# Senior Network Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Colorado Springs, CO
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $112,412 - $152,088
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

Join a dynamic and consistently expanding program at GDIT! The US Battlefield Information Collection and Exploitation System eXtended (US BICES-X) is a leading-edge initiative directly supporting critical DoW intelligence information sharing regarding current and emerging global threats to mission partners, coalition forces, and developing nations.

We are seeking a creative and highly motivated professional eager to tackle real-world challenges within a collaborative and fast-paced environment.

**Responsibilities:**

- Implement and maintain network security policies, ensuring firewalls and security devices are configured to protect organisational data and systems.

- Ensure high availability, redundancy, and optimal performance of the central service node's network infrastructure, supporting critical applications and services.

- Design, configure, and manage secure VPN connections to provide reliable communication between remote locations.

- Maintain and optimise network equipment, including routers, firewalls, switches, and encryption devices, ensuring stable and efficient connectivity.

- Administer and support key network-related software, including Cisco Call Manager (VoIP), SolarWinds (network monitoring), and Microsoft NPS (access control).

- Diagnose and resolve network issues, providing timely support to both local and remote users to minimise downtime.

- Participate in network capacity planning, ensuring the infrastructure scales effectively to meet mission demands.

- Maintain detailed network documentation, including configurations, diagrams, and troubleshooting procedures, for operational efficiency.

- Collaborate with IT teams and stakeholders, ensuring smooth communication on network-related initiatives.

- Ensure compliance with industry regulations and security standards, maintaining best practices across all network operations.

- Provide on-call support for critical network issues, ensuring swift resolution during off-hours.

**Required Qualifications:**

- Bachelor’s Degree or the equivalent combination of education, technical experience

- Active TS/SCI security clearance.

- 5+ years Network Engineering experience.

- Cisco CCNA or equivalent industry-recognised networking certification.

- Security+ CE or equivalent security certification.

- Must have a valid passport and willing to travel.

- Demonstrated mastery configuring/troubleshooting DMVPN, and GRE tunnels.

- Proven expertise in routing/switching protocols (EIGRP, BGP, STP, IKEv2, ESP, SIP, SCCP).

- Expertise in network security policy implementation and security device configuration.

- Demonstrated proficiency with HAIPE encryption devices(GDMS, ViaSat).

- Proven teamwork and collaboration skills.

- Ability to work efficiently, multitask, and maintain quality in a fast-paced environment.

- Strong organisational, prioritisation, and autonomous work skills.

- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

- Results-driven, efficient, energetic, and highly motivated.

**Benefits:**

- Medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts

- Dental plan options

- Vision plan

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- Paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave

- Short and long-term disability benefits

- Life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance

## Skills

### Required
- Network Engineering
- Cisco CCNA
- Security+
- DMVPN
- GRE tunnels
- EIGRP
- BGP
- STP
- IKEv2
- ESP
- SIP
- SCCP
- HAIPE encryption devices

### Nice to have
- Cisco CCNP
- Juniper JNCIP
- CISSP
- CASP+
- ITIL Foundation certification
- VoIP/collaboration systems
- firewalls and rule sets
- virtualization

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