Sr. Network Engineer; Cisco & Network Security

• Fort Meade, MD

We solve difficult business, IT, and analytic problems by addressing the whole problem – not just the symptoms – using interdisciplinary approaches that are both practical and innovative. We provide fresh alternatives to ordinary, mainstream consulting firms through small, highly skilled, and hand-picked teams that can meet clients' needs in any industry. Our broad interdisciplinary understanding allows us to provide the right solution, even if it is from outside the industry or traditionally defined problem space.

We bring Public and Private, Civilian and Military expertise to every case.

to work in Fort Meade, MD
. Position location is subject to change based on central MD client's needs.

TS/SCI with a Polygraph

• Develop, plan, and implement scalable network solutions, new network layouts, and upgrades.
• Install, configure, and maintain network hardware (routers, switches, firewalls) and software.
• Implement and manage network security measures, including firewall rules, access controls, and security protocols to protect data.
• Resolve network issues.
• Monitor network health, analyze traffic patterns, and improve visibility through metrics and alerting.
• Create and maintain network documentation, policies, and procedures.

Provides assistance in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks;
Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents;
Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a software engineering environment;
Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots problems and recommends procurement of and/or modifications to network components.

• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools
• Develops algorithms used in modules or incorporated into models associated with the research and development of technologies and systems.
• Ensures that all material received is inspected for evidence of tampering and, if any is found, submits a report of suspected physical incident immediately
• Configure and maintain organization's network diagrams and accreditations.
• Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations.
• Design, integrate, test, and deploy solutions to established network issues.
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow‑on data repositories and tasking organizations and mitigate potential adverse impacts on system‑wide dataflow
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load‑balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, Traffic Shapping Voice over IP (VOIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec) IP Encryption and Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
• Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations to minimize down time.
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies
• Applies Network Acceleration techniques such as Riverbed.
• Conducts inventories as directed (e.g., semiannually/annually)
• Reports any known or suspected COMSEC incidents immediately
• Perform configuration, test, deployment, and maintenance to all network equipment.
• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats,
• Manage…