Network Engineer Tier 3

About the position

Team CACI is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support an Intelligence Community customer's diverse network infrastructure, including CAN, LAN, CORE, and WAN network. The role involves designing, implementing, troubleshooting, and maintaining complex IT networks, encompassing daily operations, monitoring, and problem resolution for all network architecture and devices. The successful candidate will be responsible for providing high-level technical expertise and leadership to junior network engineers. Develop and implement network support processes for CAN/LAN/WAN, ensuring compliance with relevant standards. Design, analyze, and maintain complex IT networks, from requirements gathering to installation and troubleshooting. Evaluate network performance, consult on improvements, and make technology recommendations to senior management. Experience with large-scale enterprise networks in a fast-paced environment is essential.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot complex network issues and provide timely resolutions
• Provide problem identification, diagnosis, troubleshooting, and resolution of incidents and problems.
• Provide support for the escalation and communication of status to the company management and customer.
• Provide support for the dispatch system and hardware problems and remains involved in the resolution process
• Isolate and resolve hardware and software problems involving the applications, the operating system, the hardware, the communications infrastructure, or any combination thereof
• Troubleshoot, maintain integrity and configure network components along with implementing operating systems enhancements to improve reliability and performance
• Integrate new technologies into new and existing systems including the transition and migration of corporate systems.
• Supports hardware infrastructure site surveys, planning, and design.
• Provide transition planning and support services that accelerate delivery timelines, reduce operational risk and ensure service continuity during transition.
• Provide transition planning and support for the migration of existing services between environments, migration of users from existing service platforms to new service offerings and transition of services into operations
• Maintain documentation for network configurations, procedures, and incidents to ensure compliance with best practices and industry standards.
• Works individually and actively participates on integrated teams
• Understands and applies more advanced concepts and processes to daily activities.
• Assists Lead Services Engineers in implementing their activities.
• Can perform all tasks of lower-level technicians or specialists.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or equivalent work experience
• 10+ years of related work experience
• TS/SCI w/ poly is required
• Advanced knowledge of networking protocols (TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, etc.)
• Expertise in configuring and managing enterprise-level network equipment (Cisco, Juniper, etc.)
• Strong understanding of network security principles and best practices
• Proficiency in network monitoring and analysis tools
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Strong communication and leadership abilities

Nice-to-haves

• Certifications such as JNCIA, JNCIP, CCNA, CCNP, or similar are highly preferred
• Familiarity with ITIL framework and service management best practices

Benefits

• Healthcare
• Wellness programs
• Financial benefits
• Retirement plans
• Family support
• Continuing education
• Time off benefits