Network Engineer IV

Invictus International; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Invictus International, a Red River company, seeks a Network Engineer IV in Alexandria, VA to design and implement enterprise network solutions and analyze requirements for mission-critical initiatives.

The role requires TS/SCI with CI poly, CCNP or equivalent, and hands-on experience across Palo Alto, Fortinet, and Cisco ASA firewalls; DoD/IC background strongly preferred.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field; 4 years of experience may substitute for degree.
• 8+ years of relevant experience in enterprise network engineering or DoD/IC environments.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining enterprise firewall infrastructure (physical and virtual).
• Ability to monitor firewall logs and ensure security incidents are resolved with minimal downtime.
• Current DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNP (or equivalent) certifications required.
• Active TS/SCI clearance with ability to obtain/maintain CI polygraph.
• Experience in a DoD or Intelligence Community environment preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and documentation.
• Develop risk management and mitigation strategy.
• Maintain QA standards and service performance indicators.
• Review RFCs/CRQs and assess impacts on transport activities; provide technical solutions and cost impacts.
• Design, implement, and analyze complex telecommunications networks across the enterprise.
• Engineer and implement solutions based on customer CRQs; serve as technical project representative.

Skills

Requirements analysis

Technical communication

Team coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Palo Alto Firewall

Fortinet Firewall

Cisco ASA

Job description

Title: Network Engineer IV

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Description:

Invictus, a Red River company, delivers technology and services supporting government and national security missions. We combine cleared mission expertise with enterprise engineering, technology partnerships and large-program execution in support of advanced modernization, cybersecurity, intelligence and systems integration. Our teams support complex operational environments across the U.S. and around the world, helping customers strengthen resilience, accelerate mission outcomes and deploy capabilities that meet demanding mission requirements. Learn more at www.InvictusIC.com.

Job Details:

• Develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation
• Develop risk management and mitigation strategy
• Maintain compliance with QA standards as well as ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded
• Experience in reviewing mission related change requirements such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs) and determining impacts on transport activities across the enterprise while providing technical solutions and cost impacts
• Experience in complex telecommunications applications involving all phases of telecommunications network design, implementation, and analysis
• Focus will be on requirements analysis, development and implementation
• Engineer and implement solutions for projects based on customer CRQs
• Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects
• Provide recommendations on newly submitted actions items
• Coordinate issues with the appropriate owners/organizations
• Provide concurrence on decisions or recommendations by assigned suspense
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis and test/workflow analysis
• Write requirement specs according to standard templates
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements
• Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams)
• Perform requirement analysis and verification, ensuring requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and they conform to standards
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the review process
• Identify requirement errors and defects, and write response statements to appropriate owners/organizations
• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives
• Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance capacity, performance and reliability of the network
• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization and industry best practices
• Follows all customer network security processes and procedures, ensures compliance with all government policies
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of experience be substituted in lieu of a degree
• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant experience in addition to education level
• Experience with design, implementation, and maintaining enterprise-level firewall infrastructure to ensure network security and performance, including both physical and virtual firewalls (e.g., Palo Alto, Fortinet, Cisco ASA)
• Ability to monitor and analyze firewall logs to proactively identify and resolve security incidents, ensuring minimal network downtime and compliance with company security policies
• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNP (or equivalent) certifications
• Experience working in a DoD or Intelligence Community Environment desired
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veteran/Disabled