# Network Engineer

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Washington
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $111,155 - $150,385
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

The Network Engineer will support the technical implementation and operationalization of large-scale, global network operations and modernization contract supporting the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Diplomatic Technologies (DT).

**Responsibilities:**

- Support Network Architect and program leadership to define outputs, outcomes, and adoption framework for project creation and implementation

- Provide steady state support for current environment network operations, preparing for a modernization journey

- Support the Network Architect in defining the enterprise architecture, strategy, and roadmap for network capabilities, aligning solutions with business, technology, and cybersecurity objectives

- Leverage secure, scalable, and automated and AI-augmented solutions for provisioning, monitoring, and operational support

- Support and leverage governance frameworks, lifecycle controls, and operational standards for hardware, process, and procedure.

- Develop architecture artifacts, implementation guidance, metrics, and telemetry driven reporting that promote consistency, automation, resiliency, and operational excellence.

**Requirements:**

- Active TS/SCI clearance

- Bachelor's Degree in a related technical discipline, or combination of degree and experience.

- Minimum of 8 years' technical experience

- Aligned Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certifications

- Security+ or DoD 8570 IAT Level II Certification

- Experience with supporting network solutions incorporating load balancing, route, switch, firewalls, congestion and prioritization management, and/or micro segmentation.

- Understanding of and previous experience with Zero Trust Architecture, NIST frameworks, and other government standards and compliance frameworks.

- Understanding of Software-Defined Networking (SDN), SD-WAN, container networking, virtualization platforms, and/or other cloud focused network technologies.

- Previous experience with one or more industry leading vendors such as Cisco, Palo Alto, Fortinet, Juniper, HPE, Avaya, or similar.

- Previous experience supporting enterprise WiFi environments, including mesh solutions.

- Previous experience with Microsoft Azure, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and/or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

- Experience integrating workflows and automation solutions with ITSM platforms such as ServiceNow

- Experience with DevOps, Infrastructure as Code (IaC, Python, Git, and/or other applicable technologies

**Benefits:**

- Comprehensive benefits and wellness packages

- 401K with company match

- Competitive pay and paid time off

- Full flex work weeks where possible

- 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
- Security+
- DoD 8570 IAT Level II
- Zero Trust Architecture
- NIST frameworks
- Software-Defined Networking
- SD-WAN
- container networking
- virtualization platforms
- Microsoft Azure
- Amazon Web Services
- Google Cloud Platform
- ServiceNow
- DevOps
- Infrastructure as Code
- Python
- Git

### Nice to have
- Natural Language Processing
- intent-based architecture
- low bandwidth, high latency locations
- CISSP
- Microsoft Azure Administrator Associate
- AWS Certified Advanced Networking
- AWS Certified Security

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