Network Engineer

Interactive Process Technology LLC • Bath Township, OH

12d • Onsite

About The Position

IPT Associates (IPTA) is seeking a Network Engineer to support enterprise network infrastructure primarily at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. The role involves designing, configuring, maintaining, monitoring, securing, and troubleshooting networks and related connectivity. The position is contingent upon contract award, and the actual job description may vary based on contract requirements and organizational needs.

The engineer will support network availability, capacity, health, and performance; develop scalable solutions; and recommend upgrades and technology refreshes in response to mission, performance, and security needs. The role also supports connections for servers, data centers, storage, backup, voice, video, and conference-room technologies, along with disaster recovery and continuity-of-operations efforts. Occasional extended hours or on-call outage response may be required.

IPTA describes its culture as collaborative, supportive, and down-to-earth, emphasizing determination, integrity, service, learning, growth, and initiative. IPTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and states that employment decisions are merit-based and consistent with applicable federal laws and federal contracting requirements.

Requirements

• Active Secret security clearance.
• Current role-appropriate DoD Cyberspace Workforce qualification meeting DoDM 8140.03 requirements, with Security+ as the minimum, and any required operating-system or technology certification.
• Hands-on experience designing, configuring, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise LAN and WAN environments.
• Knowledge of routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, intrusion detection and prevention, VPNs, network monitoring, capacity planning, and copper and fiber-optic cabling.
• Ability to maintain technical documentation and comply with privileged-user, cybersecurity, information-protection, and controlled-unclassified-information requirements.
• Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent relevant education and experience.
• Five or more years of network engineering or administration experience.
• Ability to work primarily at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and support occasional extended hours or on-call outage response.

Nice To Haves

• DoD experience.
• A relevant certification such as CCNA, CCNP, or Network+.

Responsibilities

• Design, configure, maintain, monitor, and secure enterprise network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and VPNs.
• Monitor network availability, capacity, health, and performance; troubleshoot outages and connectivity issues; perform root-cause analysis; and coordinate resolution with technical teams.
• Develop scalable network solutions and recommend upgrades, technology refreshes, and configuration changes based on mission, performance, and security needs.
• Install, test, certify, and troubleshoot copper and fiber-optic cabling, coordinating work with external organizations when required.
• Support connectivity for servers, data centers, storage, backup, voice, video, and conference-room technologies.
• Apply approved security baselines, patches, firmware updates, and change-management practices.
• Maintain network diagrams, configurations, procedures, implementation records, and hardware and software inventories.
• Support disaster recovery, continuity of operations, and assigned after-hours outage response.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level