Network Administrator

Career Listings; Springfield (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k)

401(k) matching

Dental insurance

Health insurance

Paid time off

Profit sharing

Tuition assistance

Vision insurance

Job summary

SarelaTech is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to support large-scale DoD contract operations, overseeing Tier I–III network engineering activities. You will monitor and troubleshoot global networks, lead incident response efforts, and coordinate with mission partners and leadership to ensure reliable IT services.

This role requires DoD clearance, strong documentation skills, and experience designing secure, scalable networks across complex environments.

Qualifications

• 8–12 years of network engineering experience for Bachelor’s degree (or 6–10 years with Master's).
• CCNA or equivalent certification required; DoD IAT Level II (Security+) active.
• Active DoD Top Secret clearance at time of consideration.
• Experience documenting designs with Visio/Gliffy/Cameo/MagicDraw.
• Experience troubleshooting complex network issues, both LAN and WAN.
• Familiarity with DoD CM and CAB processes.

Responsibilities

• Lead Tier I–III network operations engineering teams.
• Monitor global enterprise networks with DoD-approved tools.
• Develop and enforce incident response workflows and procedures.
• Serve as senior technical contact for outages and cybersecurity incidents.
• Coordinate with DISA, Joint Forces, and Combatant Commands on status.
• Plan secure network designs and underlay/overlay connectivity.
• Prepare AARs and executive summaries for leadership.
• Design secure access solutions and capacity planning.
• Ensure DoD security posture and accreditation artifacts.

Skills

Network engineering

Tier I–III troubleshooting

Incident response

Monitoring networks

Technical documentation

Solution architecture

Stakeholder communication

Security concepts

Team leadership

DoD protocols

WAN/LAN routing

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Science/Engineering/Math (preferred)

Master’s degree (optional)

Tools

Visio

PowerPoint

Gliffy

Cameo

MagicDraw

SolarWinds

NetOps

Splunk

ACAS

Job description

Benefits:

• 401(k)


• 401(k) matching


• Dental insurance


• Health insurance


• Paid time off


• Profit sharing


• Tuition assistance


• Vision insurance

SarelaTech is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to support large-scale operations on a large, high-profile DOD contract. The I3TS program provides enterprise-wide IT support to enable DTRA’s Information Management & Technology Directorate (ITD) to consolidate, modernize, and continuously innovate the delivery of IT services and mission capabilities to DTRA’s internal and external mission partners operating in CONUS and OCONUS locations. The Sr. Network Engineer/Architect will support the current infrastructure and new, modernized, updated, and upgraded capabilities for DTRA. This role will be responsible for tech requirements definition, feasibility studies, pilot projects and implementation plans, as well as diagnosing and troubleshooting outages, monitoring networks, infrastructure and systems, and providing proactive mitigation strategies.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Lead and coordinate Tier I–III network operations engineering personnel to ensure network troubleshooting efforts are effectively built.


• Oversee real-time monitoring of global enterprise networks using DoD-approved tools (e.g., SolarWinds, NetOps, Splunk, ACAS).


• Develop and enforce operational procedures, incident response workflows, and escalation protocols.


• Act as the senior technical point of contact for major outages, network events, or cybersecurity incidents.


• Interface with mission partners, DISA, Joint Forces, and Combatant Commands on network status, issues, and operational impacts.


• Ensure all network changes follow configuration management (CM) and DoD Change Advisory Board (CAB) procedures.


• Prepare and deliver operational briefs, after-action reports (AARs), and executive summaries to senior leadership.


• Develop and coordinate the network operations team that


• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.


• Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.


• Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and developing associated implementation and transition plans.


• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.


• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.


• Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.


• Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.


• Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance with DoW standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (preferred) with 8-12 years' experience or Master's degree with 6-10 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).


• Require network certification that meets or exceeds a CCNA (comparable vendor certification accepted upon review).


• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e., Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.


• Must possess an active DoD Top Secret at time of consideration.


• Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g., Visio, PowerPoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure


• Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.


• Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.


• Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.


• Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.


• Must have experience working with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.


• Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.


• Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.


• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.


• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant importance to the organization/project.


• Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals.

Desired Qualifications:

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.


• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as SolarWinds, MECM, Core Light, BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy), JIRA, etc.


• Hands-on experience with WAN, LAN, SPPNs, DECCs, compute, storage, capability delivery platforms, telecommunications, and circuits


• Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.


• Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.


• Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.


• Reporting and Business Applications: Power BI, SharePoint, SQL