Network Operations Center; NOC Manager​/Lead - Secret or TS Clearance

Network Operations Center (NOC) Manager / Lead

Location: Mark Center, Alexandria, VA / Arlington, VA / Crystal City, VA / Hybrid 3-days onsite
Clearance Required: Secret or Top-Secret
Salary Range: $125K - $165K
Final date to receive applications: May 31, 2026

IBSS is seeking a highly skilled NOC Lead to oversee the comprehensive management, optimization, and security of a global enterprise network infrastructure for a DoD customer. This critical role involves ensuring the reliability, performance, and resilience of complex networking environments, including SD‑WAN, campus LAN, Aruba wireless systems, Palo Alto firewalls, and cloud networking fabrics. The successful candidate will lead a team responsible for advanced diagnostics and lifecycle management while strictly adhering to DoD Zero Trust strategies, NIST SP 800‑53, and DoDI 8510.01 (RMF) standards.

This position requires a proactive leader who can maintain 99.9% network availability and drive automation to support the organization's mission.

• Lead a team of NOC engineers and technicians, providing guidance, training, and mentorship to ensure optimal performance and development.
• Oversee daily operations of the NOC team, including scheduling, task allocation, and performance management.
• Ensure the continuous monitoring of network devices, systems, and applications to detect issues proactively and respond to critical events.
• Lead the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of NOC processes, including monitoring, event management, incident response, and change management.
• Manage and optimize the SD‑WAN environment, including policy configuration, link health monitoring, and traffic optimization to ensure resilient connectivity between global sites.
• Provide full lifecycle management of LAN infrastructure, including advanced switch configuration, VLAN segmentation, and access control enforcement to support Zero Trust principles.
• Lead cloud networking services across public, private, and hybrid environments, implementing secure routing, encrypted tunnels, and micro‑segmentation.
• Monitor network health and capacity continuously using real‑time telemetry, Net Flow, and path analytics to identify bottlenecks before they impact mission operations.
• Coordinate enterprise‑wide changes using automation pipelines with rollback validation to minimize risk and operational overhead.
• Lead incident response efforts for critical network issues, ensuring Priority 1 incidents are resolved within 4 hours and followed by detailed root cause analysis reports.
• Maintain accurate configuration documentation, topology diagrams, and firewall inventories, ensuring updates are completed within 5 business days of network changes.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
• 5+ years of experience in a NOC environment, with at least 1 year in a lead or supervisory role.
• 5+ years in network operations, infrastructure operations, or site reliability roles with significant experience running and building a NOC, operations center, or equivalent 24/7 monitoring function. You’ve built shift models, managed MSP relationships, and know how to turn a collection of monitors into a high‑performing operational team. Ideally, you’ve done this at global scale.
• Deep experience with structured incident response processes — severity classification, escalation matrices, incident bridges, post‑incident reviews, and RCA workflows.
• Demonstrated expertise in wireless infrastructure, including administration of RF tuning and strong authentication.
• Strong knowledge of network management, monitoring, and security tools (e.g., SNMP, Net Flow, SIEM, ticketing systems).
• Strong background in managing firewalls, including compliance with STIG/NIST controls and integration with SIEM.
• Deep understanding of DoD cybersecurity frameworks, specifically DoD Zero Trust Strategy, DoDI 8510.01 (RMF), NIST SP 800‑53, and DoD STIGs.
• Must possess and maintain the necessary security clearances required to access DoD networks and systems.
• Ability to support…