Network Engineer-Architect

Are you ready to grow as a Network Engineer-Architect? Antero Technology Services is looking for a proactive person with a TS/SCI clearance to join our Enterprise Infrastructure Engineering Team. Your team reliably delivers next generation enterprise services for tens of thousands of mission-critical customers on a global scale. You will be assessing, implementing, and verifying service upgrades to the enterprise infrastructure. You’ll develop process scripting and health monitoring automation to make your systems robust and reliable across the global enterprise.

Your Place in Our Team

We’re a small business which means you make a big difference with our team. We offer full company-paid health plans, time off, retirement, and other financial benefits. Our culture thrives on learning, and our professional growth program helps pay for your advancement.  We encourage leadership growth too, and we’ll help you build and lead a team of your own. If solving a complex routing problem is what gets you up in the morning, you are the right person for this position!

What you’ll be doing

• Design and deploy global to site-level networks (LAN, WLAN, WAN)
• Assist in the design and implementation of network systems, tools, hardware, and software
• Assess network utilization: suggest improvements to network performance, capacity, and scalability
• Support Tier 3 escalations via packet capture analysis and troubleshooting of performance issues
• Configure, monitor, and maintain infrastructure devices to ensure network and system integrity
• Develop network technical documentation, diagrams, policies, and procedures
• Use Putty, SMC, GEM, Splunk, Wireshark, HPNA, HP NNMi, Netscout, and various other tools to manage infrastructure
• Interface with vendors to ensure proper performance of tools and software packages
• Provide analysis and root cause resolution of network and system infrastructure problems and outages
• Participate in research and development of innovative new technologies to continuously improve the IT business needs of the organization
• Provide expert guidance and recommendations to senior-level Government and Vendor decision- makers, technicians, and managers

What you’ll need to have

• TS/SCI; CI Poly 
• 8570 IAT Level II Certification (typically Security+)
• Must have at least one CCNA, CCNP, JNCIS-ENT, JNCIP-ENT or similar network certification
• High School+12 years; Bachelor’s+10; Master’s+8
• Knowledge of Hierarchical Network and Multi-layer network designs
• Experience with WAN circuit technologies (T1; DS3; OC-3; OC-12; OC-192)
• Working knowledge of network technologies and protocols including Trunking, VTP, Layer 2 & 3 Port-channels, Spanning-Tree, Port-Security, HSRP, EIGRP, OSPF, QoS, BGP, and MPLS, BFD
• Hands-on coding experience in Python, JavaScript, Ruby, SQL, and/or other relevant languages
• Engaging communications style with customers, peers, and support teams

Strengths you’ll bring to our team

• Passion for learning and professional growth
• Eagerness to help customers, peers, and juniors
• Taking ownership to do the right things right
• Building trust by delivering results that make a difference
• Comfortable communicating good news, bad news, challenging opinions, and innovative ideas

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, or national origin