Onsite DoD Network Operations Watch Officer (Secret)

Piper Companies; Camp Springs (MD); On-site; USD 55,000 - 70,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401k Plan

PTO

Holidays

Sick Leave

Job summary

Piper Companies seeks an experienced Network Operations Watch Officer for a mission-critical U.S. Air Force program at Joint Base Andrews, MD. This fully onsite role requires an active Secret clearance and adherence to a Sunday–Thursday, 6am–2:30pm EST shift.

The incumbent will monitor classified and unclassified networks, perform incident management, and coordinate with CFP and partners using Cisco Prime, SolarWinds, and SCOM. DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree with 2+ years of relevant experience.
• 2+ years hands-on experience with enterprise routers and switches.
• Hands-on NX-OS administration for Cisco Nexus (5K/7K/9K) including VLANs, trunking, STP, LACP/vPC, OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, VRF, and subnetting.
• Experience with TACLANE encryption devices, including SKL key loading and EKMS/KMI procedures.
• Experience with Cisco Prime or similar network monitoring tools (SolarWinds, SCOM).
• Ability to support a 24/7 network operations environment.
• Active Secret clearance and DoD 8570 IAT Level II (CompTIA Security+) certification.
• Willingness to work fully onsite at Andrews AFB, MD on a Sunday-Thursday shift.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and maintain enterprise WAN infrastructure across classified and unclassified networks.
• Identify, triage, and troubleshoot network alerts, connectivity issues, outages, and events.
• Perform incident management, service restoration, and escalate to Tier 3 engineering teams.
• Conduct advanced log analysis to support proactive threat identification and remediation.
• Utilize monitoring tools (Cisco Prime, SolarWinds, SCOM) to maintain network availability.
• Coordinate incident response with CFP, mission partners, technicians, and carriers.
• Provide proactive problem management, technical documentation, and customer reporting.

Skills

Enterprise networking

Network security

Cisco NX-OS

TACLANE (KG-175)

Clearance readiness

24/7 operations support

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

Cisco Prime

SolarWinds

SCOM

Job description

Piper Companies seeks an experienced Network Operations Watch Officer for a mission-critical U.S. Air Force program at Joint Base Andrews, MD. This fully onsite role requires an active Secret clearance and adherence to a Sunday–Thursday, 6am–2:30pm EST shift.

The incumbent will monitor classified and unclassified networks, perform incident management, and coordinate with CFP and partners using Cisco Prime, SolarWinds, and SCOM. DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification is required.