Senior Network Engineer

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Do you have a background in network technologies? Do you have a passion for learning and developing new technologies in an enterprise environment? Do you have knowledge of IP networks? Do you have experience with classified network environments? Do you understand why cloud, scalability, network automation, and data-driven decisions are important?

MITRE's R115 Network Engineering team is currently seeking a Sr. Network Engineer. This is a great opportunity to work in a team environment where you will be part of the engineering group that supports both our corporate enterprise infrastructure and enables sponsor-facing projects.

Responsibilities include:

• Support the Network engineering definition, design, and deployment for MITRE's Network Infrastructure and Service environments
• Network support for both onprem and offprem cloud-based services
• Help drive forward new technical capabilities important to our users
• Collaborate with staff to support quality and maintainable systems
• Contribute directly to the technical work of one or more projects
• Validate and test rollout plans prior to corporate release and work within Change Control guidelines
• Rotational on-call responsibilities and some after-hours work required
• Oversight of infrastructure artifacts, ensuring designs follow consistent and high-quality guidelines and secure standards
• Participate in disaster recovery development, exercises, and actual events
• Maintain systems and documentation as needed for audits and compliance
• Collaborate and communicate effectively both verbally and written, with team members of any level, both inter and intra department.
• Strong desire to keep technical skills current and remain abreast of emerging technologies, new versions of existing solutions.
• Keep abreast of industry white papers & informed of critical software/firmware updates
• Capable of lifting 20 lbs.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree and 5 + years of related work experience.
• Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.

Required Qualifications:

• 5 years of experience with networking technologies and core Internet protocols (e.g., BGP, OSPF, MPLS-VPN, and DMVPN)
• Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD Secret clearance
• Passion for technology and a desire to learn
• Familiarity with networking and security concepts/capabilities such as TCP/IP stack, routing, switching, DNS, Wireless, 802.1x, etc.
• Experience managing/configuring Cisco and/or Juniper networking equipment preferred
• Basic programming skills (Python, Ansible)
• Capable of breaking down and resolving customer or network related issues
• Strong written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Cloud networking experience with AWS, Azure, Google preferred
• Experience with Palo Alto, Cisco firewalls preferred
• Cisco CCNA preferred
• Juniper experience
• Exposure to network programmability concepts such as software defined networking

This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Secret

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Secret

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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