GridIron IT is seeking a Network Engineer with an Active Secret Clearance. Location: Ft. Meade, MD (Remote flexibility) PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES: •Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
•Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns. •Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements. •Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans. •Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions. •Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards. •Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability. •Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks. •Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts. BASIC QUALIFICATIONS: •Bachelor’s degree with 8 years of experience; additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree. •Must have an active DoD IAT Level II (Security ) certification or equivalent prior to start. •Proficiency in at least one of: enterprise-class firewall technologies, proxies, load balancers, and other IP/transport specific management tools (EMS) and general practices. Expertise in IP technologies, i.e. Networking architectures and methodologies. •This position requires extensive writing and the selected candidate MUST have superb writing skills. PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: •Demonstrated expertise in the design and consolidation of network and security environments across geographically dispersed sites •Expert Knowledge of DoD security requirements for network environments.? •Proficiency in at least one of the following tools: ?PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, or Junos Space. Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status. Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) company specializing in IT Infrastructure, Cyber & Cloud Security, Software Development, and Enterprise Support. Gridiron is an Inc. 5000 2022 recipient and Washington Business Journal Fastest Growing Companies in the Greater Washington Area for 2022. Gridiron offers a competitive benefits package to include medical, dental, vision, 401(k), life insurance, disability insurance, and pet insurance.