Network Engineer (Remote)

Network Engineer

The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA’s enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery analysis and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree with 8+ years of experience; additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Must have an active DoD IAT Level II (Security+ ) certification or equivalent prior to start.
• Proficiency in at least one of: enterprise-class firewall technologies, proxies, load balancers, and other IP/transport specific management tools (EMS) and general practices. Expertise in IP technologies, i.e. Networking architectures and methodologies.
• This position requires extensive writing and the selected candidate MUST have superb writing skills.

Responsibilities:

• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.
• Design classified and unclassified wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
• Design classified and unclassified transport (circuit) connectivity support mission requirements.
• Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.
• Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.
• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.
• Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.
• Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
• Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated expertise in the design and consolidation of network and security environments across geographically dispersed sites
• Expert Knowledge of DoD security requirements for network environments.
• Proficiency in at least one of the following tools: PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, or Junos Space.

Clearance/Citizenship:

• Must hold an active Secret security clearance & be eligible for Top Secret.
• Must be US Citizen

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