We’re looking for an experienced Senior Network Systems Engineer to provide network operations and engineering sustainment support to a mission critical IP messaging and communications transport network in Fort Meade, MD. In this role, you’ll develop an understanding of the services offered to external organizations, provide lifecycle systems engineering support to development and operations on the program and use a combination of technical and functional expertise to recommend solutions to satisfy customer requirements. 

How You’ll Succeed

You’ll succeed by providing network integration, testing, security engineering, configuration and implementation support. You’ll provide operational and engineering status updates and technical briefings on a recurring and ad hoc basis and collaborate with network architects to define and/or continuously improve DISA STIG compliant configuration baselines, versioning and compliance tracking. In addition, you’ll:

• Support the development, accountability and sustainment of lab environment infrastructure devices.
• Test and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
• Lead development of SOPs/TTPs.
• Support Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
• Support system performance tuning and enhancements.
• Support tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
• Participate in Incident Management (IM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management activities.
• Participate in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and engineering, providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to be deployed into production.
• Perform highly technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, network encryption devices and load balancers.
• Provide expert knowledge of network engineering and operations, large scale enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities. Perform highly technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches, security solutions and WANX.

Your Expertise

• You have a bachelor’s degree and 8-12 years of relevant experience.
• You have an active DoD clearance at the Top-Secret level with SCI eligibility.
• You have a Security certification or other DOD 8570 IAT Lvl II Certification within a certain timeframe after starting if not starting with one when hired.
• You have extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security architecture, network topology, IT device integrity and common security elements.
• You have 8 years’ experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including extensive routing and switching experience such as: MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.
• You have expert understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
• You’re experienced and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents, analyses and reports.
• You have experience developing and presenting technical information to senior customer management, customer stakeholders and company management.
• You have hands-on experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise network routing, switching and firewall/security devices.
• You have the ability to travel up to 5% OCONUS travel.

What Sets You Apart

• Extensive SME knowledge of network engineering and operations, integration, test and evaluation activities, as well as implementation and transition to Network Operations processes and concepts.
• Cisco CCNP Route/Switch and/or CCNP Security.
• Experience and practical understanding of enterprise WAN principles.
• Experience with change, configuration and performance management NetOps concepts.
• IAT Level III Certification (i.e. CISSP or equivalent).

The Impact

AIS is a leading cyber and information security company supporting mission critical operations across the DoD, intelligence community, commerce and beyond. Our roots trace back to the very beginnings of cybersecurity research, when a group of hackers worked around a pool table until they became profitable enough to order office furniture. They hung a pirate flag on the wall to represent their decision to do things differently. Those pioneers started AIS because they not only believed in the potential of the industry, but the necessity to provide the United States with the offensive and defensive capabilities needed to gain the high ground in cyber warfare.

Decades later, the pirate flag waves tall outside of our headquarters, and we continue to develop and envision technologies that protect our nation and our warfighters. The challenge is that there is no end in sight. We’re looking for the best and brightest people to support our mission. When you join our team, no matter your role, you’ll be contributing to the security of our nation and our way of life.

The Culture

You’re not just a number here. Founded in 2001, AIS is a privately-owned company committed to excellence in all facets. We pride ourselves on offering some of the best benefits seen in the industry and ensuring our brilliant team members have exciting, challenging and impactful work and a fun, values-driven environment to collaborate in. We celebrate the unique backgrounds and experiences of our people and encourage new ideas, innovation and the autonomy to create the future and career they want with our support.

EOE/AA Disability/Veteran

US Salary Range: $87,100.00-157,450.00The salary offered to a selected candidate will be based on a number of factors including location, skills and experience. In addition to a comprehensive benefits package which includes employer paid health insurance and a 7% contribution to your 401k, candidates may be eligible for other forms of compensation.

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