Senior Wireless Architect - Pentagon Aruba, Security-Cleared

Thinktekllc; Virginia; On-site; USD 170,000 - 178,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

EOE

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

ThinkTek LLC is seeking a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon in the National Capital Region. The role centers on a large enterprise Aruba wireless environment, AP life-cycle replacement, and translating mission requirements into workable architectures.

The candidate will bring hands-on Aruba experience, routing and switching depth, and security-conscious change management to ensure reliable, compliant wireless operations in a secure facility environment.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• 8+ years of network engineering experience, including 5+ years in enterprise wireless.
• Hands-on ArubaOS mobility controllers, access points, ClearPass, and AirWave or Aruba Central.
• Strong routing and switching skills: VLANs, trunking, spanning tree, link aggregation, and subnetting.
• Advanced troubleshooting across wireless and wired stacks with packet analysis.
• Experience deploying 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

Top Secret clearance

8+ years network engineering

5+ years enterprise wireless

ArubaOS mobility controllers

ClearPass

AirWave

Aruba Central

routing and switching

packet-level analysis

Tools

ArubaOS

ClearPass

AirWave

Aruba Central

Job description

ThinkTek LLC is seeking a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon in the National Capital Region. The role centers on a large enterprise Aruba wireless environment, AP life-cycle replacement, and translating mission requirements into workable architectures.

The candidate will bring hands-on Aruba experience, routing and switching depth, and security-conscious change management to ensure reliable, compliant wireless operations in a secure facility environment.