Staff Network Engineer with Active Top Secret
- Fort Meade, MD
- Permanent
- Full-time
Design, maintain, and operate Wireless and Local Area Networks (LANs/WLAN) and Wide Area Networks
(WANs), using Infrastructure as Code and Ansible Automation Platform
Automate network changes on across various vendor platforms and Azure Cloud
Assist multifunctional team to help optimize and visualize network operations
Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information
Provide inputs to the design of the enterprise’s network and mission architecture
Evaluate network architectures across platforms to ensure alignment to cloud and network modernization
strategies, capabilities and requirement sets
Actively identify opportunities for improvement, including innovations aimed at improving the user
experience, improving efficiencies, and lowering sustainment costs
Enforce security best practices and guidelines, leveraging knowledge of security policies, network security,
and data securityBASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6-10 years of prior
relevant experience
Experience designing, deploying, and operating software defined networking solutions
Strong understanding of networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, proxies, routing
(L2/L3), firewalls and software defined networking
Experience implementing dual-stack networking to use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously
Experience developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC), utilizing continuous integration /
continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, and leveraging automation platforms such as Ansible or Azure
Functions
Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as NIST,
FedRAMP, and FISMA
Ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team, aided by strong written and verbal
communication skills
Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence
Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security + or CISSPPowered by JazzHR