Overview

LEAD SYSTEMS ENGINEER (NETWORK)

Bowhead seeks a Lead Systems Engineer (Network) to support our Marine Corps Electronics Security Systems contract in Charleston, SC. The Senior Systems Engineer (Network) to maintain multiple computing environments by identifying network requirements; installing upgrades; monitoring network performance and managing network configuration consistency. The Lead Systems Engineer will provide engineering, design, and implementation solutions for multiple network architectures.

Responsibilities

• Implement local area networks (LAN), wide area networks (WAN), intranets, extranets, & other data networks 

• Maintains network availability in multiple networking environments by administering Cisco campus based switching environments with fiber-based and copper-based Ethernet connectivity (1gig and 10gig).

• Installs, manages, and maintains Cisco switching components to support campus, wan, and distributed core architectures. Works with Cisco chassis based systems, internet circuit termination equipment, and advanced Cisco management tools.

• Manage Cisco Prime Infrastructure and analyze network health, workflow, access, information, and security requirements; performing router/ switch administration, interface configuration, and switching protocols.

• Experience with network routers and switches, and strong Cisco switch and router configuration experience.

• Working knowledge of TCP/IP, DNS, 802.1x, ACLs, ARP, RADIUS, IPv6, DHCP, Intrusion Prevention, Authentication, and ISP circuit connections

• Develop and execute test plans to check infrastructure and system performance

• Perform network modeling and analysis

• Define diagrams and designs for business technology initiatives

• Enforce policies for standardizing systems

• Maintains and monitors core backbone network services in multiple computing environments by identifying network connectivity requirements; performing network upgrades; monitoring network devices and logs, managing wired network connections, and managing network backbone infrastructure.

Qualifications

• Bachelors degree required 
• 6 -10 Years of experience
• IAT Level II compliance (Security )
• Solid understanding of networking to include routing, VLANs, and distributed virtual switches
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Cisco IOS / IOS XE Switches, ESXi and vCenter servers in a High Availability/Fault Tolerant configuration
• Experience modifying XML configuration files utilizing Python
• Experience creating, maintaining, and utilizing remote shell scripts
• Experience creating, maintaining, and utilizing bash scripts utilizing sed and awk to modify configuration files
• Experience creating, configuring, and maintaining a CA environment utilizing Microsoft Windows Certificate Authority
• Experience creating, configuring, and maintaining an offline WSUS server
• Experience creating, configuring, and maintaining an offline DNS server utilizing Microsoft Windows Active Directory DNS services
• Experience creating, configuring, and maintaining GPO's
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining IIS Servers and sites
• Experience installing, configuring, and maintaining Microsoft SQL Servers, Microsoft NDES, RADIUS, and 802.1X services, Microsoft Windows 10/11, Microsoft Windows 2019/2022, Microsoft Deployment Toolkit and Deployment instances
• Experience installing configuring, and maintaining RHEL 8/9s
• Strong troubleshooting and critical thinking skills
• Strong attention to detail, good documentation skills, ability to write clear, concise project reports
• Ability to function with minimal instruction or supervision, or as a part of larger team reporting to formal project management.
• Strong communication & organizational skills

Physical Demands:

• Must be able to lift up to 10-20 pounds 
• Must be able to stand and walk for prolonged amounts of time
• Must be able to twist, bend and squat periodically

SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIREMENTS: Must currently hold a security clearance at the Top Secret level. US Citizenship is a requirement for Top Secret clearance at this location.

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