Have you ever wanted to work at a company with other like-minded hard workers supporting national security issues? If you're seeking a reputable mid-size company with the pay, benefits, and energy of a Fortune 100 company, then Railhead is for you. We surround ourselves with top talent across the DoD, Intelligence Community, and commercial sector. Whether you're working on-site at one of Railhead's corporate locations around the globe, or at a customer site, we inspire a culture of fun and creativity while performing some of our Nation's most critical and impactful work.
Description:
Railhead is seeking qualified candidates to join our Defense Enclave Services (DES) team, who will support an extensive digital modernization program critical to DISA and Fourth Estate Agencies. The Network Engineer will work with various Product Owners to deliver new cloud service capabilities. The Network Engineer will develop, configure, and deploy network services within the Azure Cloud and data centers to fulfill end user requirements. The Network Engineer will participate in the development of user stories, sprint planning, and test case development / execution within an agile project environment.
Primary Responsibilities:
- Designing, maintaining, and operating Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless, Internet connectivity, utilizing Infrastructure as Code and Ansible Automation Platform.
- Automate network changes on across various vendor platforms and Azure Cloud.
- Experience in planning, designing and migration of DDI Services (InfoBlox)
- Experience in DHCP, DNS and IPAM Solutions as a Service
- Experience with ISE (Identity Service Engine)
- Assist multifunctional teams to help optimize and visualize network operations.
- Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information.
- 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.
- Have a significant role in the evaluation and support of network architectures across platforms to ensure alignment to cloud and network modernization strategies, capabilities and requirement sets.
- Participate in the day-to-day execution of the enterprise architecture strategy via agile release schedules utilizing DevOps and CI/CD tool sets.
- Work across multiple projects and systems to develop user stories, test cases, system design document, implementation plans, and SOPs.
- Understanding technical security best particles and guidelines. Knowledge of and experience with security policies, network security, data security and security event management.
Basic Qualifications:
- Possess a current Secret clearance or above.
- Bachelor's degree and 8+ years; additional years of related work experience may be substituted for a degree.
- Current IAT Level II or higher Certification such as Security +; CCNA or CCNP desired.
- Experience architecting/deploying/operating solutions software defined networking.
- Experience with DevOps principles and Automation Platforms such Cisco DNA, Palo Alto Prisma and Ansible.
- Strong understanding of networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), Firewalls and Software Defined Networking.
- Strong scripting experience/background (using Python)
- Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as FISMA, FedRAMP, and NIST.
- Candidate must possess strong written and verbal communication skills, a demonstrated ability to meet deadlines, a strong analytical ability.
- Expertise in the Atlassian tool suite, to include JIRA and Confluence
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
About Railhead:
Railhead, Inc. is a leader in intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance; advanced cyber solutions; cloud and managed IT solutions; engineering, and information-based solutions for law enforcement and homeland security. We provide training and logistics in support of readiness operations; and operational support services and solutions in support of organizations not limited to DHS, DoD, and the Intelligence Community (IC). We hire mission enablers whom reflect our communities and proactively embrace diversity and inclusion, in order to advance our corporate culture, develop our family of employees into the best they can be, and in turn grow our market share throughout industry.
Railhead, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected factor.
