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Senior Network Systems Engineer

ClearanceJobs, Chantilly, Virginia, United States, 22021

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Senior Systems Engineer

As a Senior Systems Engineer, you will plan, design, and implement additions and changes to network hardware, infrastructure server environments, and operating systems. You will provide direct support in the day-to-day operations of network hardware and operating systems while maintaining the reliability and robustness of the underlying infrastructure that supports the forensic and investigative ecosystem across multi-enclave environments. Job Responsibilities: Supervise, coordinate, design, develop and implement additions and changes to network hardware, infrastructure server environments, and operating systems. Provide direct support in day-to-day operations of network hardware and operating systems. Troubleshoot at both physical and logical network levels. Participate in planning, design, technical review and implementation for new network infrastructure. Perform systems management and integration functions across multi-enclave environments. Maintain network infrastructure standards including communication protocols such as TCP/IP. Diagnose and resolve complex communication problems. Ensure systems are current with approved patches and assist with certification and accreditation tasks. Develop strategy for client/server systems and design infrastructure to support that strategy. Advise on selection of technological purchases for processing, data storage, data access, and applications development. Participate in Program Increments (PIs) and Agile Release Train (ART) activities. Support DevSecOps practices and tools implementation. Required Qualifications: Bachelor's degree or master's degree with 8 years of experience OR Associate degree with 11 years of experience OR High School/Diploma with 14 years of experience, Active Top Secret (TS) clearance with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) and ability to obtain a Counterintelligence (CI) Polygraph. US Citizenship is required. Experience with SAFe Agile framework and SAFe Methodologies. Understanding of forensic and investigative system requirements. Demonstrated experience designing and implementing secure systems in government environments. Advance proficiency with: Virtualization technologies (vSphere, VXRail, Proxmox, Nutanix) Network administration and security Cloud platforms (AWS GovCloud, SC2S, C2S) Linux and Windows operating systems Windows Active Directory Network hardware (Cisco, Arista, SonicWall) Containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) Security accreditation processes Desired Qualifications: Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph. Hybrid cloud and on-premises infrastructure. DevSecOps practices and tools. Elasticsearch, Splunk, and other data platforms. Python and C# for automation and scripting. Database technologies (SQL, MySQL, PostgreSQL). LDAP/OpenLDAP, ADFS, Keycloak. Tunneling protocols (GRE, IPSec, SSH, SSL).