Lead Network Engineer
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$ 104000 - 166000
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Job Description
Responsibilities
Peraton is seeking a self-driven and resourceful Senior Network Engineer to join our dynamic Network and Unified Communications Architecture team of network and UC engineers in Arlington VA.
Peraton has served as the prime contractor for this program since its inception in the 1980s. We provide high-level government leaders with reliable secure voice video and fax communications anytime anywhere in any environment in support of day-to-day operations. We support a secure worldwide high-performance communications network comprised of real-time interactive applications allowing complex national and worldwide communications. Peraton provides the O&M of the network infrastructure and its components. We provide integration for development of hardware and software solutions and engineering support for the delivery of system network software and security solutions.
As a Senior Network Engineer you will bring your years of experience and expertise to propel the team to success and will be a pivotal member of a team that drives work forward within the program. The work is hands-on and requires engineers that can work with limited guidance; that said the Senior NE will provide technical guidance to junior engineers. You will support the creation and review of network designs conduct hardware evaluations in a lab and with vendors. We are seeking a proactive candidate who will not shy away from writing a test plan or reading through vendors technical documents to solve a problem and write a resolution report.
The Senior Network Engineer is responsible for but not limited to:
- Create/modify network drawings author system engineering documents and plans.
- Support design test and pre-deployment readiness reviews.
- Support the network operations of the Production system.
- Provide the team with recommendations on modern engineering approaches and strategies to improve successful task order deployments.
- Develop implement and manage network engineering processes including configuration management and design standards to ensure contract compliance technological relevancy and sustainability.
- Perform capacity planning of the network by monitoring and analyzing network performance and availability.
- Proactively researches and evaluates tools and technologies as appropriate to the network environment while developing solutions to increase performance and lower the total cost of ownership.
Qualifications
Required Qualifications:
- An active/current TS/SCI Security Clearance is required.
- Bachelors degree in engineering (or similar technical field) and eight (8) years relevant experience; Masters degree and six (6) years of relevant experience; PhD with three (3) years of experience. 12 years of relevant experience in the above-cited duties may be substituted in lieu of a completed higher education degree.
- A current/valid IAT LVL III Certification (Security CE CCNP CCNP Security CISA CISSP GCED GCIH and CCSP).
- Experience with the design implementation and support of network infrastructure solutions for routing and switching of complex networks.
- Experience implementing and troubleshooting WAN topologies leveraging ethernet T-Carrier and Optical Carrier circuits.
- Experience and understanding of networking fundamentals such as network protocols and common services (e.g. DNS FTP SSH SNMP).
- Implementation and troubleshooting experience of networks using concepts/protocols such as BGP OSPF MPLS VPNs and emerging concepts such as Software Defined Networking.
- Prior experience supporting a Government and/or Department of Defense customer.
Desired Qualifications:
- An Engineering degree with a networking focus.
- Eight (8) total years of experience in the architecture/design development and implementation of Wide Area Network (WAN) architecture.
- Exceptional verbal written (including the development of CONOPS and procedural documentation) interpersonal and presentation skills.
- Experience using Python to automate routine network tasks.
- Understanding and experience with Software Defined Network (SDN) deployments.
- Juniper Enterprise Routing and Switching Professional (JNCIP-ENT).
- Advanced Network monitoring and log analysis tool experience with the ability to deploy and improve the current deployments of these systems.
- Experience working in a telecommunications carrier environment performing mission critical network implementations.
- Self-driven and resourceful in achieving goals independently as well as in cooperation with others.
- Experience with application of DoD IAVAs DISA STIGs and NIST security controls
Benefits:
Peraton offers enhanced benefits to employees working on this critical National Security program which include heavily subsidized employee benefits coverage for you and your dependents 25 days of PTO accrued annually up to a generous PTO cap and eligibility to participate in an attractive bonus plan.
Peraton Overview
Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the worlds leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider we deliver trusted highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land sea space air and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day our employees do the cant be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit to learn how were keeping people around the world safe and secure.
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EEO
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