Use the established change management process to provide changes in response to policies, security, or customer requests for network architecture design.

• Ensure compliance with directives for ports and protocols and engineer proxy capabilities required by the customer.
• Evaluate and engineer network solutions based upon customer requirements.
• Enable a highly available network infrastructure capable of meeting strict uptime requirements.
• Engineer and deploy an IPv6 network in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) directives.
• Attend meetings with customers to collect information for designing network changes and to provide network architecture standards.
• Provide technical writing support to create Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), and ensure all documents and reports are written and formatted properly.
• Support enterprise standards in accordance with corporate direction to include: (1) Support documentation development, (2) Lead technical working groups, (3) conduct product evaluations, (4) develop recommendations, and (5) conduct pre-implementation activities.
• Provide technology insertion for increased automation and streamlined operations and support enterprise initiatives to comply with DoD security strategies.
• Support design, test, installation, integration, and migration strategies. Provide project management support (such as scheduling and quality assurance) for implementation of processor, communications, and storage workloads for the enterprise.
• Implement customer processing requirements into the processing environment consistent with best practices.
• Ensure migration and implementation efforts conform to the physical and logical infrastructure and security configurations (such as Access Control List (ACLs) and deny-by-default)
• Ensure migration and implementation efforts are integrated with the Information Assurance network.

Required Qualifications:

• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II Certification (i.e. Security+) required
• Cisco ACI experience required
• Design experience required
• 5+ years of experience performing similar network engineering tasks, preferably in a DoD or military environment
• Cisco ASA, Cisco Spine and Leaf architecture, F5 Enterprise devices, Bluecoat devices, Juniper devices, and/or LTM/GTM experience preferred
• Bachelor’s Degree preferred

MUST have an active Secret Clearance (or higher) AND IAT Level II certification (Security+ is the most common, but CCNA, GICSP, GSEC, SSCP, CASP, CISA, CISSP, GCED, and GCIH all also meet the requirement) – NO exceptions