Network Communications Engineer - UAE Tech Refresh

Job Description

WHAT WE'RE DOING

Join the EADGE-T team and help modernize the program's technology while delivering new capabilities to the UAE customer. EADGE-T provides an integrated air and missile defense and air battle management capability that connects existing sensors, weapons, and emerging technologies.

The Technical Refresh effort will focus on hardware upgrades and foundational cybersecurity enhancements. This is an opportunity to help design and develop the updated baseline while working directly with an international customer.

THE WORK

The Network Communications Engineer will design, configure, secure, monitor, and troubleshoot complex, high-performance communication networks supporting mission-critical systems.

This role requires strong technical expertise across network architecture, integration, automation, cybersecurity, and performance optimization. You will help ensure the reliability, redundancy, security, and scalability of networks operating across multiple classification domains.

PLEASE NOTE

• This position may require travel to customer sites throughout the UAE.
• This position may occasionally support off-hours test events, including overnight and weekend activities.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Network Design & Architecture

• Support the Lead Network Architect in decomposing system-level requirements and developing functional, logical, and physical architectures for data center network solutions.
• Help develop infrastructure and network policies, including LAN/WAN firewall, network continuity, Quality of Service (QoS), IP addressing, encryption, AAA, and monitoring plans.

Implementation & Integration

• Install and configure routers, switches, firewalls, and specialized network infrastructure.
• Integrate network solutions with server infrastructure, mission systems, data links, and WAN environments while adhering to applicable DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs).

Performance Optimization

• Support capacity planning, latency analysis, and bandwidth optimization for high-throughput, low-latency applications.
• Implement traffic engineering techniques, including MPLS, segment routing, policing, and traffic shaping, to meet performance requirements.

Troubleshooting & Incident Management

• Perform root-cause analysis and resolve complex network faults, packet loss, routing loops, and authentication issues.
• Use tools such as Wireshark, Net Flow, and telemetry platforms to monitor performance and proactively address network issues.

Security & Compliance

• Apply Cyber System Security Plan guidance and Zero Trust networking principles while enforcing encryption, authentication, and integrity controls.
• Support NIST 800-53 controls, firewall rule implementation, zone-segmentation policies, and centralized security management tools.

Network Automation & Management

• Use tools such as Ansible, Python, and vendor-developed scripts to automate network configuration and deployment.
• Use SNMP, NETCONF, CLI commands, and shell scripting to support configuration backup, rollback, and recovery.

Network Monitoring

• Use commercial or open-source network monitoring tools such as Open Text NNMi, Nagios XI, Solar Winds, or OpenNMS.

WHO WE ARE

EADGE-T has a geographically dispersed project team that operates in an Agile Scrum environment.

Team members have the opportunity to work directly with an international customer and gain exposure to the technologies and processes supporting this upgrade.

Basic Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in Network Communications, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or Cyber Security
2+ years of hands on network engineering experience.

Certifications:

Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE (Routing & Switching or Data Center) or Juniper JNCIA (preferred)/JNCIP/JNCIE, Arista EOS, etc.).
CompTIA Network+, Security+
Knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4, VLAN tagging, RSTP, LAG, VTEP, BGP, OSPF, GRE, MPLS, TLS, IPsec, MACsec.
Familiarity with network hardware (Juniper (preferred), Cisco, Palo Alto, DELL, Arista)
Scripting/automation experience (Python, Power Shell, Ansible, Terraform).
Familiarity with network logging tools (Arc Sight, Splunk, other Syslog tools)
Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, IDS/IPS, VPNs, PKI, stateful/stateless firewall with ALG, and symmetric/asymmetric encryption methods, cryptographic hash functions and familiarity of NSA CSFC capabilities & algorithms
Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities; ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
Ability to obtain a US DoD Secret Clearance

Desired skills

Experience with Juniper EX, QFX, SRX, and MX products
Network Management:
Juniper Apstra, Mist, Ansible (configuration deployment), Syslog, NTPv4, NETConf, SNMPv2/v3
Virtual Hypervisor & Micro Services: VMWare VCF (understanding of vSwitch and vSAN, VM interfaces), K8 (understanding of Kubernetes and containers' network interfaces and ports)

Experience with high capacity fiber optics MMF and SM i.e. 10/25/40/100 Gbps data rates
Familiarity with Wireshark/PCAP and/or TCPDUMP/LIBPCAP packet…