Title:  Sr. Specialist, Network Systems Engineer

Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Network Systems Engineering 

Job Code: 28999

Job Location: Greenville, Texas

Schedule: 9/80

This position requires an ACTIVE Secret Clearance with the ability to obtain/maintain Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance, which requires U.S. Citizenship.

Job Description: 

The Senior Specialist, Network Engineer (NE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and or subsystems. The Sr. Specialist 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:

• Assist in the design and development of physical and logical network architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains
• Maintains networks (both LAN & WAN) connecting airborne and ground systems via terrestrial and BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) circuits
• Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements
• Perform requirement traceability methods and purpose
• 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 disciplines of engineering, to design a cohesive creditable multiple security domain network, and integrate the resulting design in a MILSTD based development environment

Qualifications:  

• U.S. Citizenship
• Ability to obtain/maintain a Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance 
• Bachelor’s Degree and minimum 4 years of prior relevant experience. Graduate Degree and a minimum of 2 years of prior related experience. In lieu of a degree, minimum of 8 years of prior related experience.
• Current Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) certification or 4 years equivalent experience.
• Intermediate knowledge and experience in network (LAN/WAN) design incorporating industry standard security best practices; NIST framework
• Intermediate network engineering experience including IP addressing, switching and routing, VLANs, VPNs, video teleconferencing, VoIP telephony, and LANs/WANs
• Intermediate experience in routing protocols including RIP, EGIRP, OSPF, and BGP
• Certification and Accreditation process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate on government networks
• DODAF knowledge
• Configuration, integration, and troubleshooting of routers, switches, voice, and video teleconferencing equipment
• Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills
• Experience developing, authoring, and implementing software and system test plans in a team environment
• Experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead small test teams through an entire build cycle
• Hands-on experience with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware

Preferred Additional Skills:

• Current Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification
• Current Top Secret security clearance
• Experience with Kubernetes deployment/administration
• Experience with SATCOM solutions/protocols
• Experience with HAIPE devices is also a plus
• RedHat Enterprise: Linux
• Experience working with subcontractors and US Government customers
• Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate (ATO) on government networks DODAF knowledge
• Experience working government and/or military programs
• Excellent written, oral communications skills
• Willingness to travel