Network Specialist ; Tech Specialist ; Charleston, SC

Position: Network Specialist 2 (Tech Specialist 2) - Charleston, SC
Overview About M.C. DeanM.C. Dean is Building Intelligence®. We design, build, operate, and maintain cyber-physical solutions for the nation’s most mission-critical facilities, secure environments, complex infrastructure, and global enterprises. With over 9,000 employees, our capabilities span electrical, electronic security, telecommunications, life safety, automation and controls, audiovisual, and IT systems. Headquarters in Tysons, Virginia, M.C. Dean delivers resilient, secure, and innovative power and technology solutions through engineering expertise and smart systems integration.

Why Join Us?

Our people are passionate about engineering innovation that improves lives and drives impactful change. Guided by our core values—agility, expertise, and trust—we foster a collaborative and forward-thinking work environment.  At M.C. Dean, we are committed to building the next generation of technical leaders in electrical, engineering, and cybersecurity industries.

We are seeking a Network Specialist 2 to join our Security and Electronic Systems (SES) business Unit. As part of (SES) Strategic Business Unit you will be part of a team that designs, engineers, integrates, operates and maintains electronic security services inclusive of intrusion detection, access control, biometric authentication, video surveillance, audio visual, it systems, perimeter defense and command and control systems for federal, local and commercial customers across high-growth markets.

Responsibilities Technical:

Survey Reports measurement results in actionable form to more senior personnel and management.

Conducts any surveys, inspections, tours, etc. of client sites, as required

Review existing network infrastructure designs and onsite conditions

Perform analysis of onsite LAN/WAN infrastructure including network utilization, performance issues including switching and routing, security issues / concerns, cabling infrastructure, COMSEC infrastructure, etc.

Design:

Develop high level network architectures including OV-1 and OV-2

Develop requirements documentation and perform assessments of alternatives for multiple vendors

Perform network modeling of proposed designs prior to final architecture and product selections. Determine optimal architectures to include switching architectures, routing protocols, redundancy architectures, secure designs (DMZ, firewalls, IDS/IPS, etc.)Perform testing and assessments of different network hardware and software, both traditional hardware and virtualized appliances.  Perform hardware selection for switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers.  Install, configure, and maintain network architectures including network equipment, and devices.

Determine security architectures including applying vendor and client hardening guides, implement firewall rules and QoS profiles, determine required network services (RADIUS, 802.1x, timing / NTP, etc)
Develop automation scripts for deploying zero touch network architectures

Stay abreast of current networking technologies including NAAS, SDWAN, Post Quantum cryptography, etc.

Work closely with the field engineers to simulate expected system level performance and provide quick feedback on potential improvement

Assist senior network engineers to identify and resolve network security issues.

Develop network designs for each SLA classification.

Originates design documents for small projects and in support of large programs

Assists Senior Engineers in preparation of Designs, including:
Narrative Design Documents, Systems and Subsystem Designs (CAD / Panels / Layouts / Wiring / Hardware / Communications)
Preparation of Specifications, Perform QA/QC and technical reviews of designs.

Comment Resolution Testing & Commission Review / Approval of test plans (Safety / Risk /…