Senior Wireless Engineer – Aruba & DoD Clearance

ThinkTek LLC; Virginia; 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 is seeking a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon. The role focuses on enterprise wireless using Aruba infrastructure, life-cycle replacements, and secure facility operations.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in network engineering, 5+ years in wireless, and hands-on Aruba experience, including ClearPass and AirWave. A TS clearance is required, with a strong background in routing, switching, and security compliance.

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.
• Demonstrated 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

Top Secret clearance

Network engineering

Wireless networking

Troubleshooting

Government customer liaison

Tools

ArubaOS mobility controllers

Aruba access points

ClearPass

AirWave

Aruba Central

Job description

ThinkTek LLC is seeking a Senior Wireless Network Engineer to support a DoD client at the Pentagon. The role focuses on enterprise wireless using Aruba infrastructure, life-cycle replacements, and secure facility operations.

The ideal candidate has 8+ years in network engineering, 5+ years in wireless, and hands-on Aruba experience, including ClearPass and AirWave. A TS clearance is required, with a strong background in routing, switching, and security compliance.