Principal Network Engineer - TS/SCI clearance

GDIT is seeking a Principal Network Engineer to help support our Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management - Next-Gen (JSP ETM - NG) program at the Pentagon in Arlington, VA.

Due to the nature of work this role entails, telecommuting is not allowed and will require the employee to report full-time onsite.

How the Principal Network Engineer will make an impact:

• Provide architecture/engineering expertise for network implementations, cloud environment integrations, project designs, and standards development, as well as onboarding new tenants

• Provide administration/support for intelligent DNS routing between enterprise locations/data centers, as well as plan and implement upgrades (includes installation of new equipment)

• Implement approved authentication and certificate management controls

• Use caching (static html content) for the enterprise infrastructure environment (hardware, software, and configuration components) and supported tenants

• Support deployment options

• Configure self IPs, port lockdown, and network routes

• Configure remote logging to Splunk

• Adhere to change management processes and procedures

• Troubleshoot, configure, upgrade, maintain, and monitor the load balancer network architecture (performance, configurations, traffic flow, application monitoring, CPU capacity/utilization)

• Analyze network alarms and identify sources

• Coordinate with on-site support personnel while troubleshooting

• Use enterprise service management tools to initiate, respond, and track service requests

• Create reports and analyze performance metrics

• Develop processes/procedures and related engineering documentation for troubleshooting and quickly identifying issues

• Perform reach back to OEM Vendors to de-conflict operational issues with known operating system bugs and security alerts

• Partner with the information security personnel to assess potential exposure to vulnerabilities, identify mitigation plans, and ensure compliance with enterprise security baselines and standards

• Evaluate modern technologies to optimize network efficiency and review/provide recommendations to improve the network

• Inform management in a clear, concise, and timely manner of any customer or technical issues

• Be responsive and decisive on adjusting architecture as customer requirements and technology evolves

What you'll need to be successful:

• Active Top Secret security clearance

• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering or Equivalent; Master’s degree preferred +8 years primary role operating, troubleshooting, installing network routers and switches

• IAT Level II certification in accordance with DoD 8570.01-M

• One of the following Networking Certifications - Brocade, Cisco (CCNA/CCNP), Juniper (JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP), Aruba

• 5+ years primary role directly designing, architecting routed and switched networks up to and including enterprise sized networking solutions.

• 2+ years as senior or lead engineer in planning, designing, and building software defined networks

• Demonstrated experience is a DoD environment

• Configuring and installing various network devices and services

• Monitoring network performance and resource utilization, trending, capacity planning

• Use of current and emergent network design principles and protocols

• Experience with network virtualization technologies

• Experience with multi-tenant network architectures

• Familiarity with a width variety network routing and switching equipment devices from multiple vendors

• Scripting languages such as Pearl, Python, coding for network threshold events.