Network Engineer NEW

Shee Atika Government Services - Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD

About the position

The Network Engineer position at Shee Atiká Government Services (SGS) is a full-time hybrid role that requires occasional travel between IT support facilities. The role serves as a technical lead for networking engineering projects, providing oversight and ensuring compliance with technical standards. The engineer will be responsible for various networking tasks, including switch configuration, troubleshooting, and supporting wireless infrastructure, while also managing operations and lifecycle support for networking systems.

Responsibilities

• Switch configuration.
• Troubleshooting ports/protocols with protocol analyzer.
• Troubleshooting 802.1x authentication issues and dynamic VLAN allocation using Cisco ISE.
• Supporting wireless infrastructure.
• Familiarity with datacenter communication equipment/infrastructure.
• Troubleshooting routing issues.
• Windows application understanding and troubleshooting.
• Assist in the support, configuration, and sustainment of all site networking activities including data center layouts, hardware configurations and inter-building connectivity.
• Support all technical phases of networking system sustainment.
• Perform daily data center operations and checks to ensure uptime and upkeep of all data center IT equipment, reporting all issues to IMD government management.
• Manage operations and lifecycle support, including but not limited to software upgrade requirements, outages, capacity planning, rack and floor space management, server management, and logical access controls management.
• Formulate logical designs of system problems, devise and implement procedures for solutions to those problems.
• Complete and maintain operational and technical documentation.
• Provides technical oversight for the application of and compliance with DCPH-A technical standards.
• Provides guidance and training for complex networking issues to less experienced team members.
• Provides project work order tracking/regular updates and completes status reports, problem reports, and progress summaries.

Requirements

• Candidate must be US Citizen.
• Candidate must have active DoD Secret Clearance at minimum.
• Candidate must have an active Security+ or other DoD 8570.01 IAT Level II.
• Candidate must have an active CCNA.
• Candidate must have an active MCSA or MCSE or obtain Microsoft Certified: Windows Server Hybrid Administrator Associate within 60 days of hire date.
• 5+ years hands-on technical experience with supporting the networking side of an IT environment.

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering or other business-related field.
• Expertise in developing and executing disaster recovery procedures.
• Skilled in ensuring all Windows environments are fully operational, secure, within capacity and maintain redundancy.
• Trained to provide technical support and recommended technical solutions to the government and less skilled team members.
• Skilled at all technical phases of networking system sustainment.
• Capable of documenting and implementing new and ongoing business processes that specify special handling procedures for excluded systems to minimize risk to critical mission processes.
• Equipped to provide operational support for all LAN hardware (routers and switches) and software.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Outstanding benefits
• Opportunities for advancement/career growth