Network Engineer

Overview Network Engineer
McLean, VA
TS/SCI with Poly

At Bcore, our strength comes from how we deliver impact to the mission. Whether it’s architecting critical IT solutions, producing actionable intelligence, or developing cutting edge technology, we succeed because of the expertise, collaboration, and agility of our teams. Our Mission Services division combines enterprise IT, cloud solutions, Dev Sec Ops , systems engineering, software development, and operational support. Bcore accelerates decisive advantage for warfighters and intelligence professionals by fusing human insight, rapid-fire engineering, precision-measured outcomes, and relentless grit into mission-ready solutions.

Do you want to join a team that is building tailored technical solutions to modernize our government’s mission and our client’s business? Do you have a desire to change how people work? Are you interested in helping to protect our nation’s cyber interests? Join our growing team supporting customer missions as a Network Engineer in McLean, Virginia
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The Network Engineer is responsible for designing technical solutions for complex problems. The candidate will provide technical oversight of a project solution, including requirement interpretation and allocation of requirements to technical components. The candidate will define processes to support the implementation of requirements. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that technical solutions leverage industry best practices, designing for security and excellence while minimizing the total cost of ownership.

Candidate should be able to define internal and external customer IT infrastructure architecture needs and then design solutions to meet those needs to include: capacity planning, systems configuration and tuning, monitoring backups, and installations of hardware and software. Candidate will be required to work independently with little supervision and should be flexible to work and support IT Operations needs as requested.

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience configuring, designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN/WAN devices
• Thorough understanding of network routing concepts (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IP MPLS)
• 5+ years of experience configuring/maintaining Cisco ASA/Firepower devices
• Basic understanding of QoS concepts
• Experience with network monitoring technologies
• Ability to take ambiguous requirements or problems and convert them into technical solutions
• Ability to partner with systems administrators, storage administrators, and application developers to solve complex problems
• Complex problem management research and issue resolution
• Ability to mentor junior network engineer

Desired Qualifications

• Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting IP multicast streams
• Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting QoS in LAN or WAN devices
• Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting storage network (iSCSI, Fiber channel)
• Experience with designing and implementing data centers
• 3+ years of scripting experience (Python, Perl, Powershell, VBscript, bash, etc.)
• Experience configuring/maintaining other (non-Cisco) hardware firewall devices such as Bastion Host G2 Sidewinder Firewall or Palo Alto Network Next Generation Firewall
• Cisco certifications (CCNA, CCNP, etc.)

BCore is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, sexual orientation or any other characteristic protected by law.