Network Engineer Level 3 (Copy)

For the OPS Consulting team, ‘the power to help’ means helping our clients,

helping serve the mission, helping our employees and their families, and helping

the community. Headquartered in Hanover, MD. OPS Consulting has over two decades

of experience specializing in the most mission-critical operations. We are

thought leaders and innovators. The ingenuity of our developers, engineers,

cyber experts, linguists, and analysts are dedicated to empowering our clients,

fulfilling The Mission, and remaining trusted leaders and advisers in national

security and technology solutions.

We are looking for a Network Engineer Level 3 to join a team providing

managerial, design, engineering, architectural, technical, implementation, and

maintenance of an enterprise IT service management system in Annapolis-Junction,

MD.

The Network Engineer Level 3 performs network services from network design

through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks.

Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents. Performs general

LAN/CAN/WAN administration. Schedules conversions and cutovers. Coordinates with

all responsible users and sites to resolve network or system incidents.

Translates business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, CAN, WAN,

Voice and Video) requirements, designs and orders. Performs engineering analysis

of telecommunications alternatives in support of strategic modernization efforts

and telecommunications enhancement design for medium and large-scale

telecommunication infrastructures. Assists telecommunications end users,

telecommunications operations personnel, and telecommunications strategic

program management with network interfaces.

Responsibilities-The Level 3 Network Engineer shall possess the following

capabilities:

* Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management.

* Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information.

* Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis

and network performance monitoring tools.

* Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission

architecture.

* Design solutions, integrate, configure, deploy, test and provide ongoing

maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and

methodologies.

* Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end

components.

* Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface

requirements.

* Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to

include load-balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over

IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP

(MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate.

* Configure and maintain organization's network diagrams and accreditations.

* Oversee the support to all network equipment.

* Develop designs of the organization's network and mission architecture to

meet new partner requirements.

* Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers.

* Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other

DoD/IC regulations.

* Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test

equipment and network simulators.

* Design modules representing traditional circuit switched networks.

* Lead large efforts and installation projects of dynamic requirements and

scale.

* Develop algorithms for models using networking and/or telecommunications

technologies and systems.

Qualifications

• * A Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Assurance, Information
• Security Systems Engineering, or a related discipline from an accredited
• college or university is required.
• * A Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in System
• Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering Science,
• Engineering Management, or related discipline and an additional two (2) years
• of experience providing Network Engineering support may be substituted for
• the Master's degree.
• * Ten (10) years of relevant professional experience providing Network
• Engineering support and training commensurate with network engineering
• curriculum is required.
• * An Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level II baseline certification as
• defined by DoD 8570.01-M is required.
• * Cisco certification is not required.
• * US citizenship and an active TS/SCI with FSP security clearance required.