Network Engineer III

Network Engineer III

Job Category:
Information Technology
Time Type:
Full-time
Minimum Clearance Required to Start:
Top Secret/SCI
Employee Type:
Regular
Percentage of

Travel Required:

None
Type of Travel: 25%

RISA has an exciting and challenging opportunity available for a Network Engineer supporting an Intelligence Community customer's wide-area (WAN), local-area (LAN) and campus-area (CAN) networks across multiple security domains.

• Focus will be on Network Engineering, new project requirements, and the operation and sustainment of existing infrastructure. This position does require at least 25% travel.
• Coordination of system maintenance, monitoring, and installation of multiple WAN/LAN environments encompassing multiple specializations, platforms, and technologies.
• Assist with research and implementation of enterprise system-wide network solutions/capabilities/enhancements to support customer business/mission goals and objectives.
• Troubleshoot and resolve network media and components.
• Evaluate and monitor the health and performance of the network, including hardware and management software.
• Develop and maintain a road map for capabilities, operations, and technologies.
• Assist with the development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation of all network configuration upgrades, additions, or revisions for customer approval before implementation.
• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives.
• Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance the capacity, performance, and reliability of the network.
• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization, and industry best practices.
• Follow all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensuring compliance with all Government policies.
• Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.
• Perform site surveys for new installations and technology refresh.
• Installs, maintains, and troubleshoots satellite communications equipment.
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.

• Security clearance: active TS/SCI.
• 8+ years related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques.
• 4+ years’ experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high-paced diverse environment.
• Understanding and experience with the DoD Architecture Framework and other key DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions.
• Experience with Juniper, switches, routers, and firewalls (MX, EX, SRX devices), Cryptographic devices (KG-175G/X, KG-245A/X).
• Experience with Network analysis tools (HP/Microfocus Network Automation and Network Node Manager, Juniper Secure Analytics, Infoblox, Riverbed).
• Experience with Juniper firewall/VPN equipment (SRX series).
• Experience with supporting IP services to connect to NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS (IPv4, VPN, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc).
• Experience with OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP/LDP L2/3
  
  VPNs, VRFs, IKE/IPSec, GRE tunnels, MTU, FTP, Import/Export policies.
• Certifications:
  
  IAT II.

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, CISCO CCNP, CCVP, CCNA or CCDP (or equivalent).
• ITIL v3 Foundations.
• ISC2 CISSP.
• CompTIA Security+.

Professional Office Environment:
Must be able to sit at a desktop or laptop computer for extended periods of time.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit, stand, talk, hear, and use hands and fingers to operate a computer and telephone.
• Must be able to communicate regularly via telephone and verbally present information to employees, customers, and outside vendors.

• 40 hours per week based on the customer's core operating hours.

RISA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.