Network Engineer

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Digital Consultants is currently hiring a Network Engineer to provide operational and integration support for a multi-vendor infrastructure including various networks systems and virtual training environment (VTE) vendors. This is an on-site requirement with flexible remote work based on project requirements.

Responsibilities

• Gathers information concerning the capabilities of Company products; investigates the technical capabilities of Company products and competing equipment and solutions; stays abreast of developments in hardware and software.
• Generates quantifiable requirements based on customer description system planning & design and ensures requirements are complied with through formal verification methods.
• Translates high-level product development strategies into network and system requirement specifications and works with other engineering disciplines to develop lower-level detailed implementation requirements.
• Establishes and coordinates the development of standards practices and procedures related to the overall network and system development.
• Design interfaces and combine network and system elements to work as a whole. Assesses performance using evaluation criteria and technical performance measures. Customer liaison and support for business development activities and understanding and shaping requirements.

Job Requirements:

• Work in a fast-paced environment alongside a team of highly specialized Engineers providing engineering and implementation action for integration modernization and new installations for partner nations and allies in the Southern & European Command areas of responsibilities.
• Ability to install network equipment cabling in complex data center environments.
• Provide operation and integration support for a multi-vendor infrastructure including various routers and switches vendor firewalls and vendor servers.
• Aid senior engineers and the team with routing and switching support with an intermediate understanding of designing testing and implementing dynamic routing protocols (both IGP and EGP) a core understanding of layer two technologies and concepts and familiarity with any of the major vendor CLI (Cisco IoS JunOS PanOS) environments.
• Ability to configure install and manage routers switches firewalls intrusion detection systems virtual local area networks (VLANs) multi-protocol label switching (MPLS) IP routing protocols (OSPF BGP EIGRP) IP multicast and quality of service (QoS) under the direction and guidance of senior engineers and network architects.
• Ensure proper routing protocols are being applied to optimize the end-to-end network performance from the Local Area Network (LAN) through a Wide Area Network (WAN) to a Campus Area Network (CAN) to a Storage Area Network (SAN) or data center.
• Assist the customer with identifying derived design objectives technical specifications performance requirements and interoperability specifications to ensure the system design meets stakeholder end-to-end requirements.
• Document networks system changes and all required checklists within the configuration baseline.

• Education: High School with 9 years (or commensurate experience)
• Clearance: Secret
• Certification: Current DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification (SecurityCE CCNA Security CySA CASP etc.)
• Must have a valid US Passport and be prepared for international travel up to 40% at customer locations in Eastern Europe Africa Southeast Asia and South America..
• Must be fluent in Spanish both conversational and written.
• Proficiency with network diagramming and productivity tools (such as Visio Lucid and AutoCAD) is necessary.
• Entry-level experience with Cyber Network Defense (CND) Cybersecurity Operations or current CCNA Level Certification.
• Knowledge of multi-area OSPF EIGRP BGP and MPLS environments
• Experience setting up IPSec VPNs GRE Tunnels and DMVPN architecture.
• Experience with L2 and L3 protocols over Campus/WAN networks.
• Experience with multitiered hub-and-spoke network design.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Relevant MS Degree and 4 Years; BS Degree and 6 years of relevant experience or HS Diploma 9 years of relevant experience in network design and implementation. Specific expertise education and training may be considered in place of a degree.
• A senior military background within Signal Communications or Information Technology MOSs will be highly desired.
• CCNA Security or CCNA CyberOps - Desired Qualifications in place of CCNA: JNCDA/JNCIA PCCET/PCNSE - CCNP Security or CCNP Service Provider (SPCORE)

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