Network Engineer III

Black Eagle Defense; Fort Meade (MD); On-site; USD 157,000 - 214,000; Full time

Job summary

Black Eagle Defense seeks a Network Engineer III to design, implement, maintain, and upgrade complex networks in a DoD/IC environment. You will analyze design specs, ensure dataflow integrity, and implement requirements for performance and security.

The role requires 12+ years of experience, a bachelor’s degree in engineering, and CCNA/CCNP with Security+. Expect responsibilities across WAN/LAN, VPNs, NAT, and network hardening, with leadership duties and collaboration with cross-organizational

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in engineering or equivalent.
• Twelve years of experience in programs/contracts of similar scope.

Responsibilities

• Provide network design, implementation, maintenance and upgrades.
• Analyze network characteristics, identify issues and recommend improvements.
• Configure and maintain network diagrams and accreditations.
• Implement network solutions including VPNs, NAT, IPSec, VOIP and traffic shaping.
• Lead and guide junior network engineers and coordinate with dataflow teams.

Skills

Network design

Network performance monitoring

Troubleshooting

Load balancing

VPNs

VOIP

Dataflow optimization

Team guidance

System integration

Education

Bachelor’s degree in engineering

Tools

Cisco routers

Cisco switches

Cisco firewalls

Linux admin

Windows admin

Job description

SALARY RANGE

$157,000 - $214,000/year.

DUTIES

As a successful candidate for the Network Engineer III role you will provide assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks; Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents; Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment; Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.

SKILLS

• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
• Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems
• Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits a report of suspected physical incident immediately
• Configure and maintain the organization's network diagrams and accreditations
• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations
• Design, integrate, test, and deploy solutions to established network issues
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories, and tasking organizations, and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping, Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
• Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize downtime
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies
• Applies Network Acceleration techniques such as Riverbed
• Conducts inventories as directed (e.g., semiannually/annually)
• Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately
• Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance of all network equipment
• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
• Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment, and network simulators
• Assists System engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements

QUALIFICATIONS

Twelve (12) years' experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. A bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Additional Requirements

• Minimum of 3 years as a Network Engineer within the last 3 years
• Experience with Cisco routers, switches, and firewalls
• Proficient with Linux and or Windows system administration experience is a plus

CERTIFICATIONS & TECHNICAL PROFICIENCIES

A CCNA or CCNP certification is required, as well as a Security+ certification.

Desired Skills (Optional)

• Experience patching and upgrading Linux servers and networking resources
• Ansible/Salt scripts
• AWS/VMs