Responsibilities

Peraton is seeking an Senior Network Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Herndon, VA. The qualified applicant will become part of Peraton's Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework in order to better support the services provided to CA’s customers.

This position requires excellent interpersonal skills to be able to interact with, support, and influence fellow members of a diverse team within a large program. Your ability to articulate, coordinate, and execute tasking in support of an Agile Integration environment will be key to your success in this role. If challenge, growth, and the ability to have a positive impact on your customer and fellow team members is something that interests you, this job is worth your consideration.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Establish and maintain the integration promotional model environment approach and capabilities to be used on the program
• Support the use of network engineering tools in the integration environments including those used for development, requirements management, test automation, security, monitoring, and configuration management
• Interpret/define network integration requirements based on architecture blueprints and models
• Provide network-based solutions and support users in the use of engineering tools used on the program
• Plans for and maintain integration environment needs based on existing and anticipated work to be performed
• Work closely with the DevSecOps, Architecture, System Integration Test and Development Teams to ensure that virtual workstations, network appliances and tools are integrated together effectively
• Coordinate with the government and/or other providers to ensure that adequate infrastructure, network integration and tools are available to support user needs
• Participate in requirements gathering, management, configuration, test planning and other software/network engineering activities as appropriate

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Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field and 8-10 years’ of experience or Master’s Degree and 6-8 years’ of experience.
• At least three years’ experience with maintaining similar integration environments
• Experience with network integration traffic management proxies and appliances (e.g. LTM/F5, Apache, routers, firewalls etc.)
• Experience with understanding and defining network firewall rules.
• Ability to interpret, define and support network security requirements including 1-way and 2-way SSL TLS-1.2 traffic.
• Understanding of network protocols, domain/path-based routing, mutual authentication, and threat detection.
• Fundamental knowledge of LTM VIP routing configurations, iAPP rules, ICAP policies, certificate requirements, etc.
• Experience with actively supporting the requirements and the design of large-scale software systems.
• Experience managing an Integration environment utilizing the IBM Engineering Life-cycle Management (ELM) suite of tools.
• Experience supporting an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) development program.
• U.S. Citizenship required.

 Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with DoS on-prem network.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g. Salesforce, Azure, Okta, Login.gov).
• Experience with on-prem cluster-based platforms (e.g. OpenShift).
• Experience having planned and established a similar engineering environment.
• Experience supporting an Agile software/system integration.
• Experience using IBM CLM/ELM-related and test automation tools.
• Experience using engineering environments and tools that support Agile development, especially SAFe and Confluence.
• Experience working with or supporting a DevSecOps tool chain.
• Must have a current, active Secret (or higher) clearance. Interim clearances are acceptable.

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can’t be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

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