Title:  Lead, Network Systems Engineering

Job Title: Lead, Network Systems Engineering

Job Code: 38197

Job Location: Greenville, TX

Schedule: 9/80 Employees work 9 out of every 14 days – totaling 80 hours worked – and have every other Friday off

Job Description:

The Lead, Systems - Network Engineer (NE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification, and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and/or subsystems. The Lead NE is part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne communication platforms. 

Essential Functions:

• Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance.
• Assist in the design and development of physical and logical network architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capabilities across multiple security domains.
• Design robust and scalable network solutions to meet business requirements.
• Implement network changes and upgrades according to project plans.
• Maintain networks (both LAN, MAN & WAN) connecting airborne and ground systems via terrestrial and Beyond Line of Sight (BLOS) circuits.
• Translate the voice of the customer into system-level requirements.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues, i.e., BGP flapping, .and network instability.
• Monitor network performance and ensure network reliability and availability.
• Perform requirement traceability methods and purposes, to reduce risk and improve project outcomes.
• Assist and/or perform systems engineering trade studies
• Assist in the evaluation of trade studies for accuracy and completeness
• Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements.
• Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system design.
• Review and evaluate diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements.
• Develop and execute network test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements.
• Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical network information to non-technical professionals.
• Collaborate with multiple engineering disciplines to design a cohesive, credible multi-security domain network and integrate the resulting design in a MIL-STD based development environment.
• Prepare and maintain detailed network documentation.
• Generate reports on network performance, issues, and project progress.
• Willingness to travel.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 9 years of prior relevant experience.
• Graduate Degree and a minimum of 7 years of prior related experience.
• In lieu of a degree, there is a minimum of 13 years of prior related experience.
• Demonstrated knowledge and experience in network (LAN/WAN) design incorporating industry standard security best practices; NIST framework.
• Demonstrated network engineering experience including IP addressing, switching and routing, VLANs, VPNs, video teleconferencing, VoIP telephony, and LANs/WANs.
• Demonstrated knowledge of IP Multicast, Class of Service (CoS), Layer 3 VPNs, and Layer 2 VPNs.
• Demonstrated experience in routing protocols including MPLS, BGP, OSPF, PTP.
• Demonstrated experience with networking hardware interface control documents (ICDs).
• Demonstrated experience in configuring and troubleshooting routing equipment from major vendors (e.g., Cisco, Juniper).
• Demonstrated configuration, integration, and troubleshooting of routers, switches, voice, and video teleconferencing equipment.
• Demonstrated experience developing, authoring, and implementing software and system test plans in a team environment.
• Demonstrated experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead small test teams through an entire build cycle.
• Demonstrated experience with testing, integrating, verifying software and/or hardware.

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Secret or TS/SCI strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated understanding of Modular Open Systems Approach (MOSA) and best practices.
• Demonstrated experience with open standards/interfaces such as components communicating through non-proprietary, consensus-based standards (e.g., VITA/VPX, SOSA, DDS).
• Demonstrated understanding of tactical data links, including beyond line of sight (BLOS) systems.
• Experience with digital backbone and nodal access units is a big plus.
• Current Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP).
• Security +
• Network +
• Juniper Networks Certified Internet Provider – Router and Switching Professional (JNCIP-SP).
• Arista Certified Professional (ACE-P).
• Palo Alto Networks Certified Network Security Administrator (PCNSA).
• Experience with advanced networking such as software defined networking (SDN).
• Certification and Accreditation process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate on government networks.
• DODAF knowledge.

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