Fort Meade Onsite Network Systems Administrator – TS/SCI

Piper Companies

Fort Meade (MD)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 80,000

Full time

13 days ago

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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

Bachelors Degree and 4+ years of network engineering/troubleshooting experience, including routing/switching, IP/subnetting, MPLS, VPNs, BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, STP, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, multicast, and enterprise WAN technologies.
Hands-on experience deploying, configuring, and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise routers, switches, firewalls, and security devices; CCNP Route/Switch and/or Security preferred.
Strong knowledge of defense-in-depth, network/security architecture, network topology, device integrity, security controls, and emerging network technologies.

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 providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to be deployed into production.
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 Network Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities. Perform highly technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches, security solutions, and WANX.