Network Test Engineer Senior

  LightGrid is Hiring a Network Test Engineer Senior to work at Fort meade, MD, 5 days a week. ACTIVE SECRET Clearance is required. 

Responsibilities: The candidate will be responsible for testing engineering solutions for network initiatives. The candidate will also review engineering designs, implementation plans, and support Tier III activities.

· Provide technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex DoW networks.

· Design engineering enhancements, develop engineering change requests and provide all required documentation in support of Configuration Control Boards (CCB).

· Support mission partners to satisfy the interoperability requirements.

· Evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflows and network usage, organization and planning and develop appropriate corrective action.

· Analyze existing and planned network solutions and architectures and make recommendations.

· Configure various routers, switches, firewalls.

· Utilize advanced security devices including network encryptors.

· Apply system patches, configuration changes, security patches and third-party updates to maintain systems at a high level of performance, availability, and security.

· Develop detailed test plans, test reports, implementation plans, configuration guides and other technical documentation.

· Deliver timely resolution and document troubleshooting procedures to mitigate impact of issues and improve infrastructure performance.

· Perform incident response tasks and services restoration.

· Assess and analyze current network architecture; propose and analyze potential solutions. 

· Review security requirements set by DoW agencies for unclassified network protection.

· Review security threats to the current DoW infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determine effective countermeasures.

· Provide support to the Automation Team.

Provide on-call Tier III support as needed. 

 Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college in a technical discipline, e.g., IT Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science or equivalent 

· Security + certification or equivalent 8570   IAT II certification

 10 years of network systems engineering experience 

· DoW and/or Government program experience preferred.

· Laboratory testing experience using tools such as Wireshark, Kiwi-Syslog, SNMP/Traps, for testing/troubleshooting network traffic.

· Multiple network types, primarily Internet Protocol (IP) and Software-Defined Wide Area Networking (SD-WAN).

· Routing protocols and IP network services experience to include BGP, MPLS, OSPF, IS-IS, Layer-2/Layer-3 Virtual Private Network (VPN), IPsec.

Hardware/software interface equipment integration/setup (chassis, card, module, and optics) and power requirements of each of the following devices to integrate for transport: Cisco and Juniper routers. 

· Ability to work along with no or little assistance to complete equipment testing.

· Ability to work in a group to achieve the common goal to resolve complex network issues. 

Ability to work directly with the prime contractor project team. 

· Strong written and verbal communication skills are required to collaborate test plans and reports with Government and equipment vendors.

Knowledge and experience with Microsoft office suite to include Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio technical drawing program.