Mission-Critical Navy Network Administrator

SAIC; Suffolk (VA); On-site; USD 80,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SAIC in Suffolk, VA is seeking a Network Administrator to support US Navy IT networks, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability of a deployed naval transport network. The role covers end-to-end network visibility, maintenance, provisioning, and rapid issue resolution in a mission-critical environment.

On-site position with rotating shifts and TS/SCI considerations. You will work with routing, switching, firewalls, and network visibility tools to maintain performance and security across

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science or a related discipline and two (2) years relevant experience supporting a large network infrastructure
• Additional experience can be considered in lieu of degree
• IAT Level II required (Sec +), CCNA/CCNP. Six-month waiver authorized to obtain

Responsibilities

• Provide Tier 2 level engineering operations support to quickly identify, triage, and address outages, analyzing symptoms and potential root causes to implement effective resolutions or elevate to Tier 3 support as required
• Utilize advanced monitoring tools and processes to oversee network infrastructure, monitor the performance and availability of managed services and systems across multiple exchange points, and ensure optimal performance
• Perform day to day maintenance, fixes, configuration corrections, software and hardware updates, and deployments
• Adhere to system and operational reporting obligations
• Operate and maintain the privileged access solutions
• Maintain continuous verification of failover processes and disaster recovery procedures
• Operate and maintain hardware upgrade process and procedures
• Update and maintain any software builds applicable to deployed equipment
• Enact change management for the solution
• Operate and maintain existing incident management processes
• Keep firmware, software updates and patches up to date for equipment
• Support the design, analysis, planning, modification and maintenance of the network and network components supporting data, voice and/or audio communication activities
• Support analysis of short/long term capacity needs for switching, routing transmission and signaling
• Conducts testing of network systems
• Support the evaluation of new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network

Skills

Routing protocols

ACLs

Layer 2 switching

Spanning Tree

Packet analysis

Spine-Leaf

Education

Bachelor of Science in CS

Tools

Arista switches

Palo Alto Firewalls

Gigamon

NetScout

SD-WAN

Cisco ISE

Job description

SAIC in Suffolk, VA is seeking a Network Administrator to support US Navy IT networks, ensuring 24/7/365 availability and reliability of a deployed naval transport network. The role covers end-to-end network visibility, maintenance, provisioning, and rapid issue resolution in a mission-critical environment.

On-site position with rotating shifts and TS/SCI considerations. You will work with routing, switching, firewalls, and network visibility tools to maintain performance and security across