Lead Facility Network Comm Project

I2X Technologies is seeking a Lead Facility Network Comm Project Engineer* to support ongoing activities for a customer in Boulder, CO. This position will be on-site and will require an active *TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a CI Polygraph.

This customer-facing position requires a self-starter that can work independently and as part of a team and possesses strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills. Experience in working with cross functional Government SETAs, FFRDCs, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Capability Integration Development (CID) team members is a plus. There is a minimum onsite support requirement for M-F during core business hours of 9-3pm MT. Occasional/infrequent after hours/weekend support may be required

Responsibilities:

• Lead site surveys, technical interchange meetings, and design reviews to collaborate with multiple tenants and external comm providers to identify requirements, risks, and dependencies that drive new or upgrade designs
• Leverage technical experience and in-depth knowledge of the facility communications infrastructure to facilitate, integrate, and test new tenant connections and ensure they meet levied requirements
• Manage, maintain, and troubleshoot existing circuits and respond rapidly to planned or unplanned events
• Analyze existing comm circuits and strategize ways to improve bandwidth and performance to meet growing tenant requirements
• Document facility comm systems and maintain detailed records using configuration management processes
• Facilitate communication between multiple onsite tenants and external comm providers to ensure solutions and requirements are aligned
• Serve as primary facility POC for external comms for anomalies or issues requiring attention or escalation
• Facilitate tracking, stakeholder status updates, and closure updates to external communications efforts
• Perform configuration management oversight and documentation for external communications network environments
• Serve as the program representative on technical approval boards for external comm related items
• Collaborate with tenants and external comm providers on outages, testing, upgrades, impacts, risks, mitigation, status, and reporting in conjunction with planned or unplanned events
• Work with tenants and comm providers on external network comm architecture, design, and requirements
• Identify and provide briefings to stakeholders regarding requirements and scope for external comm efforts
• Provide tenant cyber security teams with requested artifacts to support external comm related cyber tasking to include but not limited to IATT, ATC, and ATO efforts
• Facilitate onsite circuit installs and troubleshooting efforts for new and existing comm connections
• Track, manage, and provide facility bandwidth metrics to all tenants for design consideration
• Primary management and technical responsibilities for entire facility ISP solution
• Conduct and analyze data captures to obtain network performance information
• Configure, implement, and test/troubleshoot crypto devices
• Develop and maintain facility network and equipment operating procedures
• Provide solution guidance for tech refreshes and environment baseline builds

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in enterprise network systems within DoD, Intelligence Community, or other national security environments
• At least 5 years of experience integrating solutions into operational classified environments.
• Experience leading cross functional teams to achieve strategic objectives
• Knowledge of dynamic routing protocols such BGP or OSPF
• Knowledge of communication methods, principles, protocols and concepts (e.g., crypto, mesh network, sftp) that support the network infrastructure
• Knowledge of capabilities and applications of network equipment
• Knowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies
• Ability to review rack layout diagram and identify network equipment
• Knowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption)
• Knowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management
• Knowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]
• Knowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup)