Network Engineer

International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO); Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

MANTECH seeks an experienced Network Engineer to join our team in the Ft. Meade, MD area.

The role focuses on designing, implementing, and supporting secure network solutions across multi-platform environments, including PKI, IPsec, and VPN-enabled networks. Candidates must have extensive experience with SDN, Cisco ACI or VMware NSX, Ansible scripting, and Python automation, plus a TS/SCI clearance with poly.

Qualifications

• 14 years of experience with a technical degree, or 6 additional years in lieu of a degree.
• Experience implementing and supporting multi-platform, multi-system networks to diagnose performance issues and design improvements.
• Experience with complex, high-performance networks and provisioning/infrastructure management.
• Experience with peer-to-peer distributed storage networks and messaging frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Support multi-platform, multi-system network solutions and sustain infrastructures.
• Provide expertise in IP networks, WANs, and public/private networks.
• Plan and maintain LAN/WANs including connectivity, routing, security, and wireless.
• Evaluate new technologies to enhance network capabilities.
• Research SDN and automation with Ansible and Python.

Skills

Network engineering

VPN/IPsec

Routing & QoS

SDN (Cisco ACI, VMware NSX)

Python

Ansible

PKI security

WAN/LAN design

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical discipline

Tools

Cisco ACI

VMware NSX

Ansible

Python

Job description

MANTECH seeks an experienced and passionate, career and customer-oriented Network Engineer to join our team in the Ft. Meade MD area.

Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Support multi-platform, multi-system network solutions. Provision and sustain network infrastructures. Diagnose network performance shortcomings and design and implement performance improvements. Develop, operate, and manage networks in a secure PKI, IPSEC, or VPN enabled environment. Implement routing protocols, QOS, traffic shaping and policing on the network. Research and recommend advanced technologies such as software defined networking and infrastructure as code.
• Provides technical expertise in the management of a public and/or private network such as Internet protocol (IP) networks, wide area networks (WANs), and public switched telephone networks
• Plans, designs, installs, maintains, monitors, analyzes, troubleshoots, modifies and supports network communications systems to provide maximum performance and availability
• Plans, designs, implements and supports local and wide area networks (LANs/WANs) in the areas of Internet connectivity, capacity planning, routing, switching, server load balancing, network security, and wireless
• Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance network capabilities
• Experience with VxLAN implementation and Software Defined Networking to include Cisco ACI or VMware NSX.
• Scripting experience to include Ansible and Python automation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• 14 years of experience with a Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline or 6 additional years of experience may be substituted for a degree.
• Experience in the implementation and technical support of multi-platform, multi-system networks to encompass diagnosing network performance shortcomings and designing and implementing performance improvements.
• Experience supporting network solutions for complex, high performance systems.
• Experience provisioning and sustaining network infrastructures and have experience developing, operating, and managing networks
• Experience and knowledge of peer-to-peer distributed storage networks, peer-to-peer routing, and application messaging frameworks.

Clearance Requirements:

• Active TS/SCI clearance with Poly

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time
• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.