Join a leading federal defense contractor on a mission-critical program supporting Satellite Ground Systems. This is your chance to design and build enterprise networks that directly support national security operations, working alongside a talented cross-functional team on high-visibility deployments.

This role also requires travel up to 50%. Expect travel needs to be in surges during times of site equipment deployments.

Primary duties:

- Documents network plans and designs, installs components, and configures services to meet project requirements.
- Analyze network topologies, traffic, and capacity requirements for monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting during events.
- Between project execution events, and as part of the network team, responsible for operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting of networks of varying classifications, to include implementing security configurations, performing network diagnostics, identifying required corrective actions, and documenting changes in a clear and concise manner.
- Physically install devices in equipment racks and user workspaces.
- Position requires extensive work at a computer in an office environment with additional work possible in a raised floor computing environment.
- Position may require extensive travel to deployment sites in US and abroad (US Passport required)

Required Skills

- Must be US Citizen due to work being performed
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Engineering, or a related Science or Technology (provided it is a Science degree, e.g., Bachelors of Science - Information technology) or Mathematics field, plus a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience; or Master's degree plus a minimum of 3 years of relevant experience.
- Juniper Networks Certified Administrator (JNCIA-Junos, JNCIPis preferred or Cisco CCNA certification, CCNP preferred
- Experience integrating and configuring switches, routers, firewalls and gateways in data communications systems with IP v4 and associated TCP and UDP protocols preferred
- Strong written skills to include development and maintenance of documentation for network, system, operations, etc.
- Flexible to travel up to 50% during times of site equipment deployments in US and abroad (US Passport required).
- Proficiency with Juniper SRX-series of firewall devices
- Experience with vulnerability scanning, hardening, and resolution of findings
- Possess experience in at least two (2) of the following topics with proven demonstrated experience within the past five (5) years:
1. One (1) year experience as a computer systems manager/operator on Microsoft or LINUX based computing environments, employing Windows Server 2012 (or newer), client Windows 7 (or newer), and LINUX operating systems;
2. One (1) year experience managing and working on local area network (LAN) administration, operation, and architecture with a minimum of 30 client systems;
- Specific working experience of management of a mixture of Windows and LINUX computing environments;
- Must be familiar with virtualization techniques - simulating a hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or network resources.
- Familiarity with public cloud computing networking and services, including AWS
- Familiarity with VMware vSphere and virtual machines
- Familiarity with Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system