Junior Network Engineer
About The Position
TEKsystems is seeking a Junior Network Engineer to support classified Department of War (DoW) network environments in a Secret/Top Secret operational setting. This role is ideal for an early-career engineer with a strong foundation in networking who is ready to work in secure, mission-critical environments under the mentorship of senior engineers. The Junior Network Engineer will assist in the operation, maintenance, and troubleshooting of classified and un-classified network infrastructure while adhering to strict security, compliance, DoW, and change-management requirements.
Requirements
- Strong foundation in networking
- Ability to work in secure, mission-critical environments
- Adherence to strict security, compliance, DoW, and change-management requirements
- Experience with installation, configuration, and maintenance of network infrastructure (routers, switches, firewalls, network security devices)
- Experience with day-to-day network operations in a Secret/TS environment
- Experience monitoring network performance and availability
- Experience with basic network troubleshooting across LAN/WAN, VLANs, routing, and switching
- Experience supporting network upgrades, hardware refreshes, and STIGs/patching activities, including IOS updates
- Experience maintaining accurate network documentation, diagrams, and configuration baselines
- Experience configuring and managing network hardware and firewalls
- Knowledge of DoD, IC, and organizational security policies and procedures
- Experience participating in change management, incident response, and outage resolution activities
- Ability to investigate network issues and outages
- Ability to provide technical help to engineers, IA staff and end users
- Willingness to support after-hours or on-call operations as required
Responsibilities
- Support the installation, configuration, and maintenance of unclassified and classified network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, and network security devices
- Assist with day-to-day network operations in a Secret/TS environment
- Monitor network performance and availability; identify, troubleshoot, screen network performance, and escalate issues
- Perform basic network troubleshooting across LAN/WAN, VLANs, routing, and switching
- Support network upgrades, hardware refreshes, and STIGs/patching activities, including IOS updates
- Maintain accurate network documentation, diagrams, and configuration baselines, and design and implement network security measures
- Configure and manage network hardware and firewalls
- Follow DoD, IC, and organizational security policies and procedures
- Participate in change management, incident response, and outage resolution activities
- Investigate network issues and outages, and work with SME with Network enhancement
- Provide technical help to engineers, IA staff and end users
- Support after-hours or on-call operations as required
Benefits
- Medical
- dental
- vision
- Critical Illness
- Accident
- Hospital
- 401(k) Retirement Plan
- Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions
- Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents)
- Short and long-term disability
- Health Spending Account (HSA)
- Transportation benefits
- Employee Assistance Program
- Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave)
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
