Network Engineer (TS/SCI)

Description

  LightGrid is looking for a Network Engineer with a TS/SCI clearance to work at our Fort Meade, MD Client site. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Network      integration, testing, security engineering, and implementation      configuration support.
• Collaborate      with network architects to define and/or continuously improve STIG      compliant configuration baselines, versioning, and compliance tracking.
• Test      and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
• Assist      with the development of SOPs/TTPs.
• Support      Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
• Support      system performance tuning and enhancements.
• Create      and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP).
• Support      tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
• Active      participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management      activities.
• Participate      in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and      engineering providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to      be deployed into production.
• Perform      technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, and load      balancers.
• Provide      knowledge of network engineering and operations, large scale      enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network      Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities. Perform      technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches,      security solutions, and WANX.

Requirements

  BS      degree and 4 to 8 years of prior relevant experience or      a Masters with 2 to 6 years of prior relevant experience.      (Additional years of related work experience may be substituted for a      degree at the Hiring Manager's discretion).

• Effective      written and oral communication and problem-solving skills
• Active      DoD clearance at the Top-Secret/SCI level
• Security      Certification or other DOD 8570 IAT Level II Certification within a      certain timeframe after starting if not starting with one when hired.
• Knowledge      of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security architecture, network      topology, IT device integrity, and common security elements.
• 4      years’ experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including      extensive routing and switching experience such as one or more of the      following: MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching      protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast      protocols and emerging network technologies.
• An      understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
• Experienced      and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents, analyses, and      reports.
• Experience      developing and presenting technical information to team lead.
• Hands-on      experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise      network routing, switching and firewall/security devices.
• Ability      to travel up to 10% OCONUS travel.