This position requires an active DoD TS/SCI clearance

General Responsibilities:

• Operations, maintenance, sustainment, and troubleshooting at the highest tier support for IT infrastructure across multiple networks and security domains
• Keep networking devices in compliance with latest patches, IAVAs, and OPDIRs
• Brief leadership on the health of systems locally and throughout the enterprise
• Provide customers recommendations to increase performance and redundancy of current network configurations and recommendations for future upgrades
• Update/Create documentation as needed (user guides, admin guides, knowledge base articles, FAQs, quick reference guides)
• Provide training to peer engineers as needed
• Setting up IP schemas for multi-tenant environments
• Configuring physical and virtual switching, routing, and firewall protocols, ports, and services
• Interface with vendors to address problem escalation during outages or periods of degraded system performance
• Researches, evaluates, recommends, and provides quality assurance review and evaluation of new and existing networking products, technologies, and enhancements
• Plans and coordinates major computer network initiatives
• Utilizes monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software, and hardware equipment to troubleshoot and isolate problems, gauge network performance, and trace data and protocol activity
• Develops and executes disaster recovery and contingency plans for network software and hardware failures including isolated and major outages
• Other duties as required

Mandatory Skills Requirements:

• Meet DoD 8570 requirements for IAT II - for instance, must have and maintain, at a minimum, active Security CE and associate level or higher Network certification
• Must patch and implement security controls in response to IAVAs and OPDIRs on respective network equipment (physical and virtual)
• Familiar with network monitoring software
• Working knowledge of network standards/protocols/security, hardware, and application virtualization
• Working knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management
• Working knowledge of the Windows and/or Linux Operating systems to include Server and Workstation environments
• Excellent communication, interpersonal skills, and ability to work independently and in a collaborative team environment
• Hands-on experience with network equipment including hubs, routers, switches, bridges, firewalls, servers, transmission media, and related hardware
• Hands-on experience with network systems design, development, testing, installation, operations, management, and maintenance concepts and methods

Other Skills Preferred:

• Knowledge of standard DoD and Marine Corps concepts, practices, and procedures. Familiarity with Navy/Marine Corps interoperability requirements is preferred
• Support to tactical SATCOM programs
• Familiarity with Load Balancers (hardware and software)
• Cloud experience – AWS Preferred
• Juniper Operating System (JUNOS) and/or CISCO IOS
• Strong TCP/IP foundation, BGP, QoS, and Multicast
• Network Security Appliances to include Type1 encryption devices
• Video Teleconference (VTC), Desktop VTC, and Voice Over Internet Protocol (VOIP) integration and management
• WAN technologies, protocols, and optimizers
• Active Directory, Group Policy, Windows Server, Linux OS, Networks, MS Exchange, MS Lync, MS SQL Server, SCCM, SCOM, Service Manager, Networked Printers/Services, Distributed File Services, Data Protection Manager, MS SharePoint, PowerShell, JavaScript
• Working knowledge of DoD STIGs related to the applicable technologies and how to implement, mitigate, and write POAM statements

Physical requirements:

Must be able to remain in a stationary position 50%

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