# Network Engineer Principal

**Company**: GDIT
**Location**: Chantilly, VA
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $122,275 - $165,431
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

As a Network Engineer Principal at GDIT, you will play a crucial role in designing, deploying, and maintaining network infrastructure for clients. Your work will have a direct impact on the mission of the client.

Key responsibilities include:

- Analyzing customer requirements and providing technical solutions to complex problems

- Performing radio frequency site surveys, analyzing network performance, configuring access points/controllers, and troubleshooting connectivity issues

- Planning, designing, and deploying network infrastructure, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and wireless devices

- Maintaining a strong understanding of networking protocols, including TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, VLANs, DNS, and OSI models

- Understanding the Risk Management Framework process to support IA team with Authority To Operate activities

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

- Installing, configuring, and maintaining entire physical networking Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS) infrastructure

- Overseeing WIDS implementation, System Development Life Cycle (SDLC), and system/network administration activities

- Providing Tier-2/Tier-3 support for network and WIDS incidents

- Maintaining network integrity and connectivity while ensuring compliance with policies

- Utilizing network monitoring applications for traffic, access, and performance of entire network

- Creating and updating technical documentation for network configuration, topology, and mapping

- Coordinating the acquisition of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed

- Evaluating new network solutions, capabilities, and technologies to enhance network capabilities

- Serving as a subject matter expert to escalate IT issues to leadership

To succeed in this role, you will need:

- A Bachelor's Degree with 4 years of relevant experience or Associate's Degree with 6 years of relevant experience or High School / GED with 8 years of relevant experience

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

- TS/SCI with polygraph security clearance

- US citizenship

- Onsite client and travel required

The likely salary range for this position is $122,275 - $165,431.

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## Skills

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

### Nice to have
- Experience in WIDS administrative functions, metrics, and active M&R
- Experience with wireless monitoring equipment
- Experience with mobile wireless direction-finding equipment
- Experience working with the IC and DOW elements

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