleshooting, change management and team collaboration.
• Work with mission system developers to design and deploy solutions for customer needs.
• Maintain, evaluate, test and apply STIG configurations to network devices.
• Respond to security findings and break fix events across the infrastructure.

Requirements

• US citizen holding an active TS clearance with SCI eligibility; ability to obtain a Poly is required for consideration.
• Experience: 12 years with a bachelor's degree, 10 years with a master's, 8 years with a PhD, or 16 years without a degree.
• IAT-2 certification, such as CompTIA Security+.
• Experience troubleshooting technical issues using the OSI model.
• Hands-on experience making ethernet cables, pulling fiber and racking equipment.
• Basic understanding of Cisco CLI commands.
• Experience with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and the Authority to Operate (ATO) process.
• Experience working in an integrated team with systems, software and specialty engineers to develop solutions.
• Communicate and collaborate with multiple teams at every technical level, and lead the way on creative solutions to complex problems.
• 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: prior experience troubleshooting network procedures and best practices, including network challenges from systems integration such as COTS integration, 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: prior contribution to building ATO packages.

Conditions

Clearance must be in place before start.

Travel is about 10% of the time.

Relocation assistance may be available.

Base salary range is $161,000.00 to $241,400.00, a general guideline set by scope, the candidate's experience, education, skills and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, overtime, shift differential and a discretionary bonus may apply in addition to base pay.

The application period is estimated at 20 days from the posting date and may be shortened or extended.

Benefits

• Health plan, savings plan, paid time off, life and disability insurance, and company paid holidays.
• Education assistance and training and development.
• 9/80 work schedule where available.
• Annual bonus tied to individual contribution and company results.
• Long Term Incentives may be available for Vice President and Director positions.