NL-25-018 Senior Network Engineer

nLogic is hiring for a Senior Network Engineer to join our team in Huntsville, AL, at the Marshall Space Flight Center. This full-time role involves designing, optimizing, and maintaining a complex enterprise network, resolving escalated network and security issues, and leading technical documentation efforts. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience with network engineering, defense-in-depth principles, and tools like Cisco and Juniper, as well as the ability to mentor junior engineers and support lifecycle sustainment activities. Applicants must be able to obtain a Public Trust and be open to occasional travel and non-standard work hours.

Position Responsibilities

• Provide system and network optimization design, implementation, testing, and maintenance support for a complex enterprise network using industry best practices.
• Resolve escalated network and security support issues (Tier 3)
• Independently conduct network assessments, identify possible vulnerabilities, and recommend/develop solutions to problems found.
• Lead development of network documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Support continuous service improvements (CSI)
• Active participation in Root Cause Analysis for Problem Management activities
• Work with cross-functional teams to plan and execute network upgrades, migrations, and deployments
• Manage vendor relationships, including engagement on Incident Support activities and ensure timely delivery of program deliverables
• Monitoring, capacity planning, backup, and recovery of network equipment.
• Keep up with technological trends. Evaluate and recommend new technologies, tactics, and tools to improve service delivery.
• Mentor and coach junior engineers, including providing training and support as required.
• Provide testing support for the setup, installation, and transition to operations of service infrastructure devices, NMS, and tools
• Function as the primary COOP capability support engineer
• Support lifecycle sustainment and refresh activities
• Utilize the designated ticketing system to document resolution and develop knowledge management artifacts
  
  

Required Skills And Qualifications

• Bachelors degree and 8 years of experience or an associate’s degree with 12 years of experience is required for this role
• Extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security archite4cture, network topology, IT device integrity, and common security elements
• 8 years of 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
• Hands-on experience with standard industry products e.g. Cisco, Juniper, and Ciena
• Effective communicator and able to coordinate network and customer issues with other technical sections
• Strong 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 senior customer management, customer stakeholders, and company management
• Ability to multi-task and respond quickly to real-time dataflow issues
• Ability to work non-standard work hours/shifts
• Knowledge of Network Monitoring tools, e.g. NNMi, Spectrum, MRTG, CACTI
  
  

Preferred Skills And Qualifications

• Experience with Junior route, switch, and security appliances (MX, EX, SRX)
• Experience with Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) implementation and design concepts
• Experience with NNMi configuration and maintenance
• Experience with Splunk
• Experience with change, configuration, and performance management NetOps concepts
• Experience working with Commercial Carrier service providers, e.g., AT&T, Verizon
• Knowledge of Linux
• Current holders of either CCNA, CCNP, or JNCIA certifications
  
  

This is a full-time position located in Huntsville, AL at Marshall Space Flight Center. This position will require occasional travel. Qualified candidates must be able to work non-standard work hours and shifts. Candidates must have or be able to obtain a Public Trust.