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# Network Engineer

- **Company:** IPT Associates
- **Location:** Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, OH, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** System Configuration, Data Centers, Disaster Recovery, Firmware, Intrusion Detection and Prevention, Virtual Private Networks (VPN), Network Diagrams, Network Monitoring, Routing, Network Routers, Load Balancing, Firewalls (Computer Science)
- **Published:** October 27, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.clearancejobs.com/jobs/9274852/network-engineer

## About the Role

* Are curious and excited about technology

 * Like solving problems and figuring things out

 * Can take initiative but also enjoy working with a team

 * Want to keep learning, growing, and challenging themselves

If you're someone who's eager to jump in, learn something new, and make an impact-you'll fit right in here., * Active Secret security clearance.

 * Current role-appropriate DoD Cyberspace Workforce qualification meeting DoDM 8140.03 requirements (minimum Security +) and any required operating-system or technology certification.
 * Hands-on experience designing, configuring, securing, monitoring, and troubleshooting enterprise LAN and WAN environments.
 * Knowledge of routing, switching, firewalls, load balancing, intrusion detection and prevention, VPNs, network monitoring, capacity planning, and copper and fiber-optic cabling.
 * Ability to maintain technical documentation and comply with privileged-user, cybersecurity, information-protection, and controlled-unclassified-information requirements.
 * Bachelor's degree in a related technical field or equivalent relevant education and experience.
 * Five or more years of network engineering or administration experience; DoD experience and a relevant certification such as CCNA, CCNP, or Network+ are preferred.
 * Ability to work primarily at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base and support occasional extended hours or on-call outage response.

## Description

* Design, configure, maintain, monitor, and secure enterprise network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, intrusion detection and prevention systems, and VPNs.
 * Monitor availability, capacity, health, and performance; troubleshoot outages and connectivity issues, perform root-cause analysis, and coordinate resolution with technical teams.
 * Develop scalable network solutions and recommend upgrades, technology refreshes, and configuration changes based on mission, performance, and security needs.
 * Install, test, certify, and troubleshoot copper and fiber-optic cabling, coordinating work with external organizations when required.
 * Support connectivity for servers, data centers, storage, backup, voice, video, and conference-room technologies.
 * Apply approved security baselines, patches, firmware updates, and change-management practices.
 * Maintain network diagrams, configurations, procedures, implementation records, and hardware and software inventories.
 * Support disaster recovery, continuity of operations, and assigned after-hours outage response.