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Lead Network Engineer
$89,700 - 162,150
Woodlawn Road, Fort Belvoir
$89,700 - 162,150
Requirements
Must:
We are looking for a candidate with a minimum of a Bachelor's degree in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (preferred) alongside 8-12 years of experience or a Master's degree with 6-10 years of experience (additional relevant experience may substitute for a degree). You need to hold a network certification that meets or exceeds CCNA (comparable vendor certification may be accepted upon review). An active DoD IAT Level II certification (i.e., Security+) or equivalent is required before starting. You must possess a current DoD Secret clearance and be capable of obtaining a Top Secret clearance.
We expect you to have experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g., Visio, PowerPoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to illustrate systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of IT applications and infrastructure. You should be experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues, analyzing data from site surveys, and creating or executing migration plans for circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Moreover, you should have significant exposure to common IT infrastructure networking, including LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPNs, Proxies, Routing (L2/L3), and Firewalls, and experience with two or more of the following vendor network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, or Fortinet.
You should demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing the corresponding technical documentation. Additionally, being able to work collaboratively as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues is essential. Excellent written and verbal communication skills are required, including the ability to draft SOPs and technical documentation, as well as the ability to communicate with executive leadership about significant matters for the organization or project.
Responsibilities
In this role, you will lead and coordinate Tier I–III network operations engineering personnel to ensure the effectiveness of network troubleshooting efforts. Overseeing real-time monitoring of global enterprise networks using DoD-approved tools (such as SolarWinds, NetOps, Splunk, ACAS) will be part of your duties. You will also develop and enforce operational procedures, incident response workflows, and escalation protocols, acting as the senior technical point of contact for significant outages, network events, or cybersecurity incidents.
Your responsibilities will include interfacing with mission partners, DISA, Joint Forces, and Combatant Commands on network status, issues, and operational impacts. We expect you to ensure that all network changes adhere to configuration management (CM) and DoD Change Advisory Board (CAB) procedures, as well as prepare and deliver operational briefs, after-action reports (AARs), and executive summaries to senior leadership.
Additionally, you will be responsible for planning and designing secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service. This includes designing secure wide area connectivity incorporating underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that meets performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements. You will provide secure access solutions utilizing wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and developing associated implementation and transition plans. Furthermore, integrating capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions will be key.
You will need to collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards while identifying legacy service paths (i.e., dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and developing strategies and designs for the future enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability. Supporting the development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks and collaborating with information assurance teams to ensure compliance with DoD standards to assist in providing accreditation artifacts will also be part of your role.
Description
Preferred qualifications include being a Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent, having demonstrable experience with enterprise network management tools such as SolarWinds, MECM, Core Light, BMC Helix ITSM (Remedy), or JIRA. Hands-on experience with WAN, LAN, SPPNs, DECCs, compute, storage, capability delivery platforms, telecommunications, and circuits are also beneficial. Expertise in the design and improvement of complex and geographically distributed enterprise networks, as well as a thorough understanding of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure, are highly desirable. Experience involving system hardening of network infrastructure, including DoD STIG implementation, is valued. Familiarity with reporting and business applications such as Power BI, SharePoint, or SQL is a plus. The pay range for this position is expected to be between $89,700.00 and $162,150.00, although this is a general guideline and not a guarantee of compensation or salary, as several factors may influence the final offer.
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