Network Engineering

CACI International • Columbia, MD

99d • $103,800 - $218,100

About The Position

The Network Engineer provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading existing networks.

Requirements

• Ten (10) years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university.
• Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Five (5) years experience with the following Network Tools; What’s Up Gold and NetFlow.
• Three years’ experience with DCID 6/3 and/or ICD 503, 'Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation'.
• Three years’ experience creating firewall rule sets from analysis of network traffic.
• Three years’ experience with component validation of security devices.
• Three years’ experience integrating boundary solutions into customer networks.
• Three years’ experience configuring switches, routers, and firewalls.
• Five (5) years’ demonstrated experience in Computer Network Operations, Protection Level (PL) 3 high/high solutions utilizing Layer 2 to Layer 7.

Responsibilities

• Analyze designs, specifications, and related documents.
• Implement communications system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment.
• Analyze network characteristics, troubleshoot problems and recommend procurement of and/or modifications to network components.
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide support for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies.
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Configure/optimize network to connect to various front- and back-end components.
• Coordinate with system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations with minimum down time.
• Facilitate implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN/LAN design.
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers.
• Validate new/existing dataflow and data formats.
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and understand potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow.
• Design, integrate, test and deploy RF communications solutions.
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale.
• Work with Systems Engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements.
• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators.
• Design, implement, and evaluate security systems.
• Contribute to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management.
• Support the Government in providing technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Recommend corporate solutions to resolve security requirements.
• Support the Government in enforcement of design / implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness programs
• Financial benefits
• Retirement benefits
• Family support
• Continuing education
• Time off benefits

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees