Fort Meade Onsite Network Admin - TS/SCI

Zachary Piper Solutions; Fort Meade, Northern (MD, KY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Network System Administrator to join a leading technology and engineering company delivering mission-critical IT, cybersecurity, digital modernization, and defense solutions to U.S. government and national security customers.

This a fully onsite role in Fort Meade, MD, and requires an active TS/SCI security clearance* The Network Systems Administrator will support the operations, engineering, and sustainment of a mission-critical IP messaging and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 4+ years of network engineering/troubleshooting experience.
• Hands-on experience with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls.
• CCNP Route/Switch and/or Security preferred.
• Deep knowledge of defense-in-depth, network/security architecture, WAN technologies.
• Experience in NetOps, change/configuration/performance management.
• Strong documentation, analysis, reporting, presentation, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• CompTIA Security+ Certification.
• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Willingness to work onsite in Fort Meade, MD + up to 10% travel.
• IAT Level II Certification (e.g. CISSP, CASP+) preferred.

Responsibilities

• Network integration, testing, security engineering, and implementation configuration support.
• Collaborate with network architects to define and/or continuously improve STIG compliant configuration baselines, versioning, and compliance tracking.
• Test and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
• Lead development of SOPs/TTPs.
• Support Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
• Support system performance tuning and enhancements.
• Create and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP).
• Support tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
• Active participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management activities.
• Participate in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and engineering for production deployments.
• Perform highly technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, and load balancers.
• Provide expert knowledge of network engineering and operations, large-scale enterprise network solution implementation and transition to NetOps.

Skills

Routing & Switching

Cisco Devices

Security+ Certification

TS/SCI clearance

CCNP Route/Switch

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Cisco IOS

Firewall & VPN

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions is seeking an experienced Network System Administrator to join a leading technology and engineering company delivering mission-critical IT, cybersecurity, digital modernization, and defense solutions to U.S. government and national security customers.

This a fully onsite role in Fort Meade, MD, and requires an active TS/SCI security clearance* The Network Systems Administrator will support the operations, engineering, and sustainment of a mission-critical IP messaging and