The NCIS program is searching for a Network Engineer to join their team in Quantico, VA.
The Naval Criminal Investigative Service (NCIS) is an organization of approximately 2,200 personnel of which 700 serve at HQ and the remaining staff serve at offices worldwide. NCIS is the DON component with primary responsibility for criminal investigation, law enforcement (LE), counter-terrorism (CT), counterintelligence (CI), and cyber matters. NCIS not only has primary responsibility for all criminal investigative, CI, CT, and cyber matters within the DON, but it also has exclusive investigative jurisdiction in non-combat matters involving actual, potential, or suspected criminal, terrorism, sabotage, espionage, and subversive activities.
NCIS provides the DON with threat status and warnings associated with terrorist, criminal, cyber, and counterintelligence activity throughout the world. NCIS is the only DON organization that has the information and responsibility to fuse and analyze the national intelligence and law enforcement information necessary to provide these warnings.
The Information Technology Directorate (ITD) supports the NCIS core mission areas to investigate and defeat criminal, terrorist, and foreign intelligence threats by planning for and providing services through appropriate use of the people, equipment, technology, and infrastructure resources of the United States Navy and Marine Corps. This position is part of the IT Technology Development division within the NCIS ITDS organization and performs the following functions:
• Tests and analyzes all elements of network facilities
• Monitors and controls the performance and status of network resources on multiple enclaves utilizing software and hardware tools
• Identifies and diagnoses problems and factors affecting network performance
• Analyzes network performance, usage, traffic flows, access, and interfaces
• Provides technical planning and analysis for communication activities including designing, integrating, installing, troubleshooting, repairing, testing, monitoring, reporting, documenting, working with appropriate vendors, and performing preventative maintenance services
• Performs testing, provisioning, operations and emergency response for ongoing network operations
• Oversees and managers the deployment of upgrades to existing data, video, and related systems in a multi-location environment
• Ensures all required operational and support documents are current
• Maintains a current understanding of emerging technologies an trends in online media, cloud service, storage solutions, and other data center technologies Basic Qualifications:
• 10 years of network experience; with 2 years of specialized experience
• Bachelors (May be substituted for additional years of experience)
• Experience with engineering data center and IP backbone networks in a multi-vendor, multiprotocol environment, including networks based on T1, DS3, Fiber/Optical, DSL, Ethernet, and Ethernet over Copper core.
• Experience with the following protocols, BGP, OSPF, vDC, vPC, VRF’s, Spanning-Tree, VLANs, 802.1q, QoS, Cisco ASA with Active/Active Multiple Contexts
• Firewall Experience Required- Cisco ASA 5500X, Juniper SRX, Forcepoint SW • Expert level configuration of Cisco routers and switches including: 4500/6500, 3750, 3850, and ASR 1000 • Nexus 2K/5K/7K/9K Data Center Experience • Experience with configuration and management of firewalls; Cisco Firepower, Palo Alto, Forcepoint Sidewinder, and Juniper
• Familiar with NTP /MAB/F5 Deployment
• Experience with Network Management Apps - Cisco ACS/ISE, Cisco Prime, SolarWinds
• Current CISSP and CCNP
• Active Top Secret (TS) SCI clearance is required to start
• Active CCIE certification is plus