Network Engineer

At MITRE, your passion fuels work that impacts our nation and improves lives. This is where your skills strengthen national security, cybersecurity, health, transportation, and citizen services. We’re a nonprofit engineering, applied research, and advanced technology organization working in the public interest. With objectivity and integrity at our core, we lead federally funded research and development centers for U.S. government agencies – collaborating with industry and academia to deliver integrated, high-impact solutions that advance our nation’s health, security, and prosperity.

Our people tackle the toughest technical challenges, supported by competitive benefits, meaningful career development, and a culture of innovation, collaboration, and technical excellence. Choose MITRE for a career with purpose — and help shape the future.

• Enterprise Network Engineering
• Network Security
• Network Management and Orchestration
• Network Modeling and Simulation
• AI Infrastructure and Data Center Networking
• Infrastructure Virtualization and Containerization
• Software Development
• IT Service Management (ITSM)

By integrating deep technical expertise across networking and ITSM, we provide our federal sponsors with comprehensive solutions that enable their mission outcomes.

MITRE’s Intelligence Network Services department is seeking talented Network Engineers to join our team and leverage expertise in enterprise networking, network security, automation, and infrastructure architecture to address complex technical challenges for a wide range of sponsor organizations. Candidates will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, validation, and modernization of secure, resilient, and scalable network environments spanning LAN/WAN, data center, and emerging AI infrastructure use cases.

The role requires strong collaboration, technical rigor, and the ability to translate mission needs into practical engineering solutions.

• Typically requires 10 years or more related experience with a related Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, related discipline, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• The candidate will engage in hands‑on, mission‑driven work. Responsibilities span the full solution lifecycle—from design and prototyping through testing, implementation, and monitoring—across networking and digital service management solutions. The candidate is expected to have knowledge in the following activities:
• Network Architecture & Strategy:
  Define architecture and engineering strategy for network and service management platforms, including target-state designs, technology standards, service frameworks, operational processes, and implementation artifacts that enable secure, scalable, resilient, and supportable solutions.
• Network Implementation & Validation:
  Configure, deploy, test, and validate enterprise network infrastructure and security services across IPv4/IPv6, LAN/WAN, campus, branch, data center, and cloud environments, including routing, switching, VLANs, VRFs, BGP, OSPF, SDN, SD-WAN, DNS, DHCP, NAT, load balancing, firewalls and ACL policy enforcement, network segmentation, SASE, network orchestration, policy-as-code, and Zero Trust architecture. Drive infrastructure automation, configuration compliance and repeatable deployments.
• Data Center Network Architecture, Operations & Transformation:
  Support the network infrastructure of the data center, including planning, design, implementation, day‑to‑day network operations, capacity management, consolidation, relocation, and migration initiatives. Apply knowledge to set‑up servers, hypervisors, VMs, containers, Kubernetes, backup…