Senior Telecommunications Network Engineer - Lab & AI-Ready

Booz Allen Hamilton; Corridor North (MD); On-site; USD 78,000 - 176,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health benefits

Paid time off

Tuition assistance

Employee development

Job summary

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Telecommunications Network Engineer to design, build, and harden next-generation telecom infrastructure. You will work with Layer 2/3 networking, Linux server administration, virtualization, and containerized workloads in a fast-paced lab environment.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in network engineering, strong timing and QoS skills, and the ability to document procedures while meeting tight deadlines on demos and government reviews.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of network engineering experience in telecoms, defense, or enterprise environments.
• Strong Layer 2/3 design, VLANs, trunking, QoS, and ACLs
• Linux server administration incl. Ubuntu/RHEL, SSH hardening, log management
• Experience with virtualization/containers in lab or production settings

Responsibilities

• Build and manage lab network stack with GPU servers, switches, radio hardware, and supporting infra.
• Configure and validate precise timing using PTP IEEE 1588 with GPS/GNSS and SyncE.
• Design VLAN segmentation for management, control, user and timing traffic; apply QoS.
• Deploy IP networking for platform interfaces, including Kubernetes networks and backhaul.
• Stand up virtualized network functions and verify end-to-end connectivity in lab env.
• Operate containerized workloads on Kubernetes; validate inter-component connectivity.

Skills

Network engineering

Linux administration

Documentation

Troubleshooting

Team collaboration

Packet capture analysis

Security mindset

Education

Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or related field

Tools

VMware

Proxmox

KVM

Docker

Kubernetes

Ubuntu

RHEL

Wireshark

tcpdump

Job description

Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Telecommunications Network Engineer to design, build, and harden next-generation telecom infrastructure. You will work with Layer 2/3 networking, Linux server administration, virtualization, and containerized workloads in a fast-paced lab environment.

Ideal candidates bring 5+ years in network engineering, strong timing and QoS skills, and the ability to document procedures while meeting tight deadlines on demos and government reviews.