Systems Engineer Mid Level

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At Stratas Corp, our mission strives to put employees first while still being recognized as a leader in the Department of Defense Information Technology sector. We believe in a continuing pursuit of customer satisfaction and operational excellence while exceling in service innovation. We are looking for employees who value corporate culture, leadership, diversity, and commitment to quality, because we are #Team Stratas.

Location

Pearl Harbor, HI - Pearl Harbor, HI 96860 US (Primary)

Category

Information Technology

Job Description

This position will serve as a technical resource and escalation point for complex network issues while supporting engineering, configuration management, change management, lab validation, and future enterprise network solutions.

This position is located on-site, no remote opportunities are available. The preferred location of this role is on-site in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Candidates located in Norfolk, Virginia may also be considered.

• Lead efforts to identify, troubleshoot, analyze, and resolve complex network issues in a dynamic enterprise environment.
• Configure, maintain, and troubleshoot network infrastructure, including switches, routers, VLANs, wireless access points (APs), firewalls, and network sensors.
• Provide engineering expertise and operational support for one of the world's largest intranet environments.
• Serve as a Tier III escalation resource for complex incidents, including coordinating with vendors as necessary for incident resolution.
• Serve as an SME and technical backstop for troubleshooting efforts involving multiple network disciplines and teams of CCNP/CCIE-level engineers.
• Apply extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles to secure enterprise network infrastructure.
• Troubleshoot technologies and protocols including routing, switching, SD-WAN, WLAN, MPLS, VPNs, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, switching protocols, and multicast.
• Collaborate with cross-functional engineering and operations teams to enhance network availability, performance, reliability, and security.
• Develop and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIPs) supporting network changes and deployments.
• Create and manage change management tickets for deployments, maintenance activities, upgrades, and other network changes.
• Conduct Root Cause Analysis (RCA) in support of problem management activities and recurring incident resolution.
• Participate in engineering, architecture, and project meetings to design and develop future enterprise network solutions.
• Track engineering and operational work within an Agile/SAFe framework using JIRA.
• Participate in Daily Stand-Ups (DSUs), retrospectives, Program Increment (PI) activities, and other Agile ceremonies.
• Develop and deliver detailed demonstrations and technical updates supporting Program Increment objectives.

• Maintain version-controlled configuration baselines for network infrastructure devices, including routers, switches, firewalls, and sensors.
• Maintain accurate records of startup and running configurations, firmware versions, security policies, and associated network configuration data.
• Ensure configuration changes are properly documented, peer-reviewed, approved, and backed up to a centralized repository.
• Maintain change-tracking and rollback capabilities to support operational resilience and configuration recovery.
• Ensure network configurations remain compliant with applicable DISA Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and organizational cybersecurity policies.
• Conduct pre-production validation testing for firmware upgrades, configuration changes, and security patches before deployment to production networks.
• Perform testing within an isolated lab environment designed to mirror applicable production network topology and configurations.
• Validate network functionality, security policies and controls, device interoperability, performance against established baselines, and deployment/rollback procedures.
• Document testing results, identified risks, remediation requirements, and deployment recommendations prior to production implementation.