Senior Network Engineer; TS​/SCI Poly

• Fort Meade, MD

Job Title:

Senior Network Engineer

Location:

Fort Meade, MD

Employment Type:

Full Time

Work Arrangement:
On-Site

Work Site:
Customer Site

Security Clearance:
Current Department of Defense (DoD) Top Secret - Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) with Polygraph is required.

Due to federal contract requirements, United States Citizenship and position-appropriate security clearance is required
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Position Overview: Braxton-Grant Technologies is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to perform in all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks. This role will ensure the overall health and strong security posture of complex network architectures and will be responsible for designing, implementing, and supporting network and communication solutions within a distributed environment.

Responsibilities include analyzing technical requirements and network performance, troubleshooting connectivity and performance issues, and recommending network component purchases, upgrades, or modifications. The Engineer will ensure compliance is maintained with DOD Information Assurance requirements as well as ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design solutions for and integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide support for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies;
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management;
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components;
• Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations with minimal down time;
• Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design;
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate;
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools;
• Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to Junior Network Engineers;
• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats;
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and understand potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow;
• Design, integrate, test and deploy RF communications solutions;
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale;
• Work with System Engineers and cross-organizational teams to define requirements;
• Support efficient repeatable inspection process of network boundary traffic to inspect for evidence of successful and failed compromises, Advance Persistent Threats, and misuse of standard, permitted services;
• Support efficient repeatable inspection process to support review of all boundary services including but not limited to firewalls, proxies, and VPNs to ensure the security posture of the services are consistently applied and done so in accordance with mission and industry best practices;
• Support regular technical assessments of network boundaries including use of security tools in coordination with security elements of the Agency to ensure boundaries remain secure;
• Support monthly access reviews to verify that access remains limited to authorized users and is restricted to the minimum level necessary to perform job functions;
  Support security investigations as requested by Agency security organizations to include traffic inspection, dissection and reassembly of traffic;
• Consult on and engineer next-generation solutions compliant with Agency policies to meet…