Requires US Citizenship
Employment Term and Type: Regular, Full Time
Required Security Clearance: Secret Clearable to TS/SCI
Required Education: High School Diploma or Equivalent Salary Range: $145,000 to $151,715 Job Title: Network Engineer
Job Description: Provide network engineering support by installing, configuring, testing, and deploying network solutions.
Primary Duties and Responsibilities - Operate and maintain PMW-160 Automated Digital Network System (ADNS)
- Design, develop, test, install, and maintain multiple USNTANs
- Apply and mitigate DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs)
- Maintain the San Diego commercial satellite communications test facility ("Test Access Point Name (APN)") in a high state of readiness to support over-the-air Inmarsat communications tests from Boeing and other primary airframe integrators
- Maintain technical currency with the design baseline for the AN/USQ-144K(v)1 ADNS Increment III shore network, particularly as it affects satellite communications for supported aircraft
- Collaborate with other NAVAIR-sponsored project engineers at NIWC-PAC, particularly on those matters that affect the design, operation, and modernization of critical network infrastructure shared by multiple manned and unmanned air platforms
- Participate in technical reviews and provide analysis of proposed changes to the USNTANs hardware and software baselines
- Provide Technical Assistance to Aircraft Squadron Personnel and Boeing Factory Representatives
Required Qualifications - Five years of hands-on experience with installing, configuring, and deploying network solutions
- Five years of experience providing engineering support in a professional setting
- One year of experience applying and mitigating DISA STIGs
- Demonstrate a comprehensive understanding of networking protocols, including the TCP/IP stack (verified during interview)
- DOD 8570 IAT II compliant certification
- Cisco CCNA certification or higher
- Exhibit professional qualities:
- Perform in a customer-facing role and effectively communicate in verbal and written formats
- Work unsupervised, independently or as part of a team
- Ability to work effectively with sponsors, customers, subordinates, users
- Multi-task among numerous projects
Desired Qualifications - Bachelor's Degree in IT-related discipline
- Experience working with Airborne or Navy Tactical Networks (ADNS, UCLASS, MQ-25A, STACC)
- Experience with designing or deploying multicast networks
- Experience with deploying Virtual Route Forwarding (VRF's)
- Experience with delivering systems engineering artifacts to include L2/L3 Network Diagrams, L1 Cabling Diagrams, Network Installation Guides, and Analysis of Alternatives (AoA's)
- Experience with configuring virtual network hypervisors such as ProxMox, VMware, GNS3, or EVE-NG
- Familiarity network scripting automation to include TCL and Python
- Familiarity with automated provisioning, configuration and management using Ansible
- Familiarity with the YANG data model and experience with the NETCONF and RESTCONF network management protocol
Education Requirements: - High School Diploma or equivalent
Security Clearance Requirements: - Secret upgradable to TS/SCI
Physical Requirements: - Requires Sitting (66%), Standing (15%), Walking (15%), Near Acuity (100%), Color Determination (100%), Speaking (100%), Listening (100%), Sight (100%), Use of fingers and hands (100%), Travel
This position description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all responsibilities, skills, efforts or working conditions associated with this job. This and all positions are eligible for organization-wide transfer. Management reserves the right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time.
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