Network Engineer

Overview

Employment in this role is conditional upon successful execution of the contract by the client.

The Work

The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, securing, monitoring, and maintaining reliable network infrastructure in support of government and contract requirements. The Network Engineer ensures optimal network performance, security, availability, and scalability to meet agency mission objectives. This role supports daily operations, ongoing improvements, troubleshooting, and lifecycle management while complying with applicable contract regulations.

This position aligns with Cayuse’s core values of Innovation, Excellence, Collaboration, Adaptability, and Integrity by fostering technical solutions that meet customer needs, promoting teamwork, and prioritizing quality in deliverables.

Key Responsibilities

• Perform network engineering duties consistent with the Network Engineer labor category.
• Apply cyber and/or information technology duties and experiences specifically with relation to A/V systems, as required for the Journeyman level.
• Maintain and apply required IAT/M certification level (II or III) within the scope of assigned network duties.
• Understand LAN and WAN concepts and methodologies at the professional level with knowledge equivalent to:
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional or similar certifications.
• Understand, design, and implement networks in accordance with best practices including, but not limited to:
  • 2-Tier Model
  • 3-Tier Model
  • Spine-Leaf
  • WAN
  • SOHO
  • Cloud
  • First Hop Redundancy
• Provide recommendations for network design changes/enhancements for improved systems' availability and performance.
• Install, troubleshoot, and maintain all copper and fiber cables for all 39 IOS networks.
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain switches and switching technologies including, but not limited to:
  • Access Ports
  • Trunk Ports
  • VLAN
  • Native VLAN
  • Private VLAN
  • Multicast
  • STP
  • MAC
  • CAM
  • CEF
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain routers and routing technologies including, but not limited to:
  • Static and Dynamic Routing
  • Multicast
  • OSPF
  • EIGRP
  • IS-IS
  • BGP
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Quality of Service (QoS) technologies including, but not limited to Differentiated Services Code Point (DSCP).
• Configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Firewalls including, but not limited to:
  • Configuring rules
  • configuring access control lists
  • configuring zones
  • encryptors including
  • Tactical LAN Encryptors (TACLANE)
• Ensure all network systems are up to date with the latest approved software updates and security patches and implement STIGs.
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain Network Monitoring, Services and Management Systems including, but not limited to:
  • GEM One, Solar Winds, Cisco ISE, DNA Center, Net Flow Security and authentication services, Cisco ISE, TACACS/TACACS+, RADIUS, SSH, AAA, VPN, and Access Control Lists.
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain IP address management and services including, but not limited to:
  • Manual Addressing/Subnetting, DHCP, DNS, NAT, IPv4, and IPv
    6.
• Design, configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain device management services including, but not limited to: FTP/TFTP, Syslog, SNMP, SCP, NTP, and CDP/LLDP.
• Install, troubleshoot, and maintain Phones including, but not limited to: VOIP, VOSIP, Analog POTS and Desktop VTC Systems.
• Create and maintain documentation for all installs and changes including, but not limited to:
  • Diagrams (Layer 1, Layer 2, Layer 3, Boundary, Core, Distribution, Access).
  • Rack elevations and Ports and Protocols lists.
• Maintain Uninterruptable Power Systems (UPS) in communication closet racks which involves, but is not limited to:
  • monitoring the unit.
  • Removing and replacing batteries.
  • Removing and replacing the whole unit.
• Configure, install, troubleshoot, and maintain long-haul communications equipment including, but not limited to:
  Multiplexers, Switches, Routers, and Demarcation Points.
• Perform Circuit Actions including, but not limited to:
  • Procuring new circuits.
  • Maintaining circuit history folders.
  • Submitting TSRs and complying with TSOs.
• Support network operations and enterprise architecture…