Location
Springfield, VA | United States
Job description
Description
This is a senior network engineer position within the Vanguard Contract, providing network engineering expertise over a Global LAN/WAN enterprise. The well qualified candidate will possess and apply comprehensive knowledge regarding the engineering and implementation of network transport solutions. The candidate must be capable of planning and leading the testing, implementation, and maintenance of networking (LAN/WAN) technologies and devices. The candidate must be capable of evaluating performance results, performing risk assessments, and recommending changes affecting network transport configuration/implementation. The position directly supports DoS on-site to provide network engineering services to over 100,000 customers globally.
Responsibilities
- Works directly with the DoS customer to build, design, test and deploy enterprise network transport solutions utilizing Cisco routers/switches.
- Develop and deploy network engineering solutions in compliance with Enterprise Architecture standards.
- Collaborate with technical SMEs on enterprise-wide solutions, participate in technical working groups, and contribute to technical advisory boards.
- Participate in peer review of network configuration change requests prior to deployment.
- Implementation of configuration changes.
- Tier III Support and Maintenance activities.
- Service Requests: monitor, resolve, update and close service request tickets.
- Documenting network infrastructure components, drawings.
- Assist in developing and documenting procedures and processes.
Qualifications
Required Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in a computer science/computer engineering related discipline; may accept additional experience in lieu of degree
- 10+ years IT security/network engineering support experience (Engineering, Tier II, Tier III, network infrastructure implementation and maintenance)
- Solid understanding and analysis of network flows and OSI model
- Experience implementing large enterprise/global network solutions
- Expert experience in BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, GRE, DMVPN, IPSEC, MACSEC, Multicast, Unicast
- Expert experience with Cisco network platforms: routers, switches, VPN concentrators, network management (ISR/ASR/Nexus).
- Expert knowledge of TCP/IP networking
- Experience in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- Experience with Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)
- Experience with VMWare products
- Experience working directly with Government customer
- Technical writing and documentation/diagram skills (MS Visio/MS Word/MS Excel)
Required Clearance
- US Citizenship
- Active Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain a Top Secret Clearance
Preferred Qualifications
- Cisco Certified Network Professional – CCNP
- Experience with SD-WAN technologies
- Experience with Cloud technologies, Microsoft Azure/Amazon Web Services
- DoDAF/TOGAF architecture experience
- Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert (MCSE)
- Experience leading a small team (3-5) of engineers
- Experience with network monitoring tools (NetVCR, NeuralStar, HPNA, Nagios)
- Experienced with Dept of Defense’s Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet)
SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.
Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.
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