Mid-Level Network Engineer (Cleared)

Overview

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Kentro is hiring for a cleared Network Engineer to support National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

Location: Onsite, Springfield, VA

Salary Range: The salary for this position is between $150,000 - $160,000 annually. Factors affecting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate.

Responsibilities

• Analyze users' requirements, concept of operations documents, and high-level system architectures to develop network requirements specifications.
• Provide application performance data and analysis to enable and ensure the end user experience on operational networks.
• Support performance tuning network and application parameters for all sites and applicable program activities in accordance with mission and user objectives and priorities.
• Provide network performance engineering data in accordance with coordinated performance tuning standards and outcomes.
• Provide technical reports to include, but not limited to, defining metrics and operational procedures for addressing multiple network, server, and application outages. (Twice per quarter)
• Provide data and analysis for support of Tier 3 Operations and Maintenance activities for monitoring end user experience and troubleshooting application performance issues. (Once per quarter)
• Coordinate with internal and external team members to ensure that network performance meets user requirements, is responsive to crisis requirements, and is prepared to accept new and modified system capabilities, data, and services.
• Perform analysis, optimization, and requirement verification to measure, maintain, and enhance network and application performance across the IT infrastructure, including planned or existing cloud-based implementation for both internal and external users.
• Maintain awareness of industry/professional standards and best practices for their use in operating and maintaining appropriate performance, capacity, and availability data collection tools and services for IT network enterprise, to include cloud-resident data, applications, and services.
• Maintain awareness of and state of preparedness to support emerging network migrations and modernization across IT networks.
• Analyze network requirements and capacity and coordinate with various teams to ensure design and development activities result in acceptable user experience.
• Generate and deliver reoccurring reports, as directed.

Qualifications

Minimum of 5 years of experience with the following:

• Experience in the use of Wireshark, Netscout, Riverbed, or tcpdump, and having the capability to analyze network packet data to optimize transport performance as part of advanced troubleshooting and problem resolution in a complex network with the Government or contracting leads.
• Experience in managing complex scheduling to conduct performance tuning with internal and external teams to meet mission priorities.
• Experience utilizing Government-provided Information Technology (IT) tools to generate various Open Systems Interconnection (OSI) layers metrics/analysis and provide reports to identify network problems, as needed.
• Demonstrated technical leadership for the integration of network requirements, design, and technology with experience in the design and perform integration of new technologies into local and wide area networks.
• Experience to support the transition and migration of networks and development of network addressing schemes.
• Demonstrated knowledge in network hardware, routers, switches, hubs, gateways, access points, network interface cards, networking cables, network bridges, modems, Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) adapters, and firewalls.
• Requires active or having the ability to achieve DoD 8570 compliance or information assurance certification commensurate within six-months to meet technical objectives and services required within the contract.

Preferred Qualifications:

• The ability to effectively communicate to partners, stakeholders, and customers the critical preparations for a Network Tuning Event and to identify the objective of the activity and required planning from the internal/external teams involved.
• Embrace and participate in a culture of inquisitive knowledge to research the latest network tools and analytical capabilities to advance the ability to identify network performance issues from the server or client perspective and provide solutions to enable satisfactory user experience.

Clearance Requirement:

• TS/SCI with willingness to take CI Poly
• Must be a US Citizen