Lead network engineer

Title: Lead Network Engineer

Location: Fort Meade MD ( Hybrid Role )

Clearance: Secret or Top Secret or Higher

Certification: CompTIA SEC+ CE

Requirements

One of our partner is seeking a highly skilled Lead Network Engineer, to join our program team in Fort Meade, MD.

This is an exciting key position and opportunity to leverage your experience, skills, and leadership by providing support for end-to-end engineering solutions for DISN projects. As Lead Network Engineer, you will lead and oversee the planning and implementation of solutions across multiple technologies and platforms in the DISN and provide end-to-end integrated solutions ensuring mission success. You will support and lead technical planning, analysis, engineering, and testing for DISN initiatives and make technical recommendations.

Responsibilities (include, but not limited to):

• Analyzes and studies complex system requirements.

• Designs software tools and subsystems to support software reuse and domain analyses and manages their implementation.

• Develop and validate system architecture.

• Develop and support initial implementation and provide lifecycle engineering of network architecture.

• Support Quality of Service (QoS) policies, requirements, and testing.

• Provide technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex DoD networks.

• Provide emerging insertion technologies (i.e. new features, capabilities, etc.).

• Support mission partners to satisfy the interoperability requirements.

• Provide all required documentation in support of Configuration Control Boards (CCB) and supervises software configuration management.

• Provide Tier III support and oversee Tier III support engineers.

• Conduct market research to find products to meet requirements.

• Implement MPLS services offerings on the DISN network called IP Transport Provider Edge (IPTPE). MPLS services include L3VPN, L2VPN, Virtual Private LAN service (VPLS) and Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC). IPTPE platforms tested include Juniper MX960/MX480 and Cisco ASR9010/ASR9006 routers.

• Perform testing and support implementation of the DMZ COI VPN (part of NIPRNet Hardening project), which provides separation of the NIPRNet traffic and Mission Critical Community of Interest (COI) traffic using the MPLS L3VPN service.

• Configure and perform crypto testing and troubleshooting using various protocols.

• Provide technical security expertise in design, test, evaluation, and deployment of advanced large-scale complex DoD networks. Review security requirements set by DoD agencies for the NIPRNET network protection; Assess and analyze current NIPRNET network architecture; Propose and analyze potential solutions.

• Reviews security threats to the current DoD NIPRNet/Internet gateway IA infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determines/implements effective countermeasures IAW established policies/regulations/directives.

• Deliver Router and Firewall Test Plans and resulting Test Reports; prepare field recommendations and Configuration Guides

Experience/Qualifications:

• DoD and/or Government program experience preferred; DISA experience a plus.

• BA/BS in a technical discipline (engineering, information technology, etc.) with at least 10 years of experience

• Large Enterprise or DoD IP Design Experience running BGP/MP-BGP (multi AS) and MPLS routing protocols

• Extensive router regression testing experience with Cisco ASR9K (ASR9010/ASR9006) routers

• Strong routing protocols experience: BGP, MPLS/RSVP, OSPF, IS-IS, Multicast, Layer-2/Layer-3 Virtual Private Network (VPN) and Carrier Supporting Carrier (CsC).

• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools: PowerPoint, Word, and Excel

• Excellent communication (verbal and written), effective leadership, and interpersonal skills

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $160, $180,000.00 per year

Application Question(s):

• Total years of DoD/Government Environment
• Please provide your current location along with zipcode
• Are you willing to come initial 1 or 2 months onsite
• Have you presented your resume to DISA before If yes when?

Experience:

• Advanced Networking Protocols: 10 years (Required)
• VPN and Virtualization Services: 10 years (Required)
• Cisco ASR9K (ASR9010/ASR9006): 5 years (Required)
• uniper MX960/MX480 routers: 5 years (Required)
• Network Architecture & Design: 10 years (Required)
• Quality of Service (QoS): 10 years (Required)
• large-scale complex DoD networks (NIPRNet): 10 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• CompTIA SEC+ CE (Required)

Security clearance:

• Top Secret (Required)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Fort Meade, FL 33841