DoD Network Engineer - Secret Clearance, On-Site

Prana Comunicación; Dayton (OH); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IPT Associates (IPTA) is seeking a seasoned Network Engineer to design, deploy, and secure enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructures at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will monitor performance, implement security baselines, and coordinate with teams to ensure rapid, reliable connectivity for critical systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and cabling, plus DoD-compliant documentation and extended-hours support.

Qualifications

• Active Secret security clearance required.
• 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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Skills

Security clearance

DoD qualification (8140.03)

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related technical field

Job description

IPT Associates (IPTA) is seeking a seasoned Network Engineer to design, deploy, and secure enterprise LAN/WAN infrastructures at Wright-Patterson AFB. You will monitor performance, implement security baselines, and coordinate with teams to ensure rapid, reliable connectivity for critical systems.

The role requires hands-on experience with routers, switches, firewalls, VPNs, and cabling, plus DoD-compliant documentation and extended-hours support.