Network Engineer 719

Freedom Technology Solutions Groups has an exciting and challenging opportunity available for a Network Engineer supporting an Intelligence Community customer’s wide-area (WAN), local-area (LAN) and campus-area (CAN) networks across multiple security domains.

What You’ll Get to Do:

Focus will be on Network Engineering, new project requirements, and operation and sustainment of existing infrastructure. This position does require at least 25% travel.

• Coordination of system maintenance, monitoring and installation of multiple WAN/LAN environments encompassing multiple specializations, platforms and technologies. 


• Assist with research and implementation of enterprise system-wide network solutions/capabilities/enhancements to support customer business/mission goals and objectives.


• Troubleshoot and resolve network media and components.


• Evaluate and monitor health and performance of the network including hardware and management software.


• Develop and maintain a road map for capabilities, operations, and technologies.


• Assist with development and execution of test plans and supporting documentation of all network configuration upgrades, additions or revisions for customer approval before implementation.


• 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.


• Represent customer requirements in technical exchanges with other government agencies.


• Perform site surveys to new installations and technology refresh.


• Installs, maintains and troubleshoots satellite communications equipment.


• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams.

You’ll Bring These Qualifications:

• Security Clearance: active TS/SCI


• 8+ years related technical experience in Network and Transport technologies, tools, and techniques


• 4+ years’ experience with large-scale enterprise/global networks in a high paced diverse environment


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


• Experience with Juniper, switches, routers, and firewalls. (MX, EX, SRX devices) Cryptographic devices (KG-175G/X, KG-245A/X)


• Experience with Network analysis tools (HP/Microfocus Network Automation and Network Node Manager, Juniper Secure Analytics, Infoblox, Riverbed.)


• Experience with Juniper firewall/VPN equipment (SRX series)


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


• Experience with OSPF, BGP, MPLS, RSVP/LDP L2/3VPNs, VRFs, IKE/IPSec, GRE tunnels, MTU, FTP, Import/Export policies.


• Certifications: IAT II

These Qualifications Would be Nice to Have:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field


• JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, CISCO CCNP, CCVP, CCNA or CCDP (or equivalent)


• ITIL v3 Foundations


• ISC2 CISSP


• CompTIA Security +