Description
We are seeking a Transport Network Engineer to support the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA-PAC) at Ford Island, Hawaii. The successful candidate will perform sustainment, maintenance, problem, and change management services to ensure secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of the Department of Defense networks.
Network Design and Engineering The Transport Network Engineer will:
- Perform network management system design, develop methods of procedure, analysis, testing, and modifications of architecture in support of software/hardware technical refresh and upgrades.
- Implement new network hardware on operational nodes.
- Deploy network changes and monitor for impacts to customer traffic.
- Recommend best practices for network operation and maintenance.
- Provide ad-hoc engineering support, statistics/data gathering, modeling, and creating/updating flowcharts.
Engineering Incident Management Escalation Support The Transport Network Engineer will:
- Perform fault isolation, analysis, and troubleshooting across various transport platforms.
- Update ServiceNow tickets with accurate documentation.
- Provide situational awareness reporting to customers and management.
- Document the Mission Support Services (MSS) database to reflect the real-time network.
- Support Authorized Service Interruption (ASI) activities and interact with problem coordinators and vendors.
Basic Qualifications
- Currently possess DoD 8750 certification at IAT level II, Security+ CE or equivalent.
- Requires BS degree and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.
- Currently possess an active Secret security clearance.
- Proficient in one or more transport platforms: CIENA 6500, CIENA Corestream, Cisco NCS2K, CISCO MSPP 15454/15310, SYCAMORE ODXC 16K/9K, XTERA.
- Experience analyzing section, line, and path events on optical networks.
- Experience with end-to-end system loopback testing and troubleshooting on transport networks.
Preferred Qualifications
- Equally proficient in Ciena and/or Cisco configuration, troubleshooting, and design.
- Experience with Power systems and Network Timing.
- Experience with Dense Wavelength Division (DWDM) and Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET).
- Possess understanding of Physical (Layer 1) and Data Link (Layer 2) network troubleshooting.
- CIENA 6500 configuration, troubleshooting, and design experience.
- CISCO 4200 configuration, troubleshooting, and design experience.
- Excellent project, technical, interpersonal, presentation, and problem management skills.
Pay Range: $73,450.00 - $132,775.00