Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading existing networks.
• Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents.
• Performs general LAN/CAN/WAN administration.
• Schedules conversions and cutovers.
• Coordinates with all responsible users and sites to resolve network or system incidents.
• Translates business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, CAN, WAN, Voice and Video) requirements, designs and orders.
• Performs engineering analysis of telecommunications alternatives to support strategic modernization efforts and telecommunications enhancement design for medium and large-scale telecommunication infrastructures.
• Assists telecommunications end users, operations personnel, and strategic program management with network interfaces.

Minimum Experience

• A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security Systems Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited college or university and ten (10) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support and training commensurate with network engineering curriculum.
• In place of a Master’s degree, a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline and an additional two (2) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for a total of 12 years.
• In place of a Master’s or Bachelor’s degree and, in addition, six (6) years of relevant experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for a total of 16 years.
• An Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level III baseline certification is required as defined by DoD 8570.01-M.
• Cisco certification is required.

Capabilities

• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Conduct data capture to obtain network performance information.
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
• Provide input to the design of the organization’s network and mission architecture.
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies.
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
• Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements.
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.
• Configure and maintain the organization’s network diagrams and accreditations.
• Oversee the support of all network equipment.
• Develop designs of the organization’s network and mission architecture to meet new partner requirements.
• Manage assigned tasks and guide junior Network Engineers.
• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.
• Resolve complex network problems, and operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators.
• Design modules representing traditional circuit-switched networks.
• Lead large efforts and installation projects of dynamic requirements and scale.
• Develop algorithms for models using networking and telecommunications technologies and systems.