Network Engineer III

Title: Network Engineer III

Location: Alexandria, VA

Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Job Details:

• Develop system specifications, architecture designs, integration and test plans, and all relevant documentation
• Develop risk management and mitigation strategy
• Maintain compliance with QA standards as well as ensuring service performance indicators are met or exceeded
• Experience in reviewing mission related change requirements such as Requests for Change (RFCs) and approved Change Requests (CRQs) and determining impacts on transport activities across the enterprise while providing technical solutions and cost impacts
• Experience in complex telecommunications applications involving all phases of telecommunications network design, implementation, and analysis
• Focus will be on requirements analysis, development and implementation
• Engineer and implement solutions for projects based on customer CRQs
• Serve as the technical representative for assigned projects
• Provide recommendations on newly submitted actions items
• Coordinate issues with the appropriate owners/organizations
• Provide concurrence on decisions or recommendations by assigned suspense
• Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, surveys, site visits, scenarios, business analysis and test/workflow analysis
• Write requirement specs according to standard templates
• Decompose high-level business and user requirements into functional requirements
• Represent requirements using alternative views, such as analysis models (diagrams)
• Perform requirement analysis and verification, ensuring requirement statements are complete, consistent, concise, comprehensible, traceable, feasible, unambiguous, and they conform to standards
• Manage requirements traceability information and track requirements status throughout the review process
• Identify requirement errors and defects, and write response statements to appropriate owners/organizations
• Support network traffic analysis and bandwidth optimization efforts to ensure attainment of performance and availability objectives
• Evaluate and report on new/emerging network/communication technologies to enhance capacity, performance and reliability of the network
• Evaluate and recommend changes and/or technology upgrades to address performance, standardization and industry best practices
• Follows all customer network security processes and procedures, ensures compliance with all government policies
• Develop and maintain network architecture diagrams

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institute in an area applicable to the position; an additional 4 years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree 
• Minimum six (6) years of relevant experience in addition to education level 
• Must possess current DoD 8570 IAT II and CCNP (or equivalent) certifications
• Experience working in a DoD or Intelligence Community Environment desired 
• Current active TS/SCI clearance, with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph