Onsite Network Operations Watch Officer (Secret)

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

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k Plan, PT

Job summary

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks an experienced Network Operations Watch Officer to support a U.S. Air Force program at Joint Base Andrews, MD.

This is a fully onsite role requiring an active Secret clearance and adherence to a Sunday-Thursday, 6am-2:30pm EST shift. You will monitor classified (SIPRNet) and unclassified (NIPRNet) networks, perform incident management, log analysis, and coordinate with CFP and partners.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 2+ years of relevant experience (additional experience may substitute for degree).
• 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, subnetting.
• Experience with TACLANE (KG-175): encryption device maintenance, zeroization, SKL key loading, EKMS/KMI.
• Experience with Cisco Prime or similar network monitoring platforms (SolarWinds, SCOM).
• Ability to support a 24/7 network operations environment.
• Active Secret clearance and DoD 8570 IAT Level II (CompTIA Sec+) certification.
• Willingness to work fully onsite at Andrews AFB, MD, per a Sunday-Thursday 6am-2:30pm EST shift.
• Preferred: CCENT or CCNA; experience with ITSM tools like BMC Remedy; military CFP environments.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Enterprise networking

Cisco NX-OS

Network security

Log analysis

Incident management

24/7 operations

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Secret clearance

Education

Bachelor's degree in a technical field

Tools

Cisco Prime

SolarWinds

SCOM

BMC Remedy

Job description

Zachary Piper Solutions seeks an experienced Network Operations Watch Officer to support a U.S. Air Force program at Joint Base Andrews, MD.

This is a fully onsite role requiring an active Secret clearance and adherence to a Sunday-Thursday, 6am-2:30pm EST shift. You will monitor classified (SIPRNet) and unclassified (NIPRNet) networks, perform incident management, log analysis, and coordinate with CFP and partners.