Senior Network Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Network Engineer 3 with Security Clearance
Your Main Objective:
Aperio Global i seeking a Network Engineer to provide network and systems administrator support to the Defensive Network Operations (DNO) program for the development an maintenance of the Innovation and Training Center fo mission customers. The DNO program provides trained and equipped remote and deployed teams and operations mangers to conduct cybersecurity assessments in support of intelligence customers, the Defense Industrial Base and Critical Networks and Systems sectors.

As well as conducts the folloing types of assessments in support the mission customer:
Strategic Vulnerability Assessment (Blue Team), Advesary Emulation (Red Team), Target Hunt, Incident Response, Joint COMSEC Monitoring and Operations Management. We are looking for a network engineer to support Cyber Security Defensive Operations with configuration of Cyber Range consisting of 10s to 100s of VMs, physical and virtual network devices, and firewalls utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Terraform, Ansible, VMWare and other automation technologies.

You will work closely with Hunt, Red and Blue Team operators to understand their desired configurations for the Cyber Security Range to support training, force on force exercises, and mimicking of customer infrastructures. You will work with a team of other Software Engineers, System Administrators, Network Engineers and Systems Engineers supporting the Cyber Range and develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

You will be part of a larger development team supporting the Cyber Security Directorate's Defensive Network Operations organization with direct mission support activities when not working on the Cyber Range. Additional expected tasks include:
Providing Tier 1/2/3 technical services to perform daily monitoring and troubleshooting of the Innovation and Training Center components
Provide maintenance and support for active usage of the Innovation and Training Center, this includes building physical and virtual instances for lab, exercise, training, and other use, tearing down the instances after use is completed, and preparing Innovation and Training Center for the next use;
End user support and troubleshooting during all uses of the Innovationa and Training Center;
Provide installation, upgrade, maintenance and support, patching, troublshooting and removal of Innovation and Training Center hardware including servers, switches, routers, and firewalls;
Configure and administer next generation firewalls (e.g. Palo Alto, McAfee) and suggest new rules, routines, and indicators of compromise.
Lead network engineering efforts through subject matte expertise and understanding of the system;
Build and maintain complex Linux systems hardened to meet operational standards;
Provide installation, upgrade, maintenance and support, patching, troubleshooting and removal of all Innovation and Training Center software;
Enable orchestration and automation of the Innovation and Training Center utilizing automation systems such as Puppet, Kickstart, Packer, Terraform, Ansible and Bash/Python scripts;
Implement a health and status monitoring solution and,
Setup and assist with Microsoft Environments (e.g. Group Policy, Active Directory, etc.), container technologies like Docker and Gluster/libvirt Linux knowledge/abililities and similar technologies. What Sets Y​ou Apart:
Bachelor's degree plus 8-years of relevant experience, or Master's degree plus 6-years of relevant experience or an Associate's degree plus 10-years of relevant experience or high school diploma/GED plus 12-years of relevant experience may be considered.
Degree must be in Network Engineering, Systems Engineering, Information Technology, or related field.
Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design/development, programming, information/cyber/network security, vulnerability analysis, penetration testing, computer forensics, information assurance and/or systems engineering. Additionally, must have experience in network or system administration.
TS/SCI clearance with polygraph
Current experience with management of virtualized infrastructure, to include multi-node and multi-site networks

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