Senior Network Engineer — Onsite with Secret Clearance

MITRE; McLean (VA); On-site; USD 118,000 - 177,000; Full time

Job summary

MITRE seeks a Senior Network Engineer to join the Enterprise and Tactical Networking Department. You will address complex networking challenges, focusing on enterprise and tactical environments, cybersecurity, and data analytics.

The role emphasizes collaboration and rigorous engineering practices across sponsor organizations. You will design and deploy secure, scalable networks, influence routing decisions with external feeds, and advance validation, testing, and monitoring of deployed

Qualifications

• Minimum 5 years of related experience; or 3 years with a Master’s; or PhD with relevant experience.
• Must be eligible to obtain and maintain a Secret U.S. Government-security clearance; U.S. citizen.
• On-site work four days per week.
• Experience in network design, SDN/NFV, and mission security assessments.

Responsibilities

• Define validated network designs ready for implementation.
• Configure and validate software-defined and virtual networks.
• Assess cybersecurity risk and mitigation strategies for designs.
• Design and enhance network data analytics and dashboards.
• Develop modeling, simulation, and test methodologies for networks.
• Integrate threat feeds into routing parameters to improve communications paths.
• Collaborate across LAN/WAN, data center, and tactical operations.

Skills

Strong communication

Analytical thinking

Team collaboration

Programming languages (Go, C++, Python

CI/CD

Automation tooling

Scripting (PowerShell, Bash)

Git

Education

Master’s degree in CS/EE/CE/Data Science or related

Tools

Go

C++

Python

JavaScript

Git

CI/CD

Ansible

Terraform

PowerShell

Bash

Job description

MITRE seeks a Senior Network Engineer to join the Enterprise and Tactical Networking Department. You will address complex networking challenges, focusing on enterprise and tactical environments, cybersecurity, and data analytics.

The role emphasizes collaboration and rigorous engineering practices across sponsor organizations. You will design and deploy secure, scalable networks, influence routing decisions with external feeds, and advance validation, testing, and monitoring of deployed