Network Solutions Engineer – Enterprise Network SME

GD Information Technology • Fairview Park, OH

1d • Remote

About The Position

GDIT is seeking a Network Solutions Engineer (Enterprise Network SME) to design, optimize, and deliver advanced network solutions for mission‑critical Federal environments. In this role, you'll support customer engagements, innovation initiatives, and solution development efforts across the Office of the CTO and GDIT’s COVE AIOps Digital Accelerator. If you're energized by shaping modern network architectures and solving complex technical challenges, this role offers high impact and high visibility.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree or 19+ years of progressive technical and leadership experience.
• 15+ years in enterprise network engineering, design, implementation, and customer‑facing technical leadership.
• Strong communication, analytical, and time‑management skills.
• Ability to design, present, and lead complex network solution initiatives in fast‑paced environments.
• US Citizenship required.
• Candidate must possess active secret, ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.

Nice To Haves

• 8 years or more of Expert‑level experience with Cisco routing/switching and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Advanced L2/L3 protocol mastery (OSPF, BGP, STP, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6).
• Experience designing networks across on‑prem, cloud (AWS/Azure), and hybrid architectures.
• Strong packet analysis skills (Wireshark) and ability to resolve multi‑layer issues.
• Hands‑on physical infrastructure experience with copper/fiber cabling.
• Experience integrating monitoring/observability tools into enterprise ecosystems.
• CCIE, CCNP, PCNSE, JNCIE, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, Network+ Security certifications.

Responsibilities

• Architect and optimize enterprise‑grade networks across multi‑vendor environments (Cisco, Palo Alto, and more).
• Deliver technical briefings, solution demos, and customer‑facing presentations that translate complex architectures into mission value.
• Create authoritative architecture documents, diagrams, runbooks, and build guides for engineering and customer teams.
• Deploy and validate network solutions across lab and production environments, including copper and fiber physical infrastructure.
• Serve as an SME on proposals (RFIs/RFPs), contributing technical volumes, solution approaches, and cost‑informed recommendations.
• Integrate network monitoring and observability platforms (SolarWinds, PRTG, Elastic, etc.) into hybrid environments.
• Develop firewall policies, segmentation strategies, and perimeter architectures aligned to Federal cybersecurity and Zero Trust frameworks.
• Provide deep troubleshooting expertise including packet analysis, protocol diagnostics, and IPv4/IPv6 network assessment.

Benefits

• Variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts
• Dental plan options
• Vision plan
• 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match
• Full flex work weeks where possible
• Variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time
• 10 paid holidays per year
• Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees
• Short and long-term disability benefits
• Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

What This Job Offers

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