Network Engineer III
Job Category: Information Technology
Time Type: Full-time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Top Secret/SCI
Employee Type: Regular
Percentage of Travel Required: None
Type of Travel: 25%
Position Overview:
RISA has an exciting and challenging opportunity available for a Network Engineer supporting an Intelligence Community customer's wide-area (WAN), local-area (LAN) and campus-area (CAN) networks across multiple security domains.
Responsibilities:
Focus will be on Network Engineering, new project requirements, and the operation and sustainment of existing infrastructure. This position does require at least 25% travel.
- Coordination of system maintenance, monitoring, and installation of multiple WAN/LAN environments encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
- Assist with research and implementation of enterprise system-wide network solutions/capabilities/enhancements to support customer business/mission goals and objectives.
- Troubleshoot and resolve network media and components.
- Evaluate and monitor the health and performance of the network, including hardware and management software.
- Develop and maintain a road map for capabilities, operations, and technologies.
- Assist with the development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation of all network configuration upgrades, additions, or revisions for customer approval before implementation.
- Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives.
- Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance the capacity, performance, and reliability of the network.
- Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization, and industry best practices.
- Follows all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with all Government policies.
- Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.
- Perform site surveys for new installations and technology refresh.
- Installs, maintains, and troubleshoots satellite communications equipment.
- Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.
Qualifications:
- Security Clearance: active TS/SCI
- 8+ years related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques
- 4+ years' experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high paced diverse environment
- Understanding and experience with the DoD Architecture Framework and other key DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions
- Experience with Juniper, switches, routers, and firewalls. (MX, EX, SRX devices) Cryptographic devices (KG-175G/X, KG-245A/X)
- Experience with Network analysis tools (HP/Microfocus Network Automation and Network Node Manager, Juniper Secure Analytics, Infoblox, Riverbed.)
- Experience with Juniper firewall/VPN equipment (SRX series)
- Experience with supporting IP services to connect to NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS (IPv4, VPN, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc)
- Experience with OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP/LDP L2/3VPNs, VRFs, IKE/IPSec, GRE tunnels, MTU, FTP, Import/Export policies.
- Certifications: IAT II
Desired Qualifications:
- Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
- JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, CISCO CCNP, CCVP, CCNA or CCDP (or equivalent)
- ITIL v3 Foundations
- ISC2 CISSP
- CompTIA Security +
Work Environment:
Professional Office Environment: Must be able to sit at a desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time.
Physical Demands:
- While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.
- Must be able to communicate regularly via telephone and verbally present information to employees, customers, and outside vendors.
Expected Hours of Work:
- 40 hours per week based on the customer's core operating hours.
About RISA:
In this time of rapid change, as technologies expand at lightning speed, RISA seeks to remain at the forefront - applying them in unique ways to address our customers' challenges and providing our employees with engaging career opportunities. We seek professionals excited by a challenge and focused on assisting our customers to reach their goals. At RISA, our success comes from the talent and commitment of our employees. As a team, we share the challenges and rewards of providing valuable services to our customers. Come along for the journey and be part of our growth and success.
RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
