Network Engineer-TS/SCI Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Only!
Herndon, United StatesRemoteFull-time
AI Summary
Network Engineer responsible for strategic network standards, TCP/IP transport design, routing protocols, virtual networking, and INFOSEC/COMSEC requirements. Provides technical guidance, optimizes network performance, and oversees network systems configuration in a multi-vendor environment.
About this role
Actively seeking Network Engineers!!
Bachelor's or Master’s Degree are preferred in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills may include the following…
- Establishing overall strategic network standards and priorities.
- Providing technical guidance and direction for TCP/IP transport network design and engineering, network routing protocols, advanced virtual networking technologies.
- Analyzing the optimization of network system performance.
- Overseeing the strategic interface of network systems configuration.
- Assessing network engineering technologies, computing systems hardware and software protocols.
- Providing high-level technical advice and guidance to managers and technical resources on network technologies to meet current and future organizational needs.
- Identifying INFOSEC and COMSEC security requirements for the network.
- Cisco IOS, including switching, routing, segment routing and other technologies
- Radio Frequency (RF) and spectrum engineering
- Optical networking technology and engineering
- Satellite communications engineering
Preferred:
- Experience with a variety of network technologies and solution architectures
- Broad understanding of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the networking field.
- Knowledge of state-of-the-art systems engineering principles and network design concepts
- In depth working knowledge of MPLS, TCP/IP, VPN, and IP telephony
- Full working knowledge of the OSI model, routing protocols and their application to router configurations
- Experience in multi-vendor network security environment
- Experience with routing design, techniques, and protocols such as BGP
- In-depth understanding of peering, QoS and traffic engineering
- Cloud experience (AWS (VPC, transit gateway, private link, ELB, etc), Azure (connectivity services – Vnet, virtual WAN, VPN gateway, application protection, application delivery and network monitoring, etc), etc.)
- Security best practices for firewalls and perimeter security measures including VPN technologies
- Continuous integration, test automation and/or SecDevOps on iterative development projects
- Agile Development methodologies
- Cisco Certifications: CCNA or CCNP
Skills
Agile DevelopmentAWS ELBAWS Private LinkAWS Transit GatewayAWS VPCAzure Virtual WANAzure VNetAzure VPN GatewayBGPCCNACCNPCisco IOSContinuous IntegrationFirewallsIP TelephonyMPLSOptical NetworkingOSI ModelPeeringPerimeter SecurityQoSRadio Frequency (RF)RoutingSatellite CommunicationsSecDevOpsSegment RoutingSpectrum EngineeringSwitchingTCP/IPTest AutomationTraffic EngineeringVPN
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