Enterprise Network Engineer

Overview

As the Enterprise Network Project Engineer, you will perform research, requirements analysis, design, installation, documentation, troubleshooting, and sustainment of local- and wide-area network hardware and services. You will apply your expertise to develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation. Your contributions will have the opportunity to make a significant impact and contributions to the existing success of the TCS Team through the development of risk management and mitigation strategy, maintaining compliance with QA standards, as well as ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded. You will leverage experience in reviewing Mission related change requirements such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs) to determining impacts on Transport activities across the Enterprise while providing technical solutions and cost impacts.

Responsibilities

More About This Role:

• Focus will be on Requirements Analysis, Development and Implementation

• Engineer and implement solutions for Projects based on customer Change Requests 

• Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects.

• Provide recommendations on newly submitted actions items.

• Coordinate issues with the appropriate owners/organizations.

• Provide concurrence on decisions or recommendations by assigned suspense.

• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis and test/workflow analysis.

• Write requirement specs according to standard templates.

• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements.

• Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams).

• Perform requirement analysis and verification, ensuring requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and they conform to standards.

• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the review process.

• Identify requirement errors/defects and write response statements to appropriate owners/organizations.

• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives.

• Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance capacity, performance and reliability of the network.

• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization and industry best practices

• Follows all Customer network security processes and procedures, ensures compliance with all Government policies.

• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.

Qualifications

Clearance:      

• TS/SCI (current)

• Ability to successfully pass and maintain a Government Polygraph (post-hire requirement)

 

Education & Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in a Technical Field (Additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree)

• Ten (10) years of related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques

• Five (5) years of experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high paced diverse environment

Skills:

• Advanced-level skills in Network design, engineering, and implementation. Creation of network related Rough Order Magnitude (ROM) equipment lists and costing

• Ability to estimate labor needed to complete planning, engineering, procurement, and installation of complex Enterprise Transport solutions

• Understanding of DISA and IC standards and processes

• Excellent writing and communication skills, including the ability to develop analytical documents and present oral presentations to senior/executive management – Interpersonal skills, to help negotiate priorities

• An understanding of how to practice requirements engineering according to several hardware/software development life cycles in a team environment.

• Knowledge of product management concepts and how Enterprise network products are positioned and implemented

• Ability to work weekends and evening hours as needed

• Understanding and experience with the DoD Architecture Framework and other key DoD network architecture and strategic planning instructions

• Experience with CISCO and Juniper: switches, routers, as well as Cryptographic devices, IPSEC.

• Experience with Network analysis tools (CISCO Network Analysis Modules, Solar Winds Network Management, OPNET NetOne, HP Network Node Manager, etc.)

• Experience with CISCO and Juniper firewall/VPN devices

• Experience with supporting IP services to connect to NIPRNET, SIPRNET and JWICS (IPv4, VPN, IPv6, Multicast, QOS, SDN, SNMP, VOIP, VTC, etc.)

• Experience with BGP, OSPF, and MPLS.

 

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field

• CISCO CCNP, CCVP, CCNA or CCDP (or equivalent)

• ITIL v3 Foundations 

• ISC2 CISSP

Equal employment opportunity employer:

 

All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. 

 

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