Job Summary:
SMX is seeking a Senior Network Engineer for the Pacific region—a critical leadership role supporting DoD medical facilities across the Pacific. This position is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining highly complex LAN/WLAN/WAN network infrastructures that are vital to military healthcare operations.
Responsibilities:
• Support the medical mission of the DoD by ensuring highly complex and technical infrastructure requirements are addressed across the Pacific region
• Identify and resolve complex LAN/WLAN/WAN network problems and issues using advanced network management tools and diagnostic techniques
• Provide high-level installation, configuration, documentation, management, and troubleshooting of LAN/WLAN/WAN communication equipment for all DHA networked facilities within the Pacific region
• Serve as the regional point of contact for network issues, configuration management, communications interconnection, addressing, multi-protocol routing, and network management
• Advice and consult with government staff, agencies, and contractor representatives on LAN/WLAN/WAN design, network implementation, deployment, and management to ensure optimal performance and support of the MHS mission
• Interface with and lead Network Specialists and coordinate with internal and external organizations to resolve LAN/WLAN/WAN issues
• Resolve technical issues associated with network and routing protocols at all levels of the OSI model using diagnostic and network administration tools such as Orion SolarWinds, ARMIS, and Ansible
• Research and analyze network-level problems to develop effective solutions that maintain system performance, security, and compliance with DoD standards
Qualifications:
Required:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Engineering, or related technical discipline with five (5) years of directly related experience; OR Successful completion of a certified Technical or Vocational School with ten (10) years of directly related experience gained through progressively higher levels of complexity
• DOD 8570 IAM III Certified Information Systems Security Professional CISSP
• Cisco Certified Network Professional CCNP
• Experience with DoD Health Care Information Systems is required
• Expertise in Windows networks, Cisco Systems, and Orion SolarWinds
• Mastery of networking protocols and technologies, including TCP/IP, XDM, HTTP, HTTPS, SMTP, SNMP, DNS, DHCP, RSTP, VRRP, Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND), EIGRP, BGP, OSPF, Point to Point Protocol (PPP), High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC), V35, and RS-449
• Clear understanding of IEEE communications and Internet standards: 8021d, 8021q, 8021w, 8023, 8025, 80210, 80211, 8023u, 8032, and 8023z
• Demonstrated understanding and direct experience with synchronous and asynchronous communications, Ethernet, Fast Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet, FDDI, ATM, and other communications mediums used by the DoD and DHA
• Experience with Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR), cable testers, network sniffers, and EIA/TIA cable standards and specifications
• Mastery-level experience in routed, switched, and shared LAN environments operating current supported versions of Microsoft OS, Windows Active Directory, UNIX, and OpenVMS
• Expertise with routers, switches, terminal servers, and various local and long-haul WAN connectivity solutions
Preferred:
• Experience working with DHA
• Experience with Zero Trust Architectures and Methodologies
Company:
SMX is a provider of information technology (IT), services, and advanced engineering with a focus on Cloud Solutions. Founded in 1995, the company is headquartered in Hollywood, USA, with a team of 1001-5000 employees. The company is currently Late Stage.