Job DescriptionSALARY RANGE $157,000 - $214,000/year.
DUTIES As a successful candidate for the Network Engineer III role you will provide assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks; Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents; Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment; Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.
Required Skills
SKILLS- Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
- Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems
- Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits a report of suspected physical incident immediately
- Configure and maintain the organization's network diagrams and accreditations
- Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations
- Design, integrate, test, and deploy solutions to established network issues
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
- Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories, and tasking organizations, and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
- Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping, Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
- Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize downtime
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies
- Applies Network Acceleration techniques such as Riverbed
- Conducts inventories as directed (e.g., semiannually/annually)
- Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately
- Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance of all network equipment
- Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats
- Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
- Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design
- Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
- Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
- Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment, and network simulators
- Assists System engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements
QUALIFICATIONS Twelve (12) years' experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. A bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.
Additional Requirements:- Minimum of 3 years as a Network Engineer within the last 3 years
- Experience with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls
- Proficient with Linux and or Windows system administration experience is a plus
CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES A CCNA or CCNP certification is required, as well as a Security+ certification.
Desired Skills (Optional)
- Experience patching and upgrading Linux servers and networking resources
- Ansible/Salt scripts
- AWS/VMs
