Network Engineer Senior

SAIC•Beltsville, MD

4h•Onsite

About The Position

This is a Senior/SME position working for the Relay Encryption Operations team within Communication Security, providing network engineering expertise in support of the Vanguard 2025 program. The well-qualified candidate will possess and apply comprehensive knowledge regarding the engineering and implementation of network solutions. The candidate must be capable of planning and leading the testing, implementation, and maintenance of networking technologies and devices. The candidate must be capable of evaluating performance results, performing risk assessments, and recommending changes affecting network configuration/implementation. The position directly supports DoS on-site to provide network engineering services.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in a computer science/computer engineering related discipline and 10+ years IT security/network engineering support experience (Engineering, Tier III, network infrastructure implementation and maintenance); may accept additional experience in lieu of degree.
Solid understanding and analysis of network flows and OSI model
Experience designing and implementing large enterprise/global network solutions
Expert experience in BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, GRE, DMVPN, IPSEC, MACSEC, Multicast, Unicast
Expert experience with network platforms: routers, switches, VPN concentrators, network management (ISR/ASR/Nexus) and protocols (e.g., TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, VLANs).
Expert knowledge of TCP/IP networking
Experience working directly with Government customer
Technical writing and documentation/diagram skills (MS Visio/MS Word/MS Excel)
US Citizenship.
Active secret clearance with the ability to obtain a top secret clearance.

Nice To Haves

Cisco Certified Network Professional – CCNP, CCIE is desirable
Experience with Cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure/Amazon Web Services desirable
Familiar with network monitoring tools (NeuralStar, GemOne, Chimera, VINE, HPNA, Splunk, WireShark)
Ability to design, deploy, and maintain virtualized network environments using VMware technologies and be Skilled in integrating VMware virtual networks with physical network infrastructure
Proficient in configuring and managing VMware Distributed Switches (vDS) and virtual network interfaces
Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or PowerShell to automate network tasks and workflows

Responsibilities

Works directly with the DoS customer to build, design, test and deploy enterprise network solutions utilizing network routers and switches.
Develop and deploy network engineering solutions in compliance with Enterprise Architecture standards.
Participate in peer review of network configuration change requests prior to deployment.
Implementation of configuration changes.
Tier III Support and Maintenance activities.
Service Requests: design, deploy, monitor, resolve, update and close service request tickets in ServiceNow.
Documenting network infrastructure components, drawings using Visio.
Assist in developing and documenting procedures and processes.
Uses monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to troubleshoot and isolate problems, gauge performance and activity.
May develop and execute contingency plans for network related hardware failures, including isolated and major outages.