Senior DoD Network Engineer - Onsite at Scott AFB

cyber; Maryland; On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid leave: 26 days + PTO increase

Extra leave for each year of service

Parental leave

Leave allowances for military/jury/bur

Job summary

GCyber is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to serve as the program's network design authority for a high-profile Air Force network program supporting a critical mission.

The role ensures network availability, security, and performance across multiple sites and classifications without hybrid or remote work, onsite at Scott AFB, IL. This is contingent on contract award and requires DoD clearances and CCNP expertise.

Qualifications

• Active DoD TOP SECRET clearance and enrollment in Continuous Vetting.
• CCNP certification.
• DoD 8140/8570 IAT Level II certification.
• BA/BS and 8+ years of network engineering experience, including 5+ years directly relevant.
• Expertise in routing, switching, firewall, VPN, VLAN, IPv4/IPv6, and encryption devices.
• Experience applying DISA STIGs and carrying out USCYBERCOM/DISA tasking orders.
• Hands-on with air-to-ground gateways, airborne communications, SATCOM transport, or TCP acceleration.

Responsibilities

• Provide network analysis and design services and evaluate new technologies.
• Test and document changes in lab before operation and produce guides.
• Serve as Tier 3+ escalation point for three gateway sites and connected platforms.
• Engineer and review configurations for routers, switches, firewalls, VLANs, VPNs, CIDR/VLSM, DNS, encryption devices.
• Configure fault tolerance and disaster recovery for servers and network devices.
• Write scripts to configure, monitor, and troubleshoot the network.

Skills

CCNP

TOP SECRET clearance

Continuous Vetting

Routing & Switching

VPN/Encryption

Firewall technologies

DISA STIGs

Air-to-ground gateways

Education

BA/BS in relevant field

Tools

SolarWinds

Splunk

Python for network automation

GitLab CI

EVE-NG / lab emulation

Job description

GCyber is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to serve as the program's network design authority for a high-profile Air Force network program supporting a critical mission.

The role ensures network availability, security, and performance across multiple sites and classifications without hybrid or remote work, onsite at Scott AFB, IL. This is contingent on contract award and requires DoD clearances and CCNP expertise.