Sr Principal Network Engineer

The Sr Principal Network Engineer shall design, install, configure and troubleshoot wired and wireless network architectures. This includes routers, switches, VPN, IDS/IPS, SIEM, wireless access points, controllers, and other supporting devices and software used for monitoring, data collection and network security.

Applicant must currently hold at minimum a DoD Secret Clearance.

• Bachelor’s degree with 10+ years of experience installing, configuring, troubleshooting wired and wireless networks
• Experience implementing and enforcing 802.1X/802.11 standards on networks.
• Experience working WPA Enterprise encryption standards.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with firewall applications, set up, maintenance and troubleshooting.
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with IPS / IDS
• Knowledge of and experience with VPN concentrators. Worked with FIPS level encryption standard over networks.
• Knowledge of and experience with implementing and managing a certificate authority for PKI
• Ability to use tools to detect rogue access points
• Ability to integrate wired and wireless networks to other enterprise systems
• Experience mitigating and isolating wireless attacks.
• Thorough knowledge of and ability to use various wireless client tools to detect and resolve issues
• Thorough knowledge of switches and routers (CCNP or better), CCIE desired
• Thorough knowledge of networking fundamentals including VLANs, subnets, protocols, and standards
• Thorough knowledge of and experience with Windows 10 and Server 2012 operating systems and Microsoft Active Directory. Principles, deployment and troubleshooting Active Directory applications in a large Enterprise environment.
• CompTIA Security+ or CCNA Security (DoD 8570 compliant)

• Knowledge of HP Aruba wireless controllers. This includes the ability to create new wireless LANs, configure anchor controllers, configure APs, and configure wireless security and authentication.
• Knowledge of HP Aruba wireless access points and the ability to deploy and configure them.
• Knowledge of Aruba Clear Pass
• Knowledge of and ability to use HP Aruba tools and software to analyze issues
• Knowledge of Juniper SRX VPN/firewalls and Juniper QFX switches series
• Knowledge of Cisco ASA firewalls and VPN concentrators.
• Knowledge of Cisco routers and switches and ISE
• Knowledge of Nessus, Solarwinds, Stealth Watch
• Knowledge of Bluecoat Proxy
• Knowledge of OPSF, BGP, Multicast, IPv4, IPv6, QOS
• Knowledge of VMWare, Esxi
• Knowledge of Visio, able to create network diagrams, able to present how the network works.
• Microsoft Server 2012 and Active Directory.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.