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Network Engineer - CCNA, Ft. Meade

Jacobs and Careers
Fort Meade, MD Full Time
POSTED ON 12/29/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 2/20/2026

Amentum is seeking a Sr. Network Engineer to join our federal program at Ft Meade, MD supporting DISA, the Intel and Cyber division.

For the recently awardedNew Task Order, we have assembled a team of highly skilled network, systems, and unified communications engineers to support a program that provides critical network capabilities to the Department of Defense. This team is responsible for the rapid development, testing, validation, deployment, and integration of a pilot capability providing voice and video services. This modern multi-level secure conferencing capability will provide voice, video, chat, and presentation across multiple networks and security domains (e.g., NIPRNet, SIPRNet, JWICS, etc.)

Responsibilities:

  • Perform as senior-level contributor, able to operate and troubleshoot autonomously and independently, whether customer facing or with other engineering team members
  • Design, build and troubleshoot network and network security architecture
  • Analyze and develop new hardware requirements and prepare specifications for hardware acquisitions
  • Provide engineering escalation support for all network and network security operations activities including: LAN/WAN operations and troubleshooting, troubleshooting network automation and tooling, and troubleshooting network security appliances
  • Coordinate with the Information Assurance Security Engineers to validate all designs against required security controls to maintain Authority to Operate of each enclave; implement and maintain DISA STIG requirements
  • Create, review, and update technical documentation in support of integration projects
  • Provide full implementation documentation and templates for all phases of deployment and sustainment of network equipment and services
  • Identify and diagnose complex performance, security, and technical issues

Requirements:

  • Active Top Secret Clearance with SCI or Eligibility to obtain SCI
  • Bachelors Degree in an IT-related discipline plus 10 years of related work experience
  • Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification
  • Experience building, troubleshooting and testing the following; IS-IS and/or OSPF networks, MP-BGP underlays and overlays, MPLS networks: RSVP-TE, LDP, and SR-MPLS, routing policy and redistribution, DMVPN and/or SD-WAN, testing different flavors of STP
  • Experience standing up and troubleshooting new circuits with the ability to fault isolate issues to CE equipment, demarc and/or carrier
  • Experience building, troubleshooting and testing network security technologies including but not limited to: SSH, WAN MACsec, IPSec, RADIUS, TACACS , firewall NAT and security policies and end-point security
  • Experience with MS Office applications such as Excel, Word, Outlook, and SharePoint
  • Experience with standing up and troubleshooting new circuits, with the ability to triangulate problem area to CE equipment, demarc and/or carrier
  • Experience with building, troubleshooting and testing network security technologies including, but not limited to: SSH, WAN MACsec, IPSec, RADIUS, TACACS , firewall NAT and security policies and end-point security

Ability to travel up to 20%

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Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $170,000.00 - $199,000.00 per year

Benefits:

  • 401(k) matching
  • Dental insurance
  • Flexible spending account
  • Health insurance
  • Health savings account
  • Paid time off
  • Parental leave
  • Vision insurance

Application Question(s):

  • Do you have experience building, troubleshooting and testing the following:

o IS-IS and/or OSPF networks
o MP-BGP underlays and overlays
o MPLS networks: RSVP-TE, LDP, and SR-MPLS
o routing policy and redistribution
o DMVPN and/or SD-WAN
o testing different flavors of STP

License/Certification:

  • CCNA (Required)

Security clearance:

  • Top Secret (Required)

Work Location: In person

Salary : $170,000 - $199,000

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