Network Engineer 3

Wyetech • Fort Meade, MD

8d • $73 - $115

About The Position

At Wyetech, you’ll be at the center of an award-winning corporate culture, breaking technological barriers and solving real-world problems for our federal government customers. We are committed to hiring the best of the best, and in return, we offer a world-class, truly unique employee experience that is rare within our industry. Provides 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. Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position appropriate security clearance is required. (e.g. Active TS/SCI security clearance with agency appropriate polygraph).

Requirements

• TS/SCI with agency appropriate polygraph
• Twelve (12) years’ experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• 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.
• Certifications: An IAT level III baseline certification as defined by DoD 8570.01-M is required.
• Minimum of 3 years as a Network Engineer (within the last 3 years).
• Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls.
• Proficient with Linux and Windows.
• CCNA or CCNP certification.
• Security+ certification.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with patching and upgrading Linux servers and networking resources.
• Ansible/Salt scripts
• AWS/VMs
• Linux and/or Windows system administration experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• 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 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 Shapping Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec) IP Encryption and 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 down time.
• 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 to 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.

Benefits

• Wyetech believes in generously supporting employees as they prepare for retirement. The company automatically contributes 20% of each employee's gross compensation to a Simplified Employee Pension (SEP) IRA, with no requirement for employee matching. All contributions are fully vested from day one, ensuring immediate ownership of retirement funds.
• Wyetech provides a generous PTO plan of up to 200 hours annually, aligned with applicable state leave regulations. Employees have the flexibility to adjust their PTO allocation at the start of each calendar year, ensuring it meets their evolving needs.
• Full-time employees have the option to participate in a variety of voluntary benefit plans including: A Choice of Medical Plan Options, some with Health Savings Account (HSA) Vision and Dental Life and AD&D Benefits Short and Long-Term Disability Hospital Indemnity, Accident, and Critical Illness Insurances Optional Identity Theft and Legal Protection Services
• Employee Referral Bonus Eligibility up to $10,000
• Mobility Among Wyetech-supported Contracts
• Various contract and work locations throughout Maryland, Virginia, Colorado, Texas, Utah, Alaska, Hawaii and OCONUS
• Various team-building events throughout the year such as: monthly lunches, summer company picnic, and an annual holiday party.
• Employees receive two complementary branded clothing orders annually.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees