Network Engineer

The Network Engineer is responsible for designing technical solutions for complex problems. The candidate will: provide technical oversight of a project solution, including requirement interpretation and allocation of requirements to technical components; define processes to support the implementation of requirements; be responsible for ensuring that the technical solutions leverage industry best practices, designing security, and excellence while minimizing the total cost of ownership; and will be required to work independently with little supervision and should be flexible to work and support IT Operations needs as requested., * Define, maintain, and upgrade the overall security posture of the networks.

• Perform security audits of events, overall health and implement changes to improve the overall program’s security posture.

• Manage and allocate network installation and engineering tasks, configure and maintain communications systems, familiarity with implementation of LAN and WAN equipment including firewalls, servers, workstations, routers, switches, hubs, storage devices, A/V equipment and equipment racks.

• Ability to write and edit “build-to” and “as-built” documentation, as well as implementation and test plans for physical and logical installs of IT equipment.

• Able to engage in technical system planning beyond the network, to include applications and systems that utilize the network being delivered.

• Provide expert level analysis of voice, video, and/or data communication networks, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting, and upgrading operating systems & protocol suites

• Able to plan network layouts and configure systems to user environments.
• May provide technical support and troubleshooting to users (Tier I, II, and III)

The candidate should be able to define internal and external customer IT infrastructure architecture needs and then design solutions to meet those needs to include capacity planning, systems configuration and tuning, monitoring backups, and installations of hardware and software.

WHAT YOU’LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

• 10+ years of related Network Engineering experience
• Active TS/SCI and FS poly clearance
• Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills
• Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments

REQUIRED TECHNICAL SKILLS:

• Experience allowing voice, video traffic across port-based firewall and NGFW
• 10+ years’ experience deploying CISCO, Palo Alto, or Juniper firewall manager servers
• Experience in engineering and deploying multi firewall solutions

• Experience designing, engineering, and deploying: o Controlled interfaces (10+ years) o Firewall vendor transitioning plans o Firewall in a multicast network environment

• Experience IPSec site-to-site VPN utilizing PKI (CA)
• Experience with remote access VPN
• 8+ years configuring/maintaining CISCO ASA/Next Generations Firewall

• 7+ years configuring, designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN/WAN devices. Thorough understanding of network routing concepts (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IP MPLS)

• Basic understanding of QoS concepts
• Experience with network monitoring technologies
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements or problems and convert them into technical solutions

• Ability to partner with systems administrators, storage administrators, and application developers to solve complex problems

• Complex problem management research and issue resolution
• Ability to mentor junior network engineers, * Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting QoS in LAN or WAN devices
• Juniper, Palo Alto, or CISCO Next Generation Firewalls Certifications
• Experience in designing, engineering, and deploying Multi-Factor Authentication solutions
• Experience in designing, engineering, and deploying Zero-Trust solutions