Job Description
Network Engineer Location: Fort Meade, MD Hybrid (25% travel)
Work Type: Full Time
Primary Responsibilities: Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.
Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.
Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.
Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.
Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.
Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.
Required Qualifications Bachelor's degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Master's degree with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Specific experience, education and training may be considered in lieu of degree.
Active DoD Secret clearance
Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vender certification accepted upon review).
Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.
Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure
Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.
Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.
Heavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.
Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.
Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.
Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant important to the organization/project.
Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals
Desired Qualifications Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
Demonstrated experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What's Up Gold, or Junos Space.
Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.
Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.
Hands on experience with SD-WAN.
Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.
Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.
Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.
Clearance: Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.
Compensation and Benefits
Salary Range: $115,000-$135,000 (Compensation is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.)
Benefits: Gridiron offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), disability & ADD insurance, life and pet insurance to eligible employees. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Gridiron's benefits programs.
Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.
Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area that supports our clients' missions throughout the United States. Gridiron IT specializes in providing comprehensive IT services tailored to meet the needs of federal agencies. Our capabilities include IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Software Integration & Development, Data Solution & AI, and Enterprise Applications. These capabilities are backed by Gridiron IT's experienced workforce and our commitment to ensuring we meet and exceed our clients' expectations.
Job Tags
Full time, Part time, Work experience placement