Network Engineer IV

Invictus International Consulting • Colorado Springs, CO

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About The Position

The Network Engineer IV position involves developing system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation. The role requires the development of risk management and mitigation strategies while maintaining compliance with QA standards and ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded. The engineer will review mission-related change requirements, such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs), determining impacts on transport activities across the enterprise and providing technical solutions and cost impacts. The focus will be on requirements analysis, development, and implementation, as well as engineering and implementing solutions for projects based on customer CRQs. The engineer will serve as the technical representative for assigned projects, provide recommendations on newly submitted action items, and coordinate issues with the appropriate owners/organizations. Responsibilities also include eliciting requirements through various methods, writing requirement specifications, managing requirements traceability, supporting network traffic analysis, and evaluating new/emerging network technologies.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of experience can be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNP (or equivalent) certifications
• Experience working in a DoD or Intelligence Community Environment desired
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Responsibilities

• Develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation
• Develop risk management and mitigation strategy
• Maintain compliance with QA standards and ensure service performance indicators are met or exceeded
• Review mission-related change requirements such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs)
• Determine impacts on transport activities across the enterprise while providing technical solutions and cost impacts
• Engage in complex telecommunications applications involving all phases of telecommunications network design, implementation, and analysis
• Focus on requirements analysis, development, and implementation
• Engineer and implement solutions for projects based on customer CRQs
• Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects
• Provide recommendations on newly submitted action 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 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
• Follow all customer network security processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with all government policies
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams

What This Job Offers

• Industry: Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 101-250 employees