Network Engineer Skill Level 3

An ACTIVE security clearance is required: TS/SCI with Polygraph :

Description:
Team member who provides configuration and maintenance services on the Network Administration team including technical services to the Network Administrators and System Administrators, monitoring and maintaining the current infrastructure, improving system performance, and automating system administration.

The Level 3 Network Engineer shall possess the following capabilities:

• Conducts inventories as directed (e.g., semiannually/annually)

• Configure and maintain organization's network diagrams and accreditations.

• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.

• Oversee the deployment and sustainment to all network equipment.

• Establishes procedures to ensure strict control of each item of keying material whenever the material is turned over from one shift to another or from one individual to another

• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools

• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec) IP Encryption and Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate

• Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design.

• Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize down time.

• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components

• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.

• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies

• Design, integrate, test and deploy Network solutions

• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow

• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats,

• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers.

• Applies Network Acceleration techniques such as Riverbed.

• Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems.

• Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators

Qualifications: Ten (10) years' experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required. Bachelor's degree in engineering or Information Systems Management from an accredited college or university is required. Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor's degree.

Domain Area(s) Specialized Requirements: :Five (5) years of demonstrated experience is required in the domain items described below:

• Wireless (WiMAX/WiFiber/Wireless LAN/Ethernet Bridges)

• HAIPE encryption and Tandberg Teleconferencing equipment.

• Experience configuring and maintaining at least three (3) high end Cisco products such as: CISCO 1004 ASR; Cisco 1006 ASR; Cisco 7600 routers; Cisco 6500 switches; Cisco 3900 routers; Cisco 3800 routers Cisco 3700 switches; Cisco 3800 switches; Cisco 3900 switches; Cisco call manager 4.1 or higher, Cisco Unity

• (Microwave, Millimeter wave, Optical, Troposcatter)and WAN Communications such as SATCOM, and VSAT

• Monitoring Network management and performance monitoring tools such as: Cisco Prime WhatsUpGold, HPNA, NetCollector, and NetPlanner.