Network Engineer

SAIC - McLean, VA

Full-time

McLean, VA

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The lead Network Engineer will play a crucial role in overseeing the delivery of integrated security solutions and maintaining network connectivity across multiple domains within the National Intelligence Program. This position involves ensuring redundancy in network configurations, providing technical analysis, and supporting the digital modernization efforts of the organization.

Responsibilities

• Provide technical analysis and subject matter expertise to support, build, configure, operate, and maintain specific network and system management infrastructure.
• Ensure network connectivity, traffic flow, redundancy (failover), and network security.
• Maintain current sites and future cooperative sites, increasing overall reliability and streamlining design and integration where appropriate.
• Reduce operations and maintenance costs associated with maintaining solutions hosted within the Operations Center.
• Maintain necessary training, test, and integration equipment for integration and regression testing, validation, and troubleshooting.
• Maintain configuration management of all hosted or managed network solutions.
• Design, operate, and maintain equipment and network paths for storage area network services and off-site backup services.
• Monitor and report on bandwidth capacity, availability, and projections.
• Develop and maintain detailed drawings and appropriate documentation of all devices within the supported architecture and configurations of network equipment.
• Implement upgrades to existing network architecture, troubleshoot network anomalies, and deploy and install network equipment both locally and to remote locations.
• Work with System Administrators to ensure overall system functionality and design and document future network architecture.

Requirements

• Active TS/SCI with polygraph.
• Bachelor's degree and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Master's degree and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.
• 10+ years systems engineering and systems integration experience.
• Experience working on complex systems across multiple domains.
• Working knowledge of Cisco IOS and enterprise-level tools and network products such as firewalls, routers, switches, VPN, and network and security protocols.
• Knowledge of networking protocols (IP, TCP, UDP, etc.).
• Knowledge of enterprise system monitoring tools such as Nagios or Solar Winds.
• Ability to work on occasional surge support or shift hours as needed.

Nice-to-haves

• Familiarity with PL5 implementation and systems.
• Experience with programming or scripting languages as applied to test development and automation.
• Linux and virtualization experience.

Benefits

• Ongoing application acceptance with no deadline for submission.