Network Engineer - TS/SCI w/ Poly

GDIT; North Dakota; On-site; USD 182,750 - 247,250; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401K with company match

Comprehensive health and wellness

Internal mobility team

Professional growth opportunities

Cutting-edge technology you can learn

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

GDIT in McLean, VA is seeking a Network Engineer (SME) to design technical solutions for complex problems, provide technical oversight, interpret requirements, and allocate them to components. The role emphasizes security, cost control, and industry best practices.

Responsibilities include capacity planning, configuration, backups, installations, and independent work to support IT Operations; you may lead tasks and mentor junior engineers.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of related network engineering experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• Clearance: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph.

Responsibilities

• Define, maintain, and upgrade the overall security posture of the networks.
• Manage and allocate network installation and engineering tasks; configure and maintain LAN/WAN equipment including firewalls, servers, routers, switches, storage devices.
• Provide expert level analysis of voice, video, and data networks; plan network layouts and configurations for user environments; mentor junior engineers.

Skills

Cisco ASA Firewall

LAN

Networks

Technical Support

Job description

Type of Requisition

Regular

Clearance Level Currently Required

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Required to Obtain

Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Public Trust/Other Required

None

Job Family

IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications

• Skills: Cisco ASA Firewall, Local Area Network (LAN), Networks, Technical Support
• Certifications: None
• Experience: 15 + years of related experience
• US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description

The Network Engineer (SME) is responsible for designing technical solutions for complex problems. The candidate will provide technical oversight of a project solution, including requirement interpretation and allocation of requirements to technical components. The candidate will define processes to support the implementation of requirements. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the technical solutions leverage industry best practices, designing security and excellence while minimizing the total cost of ownership. Candidate should be able to define internal and external customer IT infrastructure architecture needs and then design solutions to meet those needs to include: capacity planning, systems configuration and tuning, monitoring backups, and installations of hardware and software. Candidates will be required to work independently with little supervision and should be flexible to work and support IT Operations needs as requested.

Impact

• Define, maintain, and upgrade the overall security posture of the networks
• Perform security audits of events, overall health and implement changes to improve the overall program's security posture
• Manage and allocate network installation and engineering tasks, configure and maintain communications systems, familiarity with implementation of LAN and WAN equipment including firewalls, servers, workstations, routers, switches, hubs, storage devices, A/V equipment and equipment racks
• Ability to write and edit “build-to” and “as-built” documentation, as well as implementation and test plans for physical and logical installs of IT equipment
• Able to engage in technical system planning beyond the network, to include applications and systems that utilize the network being delivered
• Provides expert level analysis of voice, video, and/or data communications networks, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting, and upgrading operating systems and protocol suites
• Able to plan network layouts and configure systems to user environments
• May provide technical support and troubleshooting to users (Tier I, II, and III)
• May serve as a technical team and/or task leader, must be independent and self-motivated

Required Qualifications

• Experience allowing voice, video traffic across port-based firewall and NGFW
• Expertise/experience (more than 10) deploying Cisco, Palo Alto, or Juniper firewall Manager servers
• Experience in engineering and deploying multi firewall solutions
• Experience design, engineering, and deploying controlled interfaces (10 + years)
• Experience design, engineering, and deploying firewall vendor transitioning plans
• Experience design, engineering, and deploying firewall in a multicast network environment
• Experience IPSec site-to-site VPN utilizing PKI (CA)
• Experiences Remote access VPN
• 12 +years of experience configuring/maintaining Cisco ASA/Next Generation Firewall
• 10 + years of experience configuring, designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN/WAN devices. Thorough understanding of network routing concepts (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IP MPLS)
• Basic understanding of QoS concepts
• Experience with network monitoring technologies
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements or problems and convert them into technical solutions
• Ability to partner with systems administrators, storage administrators, and application developers to solve complex problems
• Complex problem management research and issue resolution
• Ability to mentor junior network engineers

Desired Qualifications

• Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting QoS in LAN or WAN devices
• Juniper, Palo Alto, or Cisco Next Generation Firewalls Certifications and hands on experience
• Experience design, engineering, and deploying Muli-Factor Authentication solution
• Experience design, engineering, and deploying Zero-Trust solutions

Additional Qualifications

• 15+ years of related Network Engineering experience
• Bachelor’s or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, OR equivalent 19 years job-related experience
• TS/SCI with Poly clearance
• Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills
• Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments
• Location: At Customer Site – near Tyson Corner

Benefits

• 401K with company match
• Comprehensive health and wellness packages
• Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
• Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
• Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
• Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays

Compensation

The likely salary range for this position is $182,750 - $247,250. Salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Employment Details

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA McLean

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

Equal Opportunity Employer / Individuals with Disabilities / Protected Veterans