Network Engineering

Location:

Columbia, Maryland, United States of America – TS/SCI with Polygraph 317576

Job Category:
Information Technology
• Time Type:
Full time
• Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph
• Employee Type:
Regular
• Percentage of

Travel Required:

None

The Network Engineer provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading existing networks.

• The candidate will analyze designs, specifications, and related documents.
• Implement communications system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment.
• Analyze network characteristics, troubleshoot problems and recommend procurement of and/or modifications to network components.

• Designs solutions, integrates, configures, deploys, tests and provides support for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies.
• Optimizes end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Configures/optimizes network to connect to various front- and back‑end components.
• Coordinates with system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations with minimum down time.
• Facilitates implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault‑tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN/LAN design.
• Implements specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load‑balancing, VPNs, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.
• Minimizes network latency and maximizes data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
• Manages assigned tasks and provides guidance to junior Network Engineers.
• Validates new/existing dataflow and data formats.
• Coordinates with appropriate dataflow organizations and end‑customer recipients, follow‑on data repositories and tasking organizations and understands potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow.
• Designs, integrates, tests and deploys RF communications solutions.
• Leads large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale.
• Works with Systems Engineers and cross‑organizational teams to define requirements.
• Resolves complex network problems, operates network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators.
• Designs, implements, and evaluates security systems.
• Contributes to security planning, assessment, risk analysis, and risk management.
• Supports the Government in providing technical leadership to engineering teams.
• Recommends corporate solutions to resolve security requirements.
• Supports the Government in enforcement of design / implementation of trusted relationships among external systems and architectures.
• Ten (10) years experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a bachelor’s degree.
• Five (5) years experience with the following Network Tools;
  What’s Up Gold and Net Flow.
• Three years’ experience with DCID 6/3 and/or ICD 503, “Intelligence Community Information Technology Systems Security Risk Management, Certification and Accreditation”, dated 15 September 2008.
• Three years’ experience creating firewall rule sets from analysis of network traffic.
• Three years’ experience with component validation of security devices.
• Three years’ experience integrating boundary solutions into customer networks.
• Three years’ experience configuring switches, routers, and firewalls.
• Five (5) years’ demonstrated experience in Computer Network Operations, Protection Level (PL) 3 high/high solutions utilizing Layer 2 to Layer 7.

A culture of integrity.

At CACI, we place character and innovation at the center of everything we do. As a valued team member, you’ll be part of a high-performing group dedicated to our customer’s missions and driven by a higher purpose – to ensure the safety of our nation.

An environment of trust.

CACI values the unique contributions that every employee brings to our company and our customers – every day. You’ll have the autonomy to take the time you need…