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U.S. Department of Defense

Network System Engineer - Entry to Expert Level MD GA TX

U.S. Department of Defense, Fort George Meade, Maryland, United States

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The National Security Agency is seeking results driven individuals that strive for excellence, enjoy the challenges of a fast paced environment and the desire to make a difference. We are looking for talented networking professionals to design, develop, deploy, sustain and monitor state‑of‑the‑art network solutions (WAN, CAN, LAN, DCN and Satellite communications networks) that are deployed across NSA worldwide.

Duties Network Professionals are hired into positions directly supporting a technical mission office. We are hiring networking professionals with education and/or experience in several of the following areas:

Multi‑vendor infrastructure platforms (i.e., Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Arista)

Network encryption devices and WAN accelerators

Multi‑vendor Layer 3 routing protocols (i.e., BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IGRP, HSRP, VRRP)

Virtual Private Networking (i.e., MPLS, GRE, L2VPN, EVPN, Pseudowire, IPsec, MACSEC)

Data center architectures and converged networks

Current networking trends, including commercial implementations of Software Defined Networks (SDN) for both Data Center Network and WAN applications

Load balancing and Application Delivery Controller technologies and implementations

WAN architectures (i.e., Carrier Ethernet, Optical Fabrics (OTN), SONET)

Network monitoring tools (i.e., NetFlow Tracker, HP Network Node Manager, Cisco LMS, Cisco Call Manager, Wireshark, and Splunk)

Network Modeling (RiverBed/OPNet, NetSim)

Network Boundary (Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco FIREPOWER), IPSEC/SSL VPN Concentrators)

Cross Domain Solutions (SafeNet MDeX System, OWL Cyber Defense Cross Domain Solutions)

Technical certifications (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, SEC+)

Requirements

Employment is contingent upon successful completion of a security background investigation and polygraph.

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