Network System Engineer
About The Position
M9 Solutions is seeking a Network System Engineer to work on-site in Scottsdale, Arizona, supporting a government contract. The role designs, implements, verifies, operates, and troubleshoots data communications networks supporting satellite ground systems. It includes network work across different classification levels and participation in site equipment deployments. An active Secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship are required. Travel may be up to 50%, including surges during deployments; a U.S. passport is required because some travel may be outside the United States. The position works mainly in an office setting, with some work in a raised-floor computing environment.
Requirements
- Active Secret security clearance.
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related Science or Mathematics field and 5 or more years of relevant experience, or a master's degree and 3 or more years of relevant experience.
- U.S. citizenship.
- Ability to travel up to 50%, including surges during site equipment deployments.
- U.S. passport, as some travel may be outside the United States.
Nice To Haves
- Enterprise network design and topology experience.
- High-speed network design and implementation experience.
- Juniper JNCIA-Junos (JNCIP preferred) or Cisco CCNA (CCNP preferred).
- Hands-on experience with Juniper SRX-series firewalls.
- Experience maintaining environments with Linux IDM and Windows Servers (DNS and account management), Juniper firewalls, Arista switches, and NAS/SAN storage.
- Experience with multicast and routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
- Experience with vulnerability scanning, system hardening, and remediation.
- Strong technical writing skills for network, system, and operations documentation.
- Experience with public cloud networking and services, including AWS.
- Experience with VMware vSphere and virtual machines.
- Experience with Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
- Six years of experience integrating and configuring switches, routers, firewalls, and gateways in IPv4 (TCP/UDP) data communications systems.
- Within the past five years, proven experience in at least two of the following: one year as a systems manager or operator in Microsoft or Linux environments (Windows Server 2012 or newer, Windows 7 or newer clients, or Linux); one year of LAN administration, operation, and architecture with 30 or more client systems; managing mixed Windows and Linux environments; or virtualization of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage, or network resources.
- Collaborative team player and clear communicator who enjoys technical leadership, continuous learning, and improving how work gets done.
Responsibilities
- Analyze network requirements and design, document, implement, and verify data communications networks supporting satellite ground systems.
- Develop network plans and designs, install components, and configure services to meet program requirements.
- Analyze network topologies, traffic, and capacity needs for monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting during deployment events.
- Support network operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting between deployments across networks of different classification levels, including security configurations, diagnostics, corrective actions, and clear change documentation.
- Install devices in equipment racks and user workspaces.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
