Network Engineer - TS/SCI w/ Poly

General Dynamics IT; United States; On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; 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

General Dynamics IT in Herndon, VA is seeking a Network Engineer to design and deliver secure IT infrastructure solutions for customer sites. The role requires extensive experience with LAN/WAN, firewalls, and network devices.

You will provide technical oversight, define implementation plans, and ensure security and cost efficiency while collaborating with systems admins, storage teams, and developers. An active TS/SCI with Poly is required.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI with Poly clearance required.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field, or 14 years of related experience.
• 10+ years of network engineering experience.
• Experience configuring Cisco ASA/NGFW and LAN/WAN devices.
• US citizenship required.
• Ability to design and implement secure network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design technical solutions for complex problems.
• Provide technical oversight of project solutions.
• Define processes to support implementation of requirements.
• Ensure security posture and optimize total cost of ownership.
• Mentor junior network engineers.
• Plan capacity, configure systems, monitor backups, and install hardware/software.
• Coordinate with systems administrators, storage, and application developers.

Skills

Cisco ASA Firewall

LAN/WAN

Network Security

Routing Protocols

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering or related field

Job description

Type of Requisition: Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph

Clearance Level Must Be Able 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

Certifications: None

Experience: 10 + years of related experience

US Citizenship Required: Yes

Job Description:

The Network Engineer 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.

HOW A NETWORK ENGINEER WILL MAKE AN IMPACT

• Define, maintain, and upgrade the overall security posture of the networks
• Will perform security audits of events, overall health and implement changes to improve the overall programs 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 configures systems to user environments
• May provide technical support and troubleshooting to users. (Tier I, II, and III)

WHAT YOU'LL NEED TO SUCCEED:

The position requires an active TS/SCI with Poly clearance

Bachelor's or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, OR equivalent 14 years job-related experience

10+ years of related Network Engineering experience

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)

Experience design, engineering, and deploying controlled interfaces (10 + years)

Expertise/experience (more than 10) deploying Cisco, Palo Alto, or Juniper firewall Manager servers

Experience allowing voice, video traffic across port-based firewall and NGFW

Experience in engineering and deploying multi firewall solutions

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

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

Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills

Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments

Location: At Customer Site - Herndon area

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

GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:

• 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

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