Network Engineer III

Cherokee Federal•Springfield, VA

21h•$140,000 - $145,566

About The Position

The Network Engineer III will focus on Requirements Analysis, Development, and Implementation. This role involves engineering and implementing solutions for projects based on customer Change Requests, serving as the technical representative for assigned projects, and providing recommendations on newly submitted action items. The position requires coordinating issues with appropriate owners/organizations and providing concurrence on decisions or recommendations. Responsibilities also include eliciting requirements through various methods, writing requirement specifications, decomposing high-level requirements, representing requirements using models, performing analysis and verification, managing requirements traceability, and identifying/resolving requirement errors. The role supports network traffic analysis, bandwidth optimization, and evaluating new network technologies to enhance capacity, performance, and reliability. It also involves evaluating and recommending changes or upgrades for performance, standardization, and best practices, while adhering to customer network security processes, procedures, and government policies. The engineer will develop and maintain network architecture diagrams and perform other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

Current TS/SCI security clearance with the willingness and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence polygraph
Minimum of ten (10) years related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques
Minimum of five (5) years experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high paced diverse environment
Ability to work independently with little direction and guidance
Experience with network design, engineering, and implementation (Advanced Level)
Experience in creation of network related Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) equipment lists and costing
Ability to estimate labor needed to complete planning, engineering, procurement, and installation of complex Enterprise Transport solutions
Understanding of DISA and IC standards and processes
Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to develop analytical documents and present oral presentations to senior/executive management
Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities
Understanding of how to practice requirements engineering according to several hardware/software development lifecycles in a team environment.
Knowledge of product management concepts and how Enterprise network products are positioned and implemented
Proficient is MS Office suite – Visio, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Project
Ability to work weekends and evening hours as needed
Understanding and experience with the DoD Architecture Framework and other key DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions
Experience with CISCO and Juniper: switches, routers, as well as Cryptographic devices, IPSEC.
Experience with Network analysis tools (CISCO Network Analysis Modules, Solar Winds Network Management, OPNET NetOne, HP Network Node Manager, etc.)
Experience with CISCO and Juniper firewall/VPN devices
Experience with supporting IP services to connect to NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS (IPv4, VPN, IPSEC, GRE, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc)
Experience with BGP, OSPF, and MPLS.
Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal
US Citizen AND an active TS/Sensitive Compartmental Information (SCI) clearance.

Nice To Haves

Experience with one of the following cloud environments a plus; AWS, AZURE

Responsibilities

Focus will be on Requirements Analysis, Development and Implementation
Engineer and implement solutions for Projects based on customer Change Requests
Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects.
Provide recommendations on newly submitted actions items.
Coordinate issues with the appropriate owners/organizations.
Provide concurrence on decisions or recommendations by assigned suspense.
Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis and test/workflow analysis.
Write requirement specs according to standard templates.
Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.
Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams).
Perform requirement analysis and verification, ensuring requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and they conform to standards.
Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the review process.
Identify requirement errors and defects, and write response statements to appropriate owners/organizations.
Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives.
Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance capacity, performance and reliability of the network.
Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization and industry best practices
Follows all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensures compliance with all Government policies.
Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.
Performs other job-related duties as assigned