Pentagon Wireless Network Engineer (Aruba, TS)

ThinkTek; Virginia (MN); On-site; USD 170,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

PTO

Paid leave

Job summary

ThinkTek LLC seeks a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon in the National Capital Region. The role focuses on a facility-wide Aruba-based wireless environment, with life cycle replacement of access points and controllers, plus security policy design and compliance tasks.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Aruba experience, strong routing/switching skills, and proven ability to operate in secure facilities and complex environments.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years of network engineering experience, including 5+ years in enterprise wireless.
• Hands-on Aruba experience across ArubaOS mobility controllers, access points, ClearPass, and AirWave or Aruba Central.
• Routing and switching capability, including VLANs, trunking, spanning tree, link aggregation, and subnetting.
• Working knowledge of enterprise mobility architectures and the ability to match capabilities to new mission requirements.
• Advanced troubleshooting across the wireless and wired stack, including packet‑level analysis.
• Experience supporting large-scale infrastructure deployments in an operational environment.

Responsibilities

• Provide senior engineering support for Aruba wireless infrastructure, including mobility controllers and conductors, access points, and AirWave.
• Provide engineering oversight to installation crews replacing access points and cabling throughout the Pentagon.
• Plan and execute access point and controller life cycle replacement, including integration, cutover, and rollback.
• Support change management and authorized service interruption planning with Government operations staff.
• Serve as senior escalation for complex wireless faults, using packet capture, client session analysis, controller diagnostics, and targeted site surveys.
• Provide engineering expertise on ClearPass policy design, including 802.1X, EAP-TLS, certificate services, and role-based access enforcement.
• Assess emerging requirements and recommend wireless and mobility solution architectures to Government decision makers.
• Support cybersecurity compliance, including STIG guidance, vulnerability remediation, and configuration hardening recommendations.
• Produce configuration standards, network diagrams, integration and test plans, and as-built records.

Skills

Enterprise wireless

Routing & switching

Troubleshooting

Policy design

Tools

ArubaOS

ClearPass

AirWave

Aruba Central

Job description

ThinkTek LLC seeks a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon in the National Capital Region. The role focuses on a facility-wide Aruba-based wireless environment, with life cycle replacement of access points and controllers, plus security policy design and compliance tasks.

The ideal candidate has hands-on Aruba experience, strong routing/switching skills, and proven ability to operate in secure facilities and complex environments.