Network System Engineer

Founded in 2007 and headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, Synergy ECP is a leading provider of cybersecurity, software and systems engineering and IT services to the U.S. intelligence and defense communities. The company leverages its expertise in data transport solutions, software and systems engineering, and other solutions to deliver critical and innovative capabilities to high-level decision makers that enhance our nation’s security.

In an ultra-competitive environment, Synergy ECP has thrived by adhering to our name, making sure excellence is displayed by our employees, to our customers and by Improving Performance (ECP). It’s what sets us apart, enabling us to be an autonomous yet agile business that delivers huge results—showing we’re ready to meet our customers’ evolving demands. Synergy ECP has earned a client list that includes numerous Fortune 100 companies, in addition to multiple branches of the US government and military services.

Provide network and systems administrator support to the Defensive Network Operations (DNO) program for the development and maintenance of the Innovation and Training Center for mission customers. The DNO program provides trained and equipped remote and deployed teams and operations managers to conduct cybersecurity assessments in support of intelligence customers, the Defense Industrial Base and Critical Networks and Systems sectors. As well as conduct the following types of assessments in support the mission customer:
Strategic Vulnerability Assessment (Blue Team), Adversary 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.

• 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 Innovation and Training Center
• Provide installation, upgrade, maintenance and support, patching, troubleshooting 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 matter 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
• Setup and assist with Microsoft Environments (e.g. Group Policy, Active Directory, etc.), container technologies…