Network Engineer

Altamira Technologies Corporation has a long and successful history providing innovative solutions throughout the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence and homeland security communities by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data and security. Altamira believes that our people and the culture of our company differentiate us from other companies. We focus on recruiting talented, self-motivated employees that strive to find a way to get things done.

The Network Engineer maintains smooth operation of voice and data networks. Plans, evaluates, coordinates and performs installation and/or reconfiguration of hardware and software elements of data and/or voice communication network. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of voice and data networks hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, firewalls, switches, wireless, etc. May propose solutions to management to ensure all communications requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings. Prepares or ensures that appropriate network documentation exists, including operational instructions. Provides regular monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems. May coordinate third-party maintenance for network equipment. May design network or portion of network that include selection of hardware and software packages.

Required Skills Include The Following

• U.S. Citizenship required.
• Support enterprise and development network infrastructure.
• Support maintenance, troubleshooting and Corporate of network.
• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with the following: TCP/IP, Cisco switches, routers, VLAN configuration, firewalls, VPN, Network Intrusion Device Systems, etc.
• Evaluate, test, install and implement new and existing hardware and software across physical media, protocol stacks, switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices, and network management components.
• Perform problem isolation and resolution of network problems through troubleshooting and devising effective solutions.
• Install patches and maintain accurate records of program corrections and patch levels. Perform Network Management functions such as, network monitoring, network performance measurement and reporting.
• Perform updates to network devices, including Firewalls, NIDS, switches, and routers
• Maintain accurate records of program corrections and patch/update level.
• Support development and maintenance of all required network policies and procedures.
  
  

Certifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering or a related discipline is required. [Four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a degree.]
• Five (5) or more years of Network Support/Engineering experience required.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or similar certification required.
• IA level II or CND level II certification preferred (e.g., Security , SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, GCIH, GSEC certifications).
  
  

Additional Responsibilities And/or Skills

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one of more of the following is required: Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow, traffic and packet analysis.
• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with tools used for security analysis (e.g., tcpdump, Wireshark, snort, ngrep, nmap, strings, hexdump, md5sum, systools) is preferred.
• Experience with Security Event Incident Management, Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems is preferred