Onsite Mission-Critical Network Lead for DoD/Top Secret

IGNITE; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Ignite is seeking a driven Network Lead to join our team supporting the U.S. Army on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL.

This onsite role directs secure voice, data, and video network engineering across Enterprise and classified networks, ensuring high availability and robust security for multiple facilities. The Network Lead will guide engineers, oversee complex designs, coordinate implementations, maintain security and configuration control, and respond to outages or degraded performance.

Qualifications

• Ten or more years of relevant network-engineering experience at the Senior/Lead level.
• Experience installing, configuring, supporting, securing, monitoring, and maintaining LAN, WAN, intranet, internet, voice, video, and other data-communications systems.
• Experience supervising or mentoring network personnel and leading complex, multi-technology designs and integrations.
• Experience translating business and mission requirements into telecommunications architectures and implementation plans.
• Advanced knowledge of routing, switching, firewalls, IDS/IPS, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, network access control, load balancing, cabling/fiber, network operating systems, and management platforms.
• Knowledge of INFOSEC/COMSEC, classified and unclassified network separation, access control, STIGs, vulnerability remediation, and incident coordination.
• Ability to provide on-site support and lead after-hours restoration of mission-critical network services.
• CompTIA Security+ is required.

Responsibilities

• Lead network planning, engineering, implementation, administration, monitoring, testing, and sustainment.
• Design and optimize firewalls, IDS/IPS, Active Directory-related network services, switches, routers, hubs, bridges, cabling, fiber, and network operating systems.
• Diagnose and resolve LAN, WAN, voice, video, and interconnected-network issues across classified and unclassified environments.
• Maintain secure 24/7 network availability and lead outage, degradation, and cybersecurity incident response.
• Evaluate new technologies and recommend secure, interoperable, supportable solutions.
• Develop and maintain network schematics, SOPs, configurations, status accounting, and audit evidence.
• Analyze load balancing, traffic, capacity, performance, vulnerabilities, and failure trends; implement approved improvements.
• Control and coordinate approved network changes with the CIO, Government leads, cybersecurity personnel, and affected customers.
• Lead, mentor, and quality-check network administrators, engineers, and support technicians.

Skills

Network planning

LAN/WAN engineering

Firewalls/IDS/IPS

Routing & switching

DNS/DHCP/IPAM

Security best practices

DoD 8140/DCWF

CompTIA Security+

Education

MA/MS

BA/BS with 12+ years experience

Tools

Cisco Catalyst Center

ISE

Secure Firewall Management Center

Secure Network Analytics

Web Appliance

Unified communications

Meeting/video systems

F5 BIG-IP/BIG-IQ

Infoblox

SolarWinds

VMware networking

Job description

Ignite is seeking a driven Network Lead to join our team supporting the U.S. Army on Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, AL.

This onsite role directs secure voice, data, and video network engineering across Enterprise and classified networks, ensuring high availability and robust security for multiple facilities. The Network Lead will guide engineers, oversee complex designs, coordinate implementations, maintain security and configuration control, and respond to outages or degraded performance.