Type of Requisition:Regular
Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:Top Secret SCI + Polygraph
Public Trust/Other Required:None
Job Family:IT Infrastructure and Operations
Job Qualifications:Skills:Cisco Routers Switches, Enterprise Network, Routing and Switching
Certifications:None
Experience:8 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:Yes
Job Description:ENTERPRISE NETWORK ENGINEER
We are seeking an experienced
Enterprise Network Engineer who understands how complete networks operate-not simply how to configure individual devices.
You will engineer, operate, troubleshoot, and maintain three distinct enterprise network environments, each with unique security boundaries, configurations, and operational requirements. Using technologies such as
Juniper switches, Palo Alto firewalls, and F5 load balancers, you will help ensure secure, reliable, and high-performing connectivity across a complex enterprise.
The ideal candidate understands why configurations work, anticipates the impact of changes, and can troubleshoot the entire network path.
Responsibilities- Engineer, configure, operate, and improve infrastructure across three separate enterprise network environments.
- Design, implement, and troubleshoot routing and switching configurations.
- Maintain Palo Alto firewall configurations, security rules, network segmentation, and controlled communications between authorized systems.
- Configure and support F5 load-balancing services for application availability, traffic distribution, and performance.
- Trace network paths, analyze traffic flows and routing decisions, and resolve end-to-end connectivity issues.
- Evaluate how routing, switching, firewalls, load balancers, security controls, and connected infrastructure interact.
- Maintain configurations appropriate to each environment's architecture, security boundary, and operational requirements.
- Assess the potential impact of proposed changes before implementation.
- Identify recurring issues and recommend improvements to reliability, performance, security, and operational efficiency.
- Collaborate with systems, security, virtualization, cloud, application, and other engineering teams.
What Success Looks LikeYou will understand how each network environment is designed and how its components work together. When connectivity fails, you can trace the traffic, identify where communication is interrupted, and determine whether the cause involves routing, switching, firewall policy, load balancing, or another infrastructure dependency.
You can explain why configurations exist, make changes with appropriate consideration for security and operational impact, and prevent unintended consequences. Most importantly, you will become a trusted engineer responsible for the infrastructure that keeps the enterprise connected.
WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED
Bring your technology expertise and drive for innovation to GDIT. The Enterprise Network Engineer must have:
• Education: Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science
• Experience: 8+ years of related experience
• Technical skills:
- Experience engineering, administering, or supporting enterprise network environments.
- Strong knowledge of enterprise routing, switching, and network troubleshooting.
- Hands-on experience with Juniper network switches.
- Experience configuring and troubleshooting Palo Alto firewalls.
- Experience supporting and maintaining F5 load balancers.
- Knowledge of VLANs, IP addressing, subnetting, routing protocols, segmentation, TCP/IP, and network traffic flows.
- Ability to troubleshoot connectivity across the complete network path and identify configuration-related issues.
- Understanding of security boundaries and the effect of network policies on enterprise communications.
- Ability to independently analyze complex problems, determine root causes, develop solutions, and safely implement changes.
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with Cisco routing and switching.
- Experience supporting isolated or segmented enterprise networks.
- Advanced Juniper routing and switching knowledge.
- Palo Alto security policy administration and troubleshooting.
- Experience with F5 BIG-IP, LTM, GTM/DNS, or related application-delivery technologies.
- Experience with packet capture, protocol analysis, network monitoring, and traffic-analysis tools.
- Network automation or configuration-management experience.
- PowerShell, Python, or similar scripting skills.
- Microsoft Azure or AWS networking experience.
- Experience supporting large-scale, distributed, or mission-critical networks.
• Security clearance level: TS/SCI w/Poly
• US citizenship required
• Certification: Must be 8570 compliant with a Security + certification
• Location: Annapolis Junction, MD
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The likely salary range for this position is $131,750 - $178,250. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.
Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40
Travel Required:
Less than 10%
Telecommuting Options:
Onsite
Work Location:
USA MD Annapolis Junction
Additional Work Locations:
Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.
Our Identity Verification Process:
As part of the hiring process, we will ask you to complete an identity verification process that leverages advanced biometrics and artificial intelligence to ensure authenticity and protect against identity fraud. You are expected to be on camera during virtual interviews. We reserve the right to take your picture to verify your identity and prevent fraud. By proceeding, you authorize the collection, processing, and use of your biometric data for identity verification and security purposes. 
