Network Engineer IV

IT Veterans is looking for a Network Engineer IV to support our mission-driven team. This role requires an active TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph. The ideal candidate brings a strong background in advanced network engineering, system design, and requirements analysis, particularly in a DoD or Intelligence Community environment.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, document, and implement system specifications, network architectures, and integration/test strategies.

• Contribute to risk assessment efforts and develop mitigation strategies to ensure project success.

• Uphold quality assurance standards and ensure service performance goals are consistently achieved.

• Analyze and evaluate mission-related change requests (RFCs/CRQs), providing technical recommendations and cost assessments.

• Support full lifecycle telecommunications efforts, from concept through design, implementation, and performance analysis.

• Translate customer CRQs into engineered network solutions and oversee their implementation.

• Serve as a technical lead for assigned initiatives, providing subject matter expertise and guidance to stakeholders.

• Review and provide input on new action items and coordinate issue resolution with appropriate teams.

• Apply structured methods to gather, analyze, and validate requirements through interviews, document reviews, workflow analysis, and site visits.

• Create requirement specifications and models (e.g., diagrams) that meet established standards and ensure completeness, consistency, and clarity.

• Maintain traceability of requirements across project phases and track their status through review cycles.

• Identify requirement gaps or errors and develop formal response statements for resolution.

• Support network monitoring, traffic analysis, and bandwidth optimization efforts to meet performance and availability objectives.

• Research emerging network and communications technologies to recommend improvements for scalability, reliability, and standardization.

• Prepare and maintain detailed network architecture diagrams.

• Ensure all engineering efforts comply with security policies, processes, and government regulations.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field; in lieu of a degree, four (4) additional years of relevant experience may be substituted.

• At least eight (8) years of professional experience in network engineering or a related field.

• Active DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNP (or equivalent) certifications.

• Proven experience within a DoD and/or Intelligence Community environment is highly desired.

• Current TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph.