# Network Engineer Principal

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $142,792 - $161,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Network Engineer Principal at GDIT, you will transform technology into opportunity and shape what's next for mission-critical government projects while advancing your engineering career.

Responsibilities:

- Analyze customer requirements and provide technical solutions to complex problems.

- Perform Radio Frequency site surveys, analyze network performance, configure access points/controllers, and troubleshoot connectivity issues.

- Plan, design, and deploy network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless devices.

- Understand networking protocols, including TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, DNS, and OSI models.

- Participate in Risk Management Framework processes to support IA teams with Authority To Operate activities.

- Perform maintenance and upgrades of networks, including servers, routers, switches, firewalls, and remote access systems.

- Install, configure, and maintain physical networking Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) infrastructure.

- Provide operations and maintenance, including system administration, information assurance, and storage management for WIDS architectures.

- Ensure network integrity and connectivity while complying with policies and maintaining system backup and recovery capabilities.

- Utilize network monitoring applications for traffic, access, and performance of the entire network.

- Create and update technical documentation for network configuration, topology, and mapping.

- Coordinate the acquisition of hardware and software, as well as subcontractor services as needed.

- Evaluate new network solutions, capabilities, and technologies to enhance network capabilities.

- Serve as a subject matter expert to escalate IT issues to leadership.

Requirements:

- Bachelor's degree in a related field

- 8+ years of related experience

- Technical skills: Westfields experience, Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) implementation, System Development Life Cycle, system/network administration activities, Windows and Linux systems experience

- Security clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph

- US citizenship required

Benefits:

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401(k) plan with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Flexible work arrangements

- Opportunities for career growth and development

## Skills

### Required
- Data Communication
- Network Engineering
- Network Management
- TCP/IP
- OSPF
- BGP
- VLANs
- DNS
- OSI models
- Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS)
- System Development Life Cycle
- Windows
- Linux

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