IAP - INGENUITY AND PURPOSE

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As a leading international services company for more than 65 years, IAP provides a broad spectrum of services and solutions to U.S. and international government agencies, and organizations.  A world-class leader in providing seasoned program management, IAP leverages and integrates its capabilities – IT & Communications, Aviation & Engineering Solutions, Power Solutions, Infrastructure & Logistics - to provide safe, innovative, and reliable solutions to meet customers' diverse and complex challenges.  With 2,500 team members, IAP operates in more than 110 locations in 27 countries worldwide and maintains offices in the Washington D.C. area, Florida, Maryland, Oklahoma, the United Kingdom, and the Middle East. 

SUMMARY:

The Senior IT Network Engineer Solution Architect designs, engineers, and maintains nation-wide enterprise networks to provide secure and reliable communications. The Engineer/Architect analyzes customer requirements and applies industry leading technology, methodology, and architecture in the development of detailed solutions. Network Security must be expertly incorporated into all aspects of protocols utilized, design and analysis of new or existing complex IT solutions primarily for U.S. Government customers.  These solutions may include providing visibility, oversight, and management of mission critical network infrastructure spanning multiple sites and countries; troubleshooting inter- and intra- theater links; or researching and deploying emerging technologies to optimize networks, including the use of software defined networking and network virtualization.   

This position may include being involved with the operations and maintenance of large campus LAN networks, multiple datacenter locations, multi-site layer 2 LAN extensions for COOP/DR, and BGP/MPLS based WAN supporting over 100 remote sites. Network devices include equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Brocade, F5, A10, Palo Alto, Harris/LOS microwave, VSAT/SATCOM equipment, CWDM, DWDM, STM/SONET and other technology.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

Provides network solutions, proposals, and engineering support for the design, configuration, implementation, operational management, and troubleshooting of enterprise networks, including network monitoring and cybersecurity controls.  This includes conducting Enterprise level Network Engineering and IP address/vlan management for the theater.

Demonstrated competence with the following protocols and technologies: Routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, DMVPN, MPLS) and Multicast PIM/SM protocols. Switching protocols (Spanning Tree, MSTP, PVST, RPVST+, MAB, VRF, VLAN and private VLAN). DMVPN technologies (NHRP phase 1-3, per tunnel QoS, ISAKMP/IKE, IPSEC, EZVPN and site-to-site VPN). IP services (AAA, QoS, IP SLA, EEM, Syslog, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP and NTP). Network management tools and protocols (NetFlow, SNMPv3,  Cisco ACS / ISE).

• Oversees administration of Wide Area Network/Local Area Network Systems Infrastructure including BGP/MPLS topologies, IP subnets, VLANs, HCLOS / Microwave LOS / Wireless Systems and directs subordinate engineering and circuit actions teams.
• Leads the engineering design, testing, and deployment of new technologies.  Develops and executes detailed plans for infrastructure improvements, lifecycle replacement, firmware updates, application of new STIGs and security policies.
• Collaborates with personnel throughout multiple locations in order to ensure optimized, stable, and secure network transport supporting the Active Directory Domain, Exchange Messaging environment, and collaborative systems like CUCM/VTC used in a mission critical environment.
• Configures and troubleshoots CUCM trunks, SIP gateways, dial plans, PVDM transcoding, and CUCM publisher and subscriber systems.
• Works closely with Systems, Virtualization, and Cyber Security Engineers as the network transport is a common element supporting interaction across all areas.
• Works with supervisors, foreign and US military leaders, DoD civilians, other contract entities and team members, ensuring network performance for supported organization(s).
• Leads on-site and assists when necessary (either remotely or in person) in the event of serious network outages and service disruptions.
• Develops and maintains documentation for solutions.

QUALIFICATIONS:                                     

Maintains DoD 8570.01-M compliance for IAT Level III.

Demonstrates at least five (5) years’ enterprise-level experience collectively in each of the following protocols and technologies areas:

• Switching protocols (Spanning Tree, MSTP, PVST, RPVST+, MAB, VPC, VSS, VLAN and private VLAN). Routing protocols (OSPF, EIGRP, DMVPN, MPLS, VRF) and Multicast protocols.
• Understanding of PIM-SM/Multicast routing, rally points, IGMP and methods for IP Video distribution over multicast networks is desired.
• IP services (QOS, IP SLA, EEM, Syslog, HSRP, VRRP, GLBP and NTP).
• AAA systems (Cisco Secure ACS / ISE), TACACS and application of X.509 device certificates for authentication and network access control (NAC) systems such as 802.1X.
• Network management tools and protocols (NetFlow, SNMPv3, ACS). Solarwinds experience required with demonstrated ability to operate and maintain management servers.
• HW experience with networking equipment from multiple vendors and Cisco ASR, ASA, and Nexus, Palo Alto, JunOS, Sophos, Microwave Wireless Bridging, and VSAT systems.
• Thorough understanding of OSI model and ability to troubleshoot various applications at all levels as networking extends into the virtual datacenter environment.
• Must be experienced with IP subnetting including VLSM methods.
• Load Balancers/ADC’s (A10/F5) experience is desired.
• SSLi Break/Inspect (Gigamon/A10/F5) is desired.
• VMware/Nutanix networking experience desired in addition to experience with SAN transport and connectivity requirements.

LICENSES & CERTIFICATIONS:

CCIE preferred.

KNOWLEDGE & SKILLS:

Fluent with Microsoft Office Suite (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Visio).

PHYSICAL DEMANDS/WORKING ENVIRONMENT:

• Must be medically qualified for deployment.
• Must be able to lift heavy objects > 50lbs.

TRAVEL:

International travel may be required.

SECRET CLEARANCE:

U.S. SECRET. 

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