Staff Network Engineer with Active Top Secret

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:  Design, maintain, and operate Wireless and Local Area Networks (LANs/WLAN) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), using Infrastructure as Code and Ansible Automation Platform  Automate network changes on across various vendor platforms and Azure Cloud  Assist multifunctional team to help optimize and visualize network operations  Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information  Provide inputs to the design of the enterprise’s network and mission architecture  Evaluate network architectures across platforms to ensure alignment to cloud and network modernization strategies, capabilities and requirement sets  Actively identify opportunities for improvement, including innovations aimed at improving the user experience, improving efficiencies, and lowering sustainment costs  Enforce security best practices and guidelines, leveraging knowledge of security policies, network security, and data security

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:  Bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or master’s degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience  Experience designing, deploying, and operating software defined networking solutions  Strong understanding of networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, proxies, routing (L2/L3), firewalls and software defined networking  Experience implementing dual-stack networking to use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously  Experience developing and deploying Infrastructure as Code (IaC), utilizing continuous integration / continuous deployment (CI/CD) tools, and leveraging automation platforms such as Ansible or Azure Functions  Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as NIST, FedRAMP, and FISMA  Ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team, aided by strong written and verbal communication skills  Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence  Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security + or CISSP