Network Engineer with Security Clearance

In this fast paced, innovation driven environment, the incumbent will:
- Design, implement, and secure next generation IT infrastructure solutions.
- Standardize and streamline processes across classified environments.
- Collaborate with cross functional teams to accelerate product development for U.S. Department of Defense missions.
- Ensure compliance with all relevant security policies and industry best practices. Responsibilities
- Perform routine updates, major upgrades, patching, and vulnerability scanning
- Maintain asset inventory and ensure hardware/software lifecycle compliance
- Enforce DoD policies, including STIG and RMF requirements
- Implement security hardening, remediate findings, and conduct technical security implementations
- Provide timely resolution of infrastructure issues (hardware, software, networking)
- Update Service Central tickets, JIRA issues, and Confluence pages with accurate status, work performed details, and any changes to scope, priority, or assignment; attach relevant artifacts and ensure traceability to requirements or incidents.
- Coordinate with stakeholders (customers, engineers, and support leads) to verify resolution, close tickets or issues promptly, and communicate any follow up actions or documentation updates across all three platforms.
- Design and implement innovative technical solutions to complex problems
- Support classified customer demonstration environments and lab testbeds, ensuring readiness and performance for stakeholder reviews
- Document system configurations, procedures, and lessons learned
- Mentor junior staff and contribute to knowledge base growth
- Participate in a 24 × 7 on call rotation; work off shift hours and weekends as needed
- Work onsite full time with occasional travel to other facilities or customer sites

Basic Qualifications:

- Top Secret Clearance Required with the ability to Obtain and Maintain a CI Polygraph.
- Demonstrated experience with configuring and maintaining Network devices (Switches, Firewalls and Routers).

- Experience with Cisco, Juniper and Palo Alto network devices and creating firewall rule Policies.
- IAT Level II (8570 compliant) certification (Security+ or equivalent certification)
- Proven classified infrastructure support and administration experience

- Experience with DoD requirements and processes including Risk Management Framework requirements within classified environments.
Desired

Skills:

- IAT Level II (8570 compliant) certification (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA)
- Network security certifications (CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, JNCIA, Palo Alto Networks)
- 4 + years experience administering and supporting enterprise class, classified IT infrastructure
- Hands on experience with Cisco, Juniper, and Palo Alto devices;
Cisco ACI, CUCM, Unity Connection, Voice/VTC deployments
- Configuring, installing, deploying, and maintaining switches, routers, firewalls, WAN optimizers, encryption appliances (TACLANE), and optical transport equipment
- Strong knowledge of the OSI model, TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, VLANs, GRE tunnels, UDP multicast, SONET, MSPP, DNS, DHCP, subnetting, and Layer 2/3 VLAN design
- Network traffic analysis, diagnostics, and troubleshooting expertise
- Virtualization & cloud platforms: VMware (NSX, vSAN, Horizon, ARIA), private/public clouds, SAN/NAS, VDI, Net App storage, Dell VxRail/HCI
- Scripting/automation (Power Shell, Bash, Python or similar)
- Firewall rule creation and policy management
- Familiarity with STIGs, RMF, vulnerability management, patching, and security hardening processes

- Experience with ITSM/ITOM tools (e.g., Aria Operations) and DoD Cloud Computing SRG compliance
- Excellent written and verbal communication, documentation, and mentoring skills
- Active Top Secret (or higher) clearance required at hire; must remain eligible throughout employment , U.S. citizen, candidates must also be eligible to undergo a Counter Intelligence (CI) polygraph.
- Growth mindset with willingness to learn new technologies and adapt to a fast changing, mission critical environment