811833 Systems Administrator $195,000.00

Labor Category: Systems Administrator

Position Title: Network Engineering Lab Manager

Position Level: Level 2 – Expert

Salary: Up to $195,000.00 per year

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Location: Herndon VA

Description

Position Requires a Top Secret (TS/SCI) Clearance with a Polygraph.

This Systems Admin role acts as Network Engineering Lab Manager supporting a wide range of customers. This position is a multi-disciplinary role that functions as a hybrid Network Engineer, Project Manager, and Logistics Manager. Positions work under minimal technical guidance to oversee the daily operations, physical infrastructure, and logical organization of an R&D and Customer Proof of Concept (PoC) lab. Responsibilities include the end-to-end lifecycle of lab environments — from physical racking and cabling to baseline configuration and resource scheduling. The Lab Manager is the primary stakeholder for lab documentation, ensuring a precise “source of truth” for all hardware, software, and network topologies.

Details

Labor Category: Systems Administrator

Position Title: Network Engineering Lab Manager

Position Level: Level 2 – Expert

Salary: Up to $195,000.00 per year

Core Hours: 9am to 4pm

Location: Herndon VA

Mandatory Requirements

• Developmental (0-2 years’ experience)
• Full Performance (3-5 years’ experience)
• Senior (6-10 years’ experience)
• Expert (11-15 years’ experience)
• SME (16 years’ experience)
• Documentation & Standards — Develops and maintains comprehensive “as-built” documentation, including physical rack elevations, logical network diagrams, and IP address management.
• System Integration & Execution — Plans and executes network configurations for the integration of new hardware; performs physical installation including racking, stacking, and professional-grade structured cabling.
• Operational Planning — Directs daily lab operations by analyzing team workflows, establishing priorities, and setting deadlines to ensure environment readiness.
• Operational Setup — Executes baseline routing, switching, and firewall configurations to stage “clean” sandbox environments for R&D testing and customer demonstrations.
• Resource Coordination — Consults with internal engineering leads, management, and vendors to assess hardware needs and coordinate scheduling to balance long-term R&D with short-notice PoCs.
• Security & Access Control — Implements and manages firewall rules, VLANs, and ACLs to isolate testing environments; regulates and monitors file and physical access to maintain confidentiality and proper use.
• Lifecycle & Logistics Management — Performs horizontal integration planning to ensure lab schedules, hardware procurement, and technical setups are aligned; manages an inventory of parts and the organized decommissioning of legacy equipment.
• Facility Layout Planning — Analyzes information to recommend and plan computer specifications, physical rack layouts, and power/cooling requirements for lab growth.
• General Administrative Activities — Attends meetings, prepares lab status reports, and participates in training and professional development.
• Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
• Core Networking — Knowledge of fundamental routing and switching concepts and firewall policy management.
• Technical Writing — Composing clear and concise technical documentation, installation guides, and reports for both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Design — Knowledge of design techniques, tools, and principals involved in the production of precision technical plans, blueprints, and drawings.
• Complex Problem Solving — Identifying complex infrastructure problems and reviewing related information to develop and evaluate options and implement solutions.
• Information Ordering — The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules.
• Manual Dexterity — Must have good manual dexterity and requires safely moving, transporting, or stocking items with weights between 30–50 lbs.
• Near Vision — The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Time Management — Managing one's own time and the time of others.
• Critical Thinking — Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems.
• Equipment Selection — Determining the kind of tools and equipment needed to do a job.
• Customer and Personal Service — Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services, including needs assessment and evaluation of satisfaction.
  
  

Optional Requirements

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree are preferred with a minimum of eleven (11) year’s relevant experience with the following skillsets:

• Knowledge of network architecture, design, and implementation
• Knowledge of specific network technologies such as routing and switching
• Familiar with routing protocols such as EIGRP, BGP, ISIS
• Familiar with switching protocols such as STP, LACP, VTP
• Ability to provide technical guidance and mentorship to lab users
• Experience with creating technical documentation such as designs, implementation plans, and technical notes
• Ability to brief designs to review boards
• Ability to learn, understand and implement new technologies
• Independent learner with a proven ability to master complex technical concepts through self-study and practice
  
  

B4CORP Company Information

B4Corp is a small defense contracting company that focuses on providing an optimum environment for mission-focused, highly skilled consultants to support the United States of America’s intelligence community and other defense organizations. B4Corp provides a low overhead, highly efficient, high salary environment that allows employees to excel at meeting the client’s needs. B4Corp is looking for information technology professionals that have a high sense of personal responsibility, self-motivation, and mission drive.

B4Corp’s dedication and care for its employees is reflected in our outstanding compensation and benefits package. B4Corp’s benefits reflect the company’s policy of putting the employees first. B4Corp’s maximum flexibility comp / makeup time policy, along with the company’s cafeteria-style benefit plan that allows employees to maximize their Benefit Dollars, reflects B4Corp’s commitment to its employees.

Compensation

• Outstanding Salaries
  
  

Retirement

• Full Vanguard 401k Plan – Featuring a full scope of investment options – 100% employer matched contribution up to 6% of employee's salary – Ability to max out 401k savings $57k ($63.5k if over 50)
• Employees receive B4Corp phantom stock each year (2-year vesting period)
  
  

Insurance

• Medical – United Health Care (UHC) (multiple plan options)
• Dental – United Concordia (UC) Flex Plan
• Vision – Vision Service Plan Insurance Co (VSP) Signature Plans
• Mutual of Omaha short-term disability (60% of salary up to $2,000.00/week)
• Mutual of Omaha long-term disability (60% of salary up to $10,000.00/month)
• Mutual of Omaha life insurance ($200,000.00)
  
  

Employee Referral Bonus

• Refer a friend or a coworker and receive $3,000 per year for every year the person works for B4CORP
  
  

Paid Time Off (PTO)

• Seven weeks of leave per year (including ten federal holidays)
• Flexible work schedule with comp time (with customer approval)
  
  

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