Senior Network Engineer

Govcio LLC•Tampa, FL

2d•Onsite

About The Position

GovCIO is hiring a Senior Network Engineer to provide operational and integration support for a multi-vendor infrastructure, including networks, systems, and a virtual training environment. The role is based in Tampa, Florida, and is onsite, with flexible remote work depending on project requirements. The engineer will work with a specialized team on integration, modernization, and new installations for partner nations and allies in the Southern and European Command areas of responsibility. International travel to customer locations may be required.

Requirements

High school diploma and 9+ years of experience, or commensurate experience.
Active Secret clearance.
Valid U.S. passport and preparedness to travel internationally up to 40% to customer locations in Eastern Europe, Africa, Southeast Asia, and South America.
Proficiency with network diagramming and productivity tools such as Visio, Lucid, and AutoCAD.
Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification, such as Security+ CE, CCNA Security, CySA+, or CASP.
Entry-level experience in Cyber Network Defense (CND) or Cybersecurity Operations, or current CCNA-level certification.
Knowledge of multi-area OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and MPLS environments.
Experience setting up IPSec VPNs, GRE tunnels, and DMVPN architecture.
Experience with L2 and L3 protocols over campus and WAN networks.
Experience with multitiered hub-and-spoke network design.

Nice To Haves

Relevant MS degree and 2+ years of relevant experience; BS degree and 5+ years of relevant experience; or high school diploma and 9+ years of relevant network design and implementation experience. Specific expertise, education, and training may be considered in place of a degree.
Senior military background in Signal, Communications, or Information Technology MOSs.
CCNA Security or CCNA CyberOps; alternatively, JNCDA/JNCIA, PCCET/PCNSE, CCNP Security, or CCNP Service Provider (SPCORE).
Fluency in conversational and written Spanish.

Responsibilities

Gather information about Company product capabilities, investigate technical capabilities of Company products and competing equipment and solutions, and stay current on hardware and software developments.
Generate quantifiable requirements from customer descriptions and system planning and design, and ensure compliance through formal verification methods.
Translate high-level product development strategies into network and system requirement specifications, and work with other engineering disciplines to develop detailed implementation requirements.
Establish and coordinate standards, practices, and procedures for overall network and system development.
Design interfaces and integrate network and system elements.
Assess performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures.
Provide customer liaison and support for business development, including understanding and shaping requirements.
Provide engineering and implementation support for integration, modernization, and new installations for partner nations and allies.
Install network equipment and cabling in complex data center environments.
Provide operational and integration support for multi-vendor infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, and servers.
Support routing and switching, including designing, testing, and implementing dynamic routing protocols, layer two technologies, and major vendor command-line environments.
Configure, install, and manage routers, switches, firewalls, intrusion detection systems, VLANs, MPLS, IP routing protocols, IP multicast, and QoS under the direction of senior engineers and network architects.
Ensure appropriate routing protocols are applied to optimize end-to-end performance across LAN, WAN, campus, storage, and data center networks.
Assist customers in identifying derived design objectives, technical specifications, performance requirements, and interoperability specifications to meet end-to-end stakeholder requirements.
Document networks, system changes, and required checklists in the configuration baseline.
Use network drawing and productivity tools such as Visio, Lucid, and AutoCAD.