Network Engineer SME
Leidos
- Chantilly, VA
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Develop technical solutions to issues that may be unclear and require deep technical knowledge
- Participating in the development of new network designs
- Assessing network management architecture and document the architecture
- Utilizing of various data sources to fully understand the issues and inform the solution,
- Possess strong skillsets in network monitoring tools and deep analysis of network data
- Evaluate network service requests and validate/triage unique inquiries
- Analyze existing and future network infrastructure and provide solutions requirements
- Network hardware and software testing, implementation, integration, and management
- Create and update network infrastructure documentation
- Support network refresh efforts
- Network troubleshooting (Tier-3 and Tier-4 level support)
- Active TS/SCI with Polygraph
- Ability to satisfy a government-administered high-risk role screening
- Bachelor’s degree and 15+ years of experience; additional experience in lieu of degree.
- Experience with configuring and troubleshooting Cisco routers, switches and firewalls (ISR/ASR series, Cat-93xx, 38xx, etc, and ASAs/Nex-Gen)
- Knowledge of configuring Juniper firewalls (SRX) to establish security boundary protection via firewall policies
- Experience with configuring and troubleshooting IPSec VPN tunnels (site-to-site) on Cisco and/or Juniper platforms
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 hands-on configuration experience, with emphasis on dynamic routing protocols such as OSPF and BGP
- Knowledge of configuring VLANs, 802.1q trunking, Rapid Spanning-tree (RSTP), BPDU guard
- Familiarity of Cloud-based environments and vendors such as AWS (EC2, VPC), Azure (Resource groups), and/or Google (VPC networks)
- Familiarity of data center infrastructure and technologies using and experience with Cisco Catalyst and Nexus switches
- Hands on experience with the implementation and use of network monitoring, fault management and performance analysis tools such as SYSLOG, SNMP, Solarwinds, etc.
- Experience with network security concepts, best practices and technologies including, but not limited to, SSH, IPSec, TACACS, ISE, firewall policies and 802.1x
- Knowledge of programming COMSEC devices (ie. KG-175A/G/F)
- Experience with engineering/architecting secured enterprise telecommunication solutions
- Experience providing detailed engineering and technical leadership to engineering staff involving multiple, complex and interrelated project tasks
- Experience effectively communicating at senior levels within a customer organization
- CCNA or JNCIA certification
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field
- Experience supporting high performance computing environments.
- Experience with IPS/IDS systems to include network impacts.
- Possess excellent written and oral communication skills