Network Engineer Senior Level

ELEVI Associates•Fort Meade, MD

About The Position

This role is for a Senior Network Engineer at ELEVI, a company that values its employees and offers opportunities for skill expansion and personal growth. The position involves supporting network design, implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks. The engineer will also provide input to network architecture, perform configuration and optimization of network equipment, minimize latency, and maximize throughput. Responsibilities include developing algorithms, ensuring material integrity, maintaining network diagrams and accreditations, integrating hardware and software to meet DoD/IC regulations, designing and deploying solutions to network issues, optimizing system performance, coordinating with dataflow organizations, implementing specific network solutions (e.g., load-balancing, VPNs, firewalls, VoIP, IPSec), and managing junior engineers.

Requirements

Must hold a current Poly clearance
Twelve (12) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support is required.
DoD 8570 compliance with Information Assurance Technical (IAT), Level I or higher is required

Responsibilities

Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks.
Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents.
Performs general LAN/CAN/WAN administration.
Schedules conversions and cutovers.
Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture.
Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately.
Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance to all network equipment.
Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
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 Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT).
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.
Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements.
Manage, develop work schedules and direct the work of junior level engineers.