Position Summary
The client is looking for a Network Engineer Level 1 to assist in the installation and maintenance of network communications, configure various network devices and services, and troubleshoot network issues within established guidelines.
Essential Job Functions
• Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.
• Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information.
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
• Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture.
• Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and methodologies.
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components.
• Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements.
• Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.
Minimum Required Qualifications
• Due to the nature of this position and the information that employees will be required to access; U.S. Citizenship is required.
• Bachelor’s degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Systems, Engineering Science, Engineering Management, or related discipline and five (5) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support and training commensurate with network engineering curriculums; or a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information Security Systems Engineering, or related discipline and three (3) years of relevant professional experience providing Network Engineering support.
• Seven (7) additional years of relevant experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree, making the total experience requirement twelve (12) years in Network Engineering without a degree.
• Certifications: An Information Assurance Technical Level 1 baseline certification as defined by DoD Directive 8570.01-M is required.
• Required Security Clearance: TS/SCI w/Full Scope Poly.