Network Engineer (Dpad)

Description:

GES is seeking a Network Engineer to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD.

Program Summary:

The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA’s enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery analysis and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet.

Basic Qualifications: 

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 12-15 years' experience or Master's degree with 10-13 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).

• Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vender certification accepted upon review).

• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.

• Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure

• Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.

• Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.

• Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.

• Heavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.

• Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.

• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.

• Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.

• Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.

• Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant important to the organization/project.

• Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and

Responsibilities: 

• Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.