Network Transport Engineer

ARL is an authorized DoD SkillBridge partner and welcomes all transitioning military members to apply.

You will:

• Design and implement communications complex solutions (CI/CD) which can be deployed to field/remote locations to connect secure facilities and support the exchange of required data within a cloud environment
• Involved  in the design and implementation of approved networking and transport solutions to support long-term Information System (IS) management goals; install and configure network equipment, and provide support to systems administrators
• Monitor computer systems to improve network performance; lead troubleshooting efforts to resolve networking issues between local and external sites
• Manage and maintain a library of network engineering tools to be used for system testing and diagnosis of network-related system issues, both locally and abroad
• Apply leading-edge principles, theories, and concepts to the development, maintenance, and implementation of network engineering standards, procedures, and guidelines
• Maintain current knowledge and implement best practices in networking security to offer the best solutions and protection to information systems
• Produce documentation to support installation, configuration, troubleshooting, and operator usage of systems
• Contribute technical content and tutorials to product documentation
• Work directly with customers to plan and strategize

Additional responsibilities for higher level position includes:

• Serve as the technical architect responsible for developing and maintaining technical architecture standards, principles, and processes
• Establish a technical architecture discipline and lead enterprise implementation and collaboration
• Lead and/or contribute to the development of technical architecture strategies for a broad range of core infrastructure and services
• Lead the review of current and future system technical architecture designs to ensure they deliver the required performance, availability, resiliency, and capacity to support business and mission critical activities
• Research architectural best practices and collaborate in establishing and implementing best practices
• Analyze, design, and plan the phases of technology systems

Required skills/experience areas include:

• Implementation and understanding of engineering principles in a professional environment
• Development, implementation, and maintenance of network architectures
• Experience maintaining, configuring, operating and troubleshooting complex electronic computer interface systems and network equipment
• Active government Top Secret security clearance
• Minimum of IAT Level 2 (CompTIA Security + and OS/Computing Environment certification)
• Working knowledge of DoD Information Assurance (IA) policies to be applied to the design and maintenance of communications solutions
• Flexibility and comfort level in a customer facing role, working within company and customer schedule requirements which may vary depending on criticality and necessity of a given task
• Ability to work independently and implementing technical solutions autonomously
• Demonstrated ability to work through difficult problems, using proper steps to define and formulate ideas to reach a solution
• Ability to represent successful completion of work in Agile Management systems (e.g. Jira, Confluence, GitLab)

Preferred certifications include:

• CCNA/CCNP
• Palo Alto PCNSE
• Juniper JNCIS/JNCIP

Your working location will be fully on-site, located in San Diego, CA and you will be working in secure facilities approximately 75% of the time.  Remote work may be available in a limited capacity.  Up to 25% Travel may be required to support distant end installation or break fix actions at quick notice.