Senior Network Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Engineer

Location: Fort Meade, MD (Hybrid)

Clearance required by the project: Secret or Top Secret 

Certification: CompTIA SEC+ CE 

Customer- DISA 

CompQsoft  is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our DISA program team in  Fort Meade, MD.  This is an exciting key position providing Gateway  Engineering Support which provides end-to-end engineering solutions for  DISN projects.  The Gateway projects includes all variants of DoD  Enterprise Classified Travel Kit (DECTK) gateways, Senior National  Leadership Communications (SNLC), Internet and cloud gateways, customer  interface gateways, and Satellite Communications Gateways.  The engineer  must have a high level of knowledge and experience in the current and  planned gateways in the DISN core and DISN customer gateways including  unclassified and classified voice, video, data, endpoints, and  encryption devices. As  a Senior Network Engineer, you will be responsible for engineering,  testing, implementing, and providing Tier III support for all Gateway  initiatives ensuring mission success. Responsibilities (include, but not limited to):

• Design, build, test, implement and maintain Gateway engineering solutions.
• Design  engineering enhancements, develop engineering change requests and  provide all required documentation in support of Configuration Control  Boards (CCB).
• Provide  technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report,  implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex  DoD networks.
• Support mission partners to satisfy the interoperability requirements.
• Design  architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to  support the total requirements as well as provide for present and future  cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Evaluates  analytically and systematically problems of workflows and network  usage, organization and planning and develops appropriate corrective  action.
• Analyze existing and planned gateway solutions and architectures and make recommendations.
• Configure various routers, switches, firewalls, voice gateways, unified communication managers.
• Utilize  advanced security devices including High Assurance Internet Protocol  Encryptor (HAIPE), crypto ignition keys and SIPRNet hard tokens.
• Apply  system patches, security patches and third-party updates in order to  maintain systems at a high level of performance, availability, and  security.
• Develop detailed test plans, test reports, implementation plans, configuration guides and other technical documentation.
• Deliver  timely resolution and document troubleshooting procedures in order to  mitigate impact of issues and improve infrastructure performance.
• Perform incident response tasks and services restoration.
• Review  security requirements set by DoD agencies for the NIPRNET network  protection; assess and analyze current NIPRNET network architecture;  propose and analyze potential solutions. 
• Review  security threats to the current DoD NIPRNet/Internet gateway IA  infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determines/implements  effective countermeasures IAW established policies, regulations, and  directives.
• Provide support to the Automation Team.
• Provide on-call Tier III support as needed.
• As a Lead Network Engineer, provides daily supervision and direction to staff. 

Experience/Qualifications:

• DoD and/or Government program experience preferred; DISA experience a plus.
• Bachelor's or Master’s degree in a technical discipline with at least 10 years of experience.
• Strong  routing protocols and IP network design experience to include: IPSEC,  BGP, MPLS/RSVP, OSPF, IS-IS, , Multicast, Layer-2/Layer-3 Virtual  Private Network (VPN), Carrier servicing Carrier (CsC).
• Unified capabilities experience to include Cisco voice gateways, unified communication managers and SIP trunking.
• Experience with Type 1 HAIPE encryption devices, secure tokens, etc.
• Laboratory  testing experience using tools such as Wireshark, Kiwi-Syslog,  SNMP/Traps, for testing/troubleshooting network traffic.
• Working knowledge of Microsoft Office Tools; specifically, PowerPoint, Word & Excel
• Excellent communication (verbal and written), effective leadership, and interpersonal skills