Network Engineer (TS/SCI w/Polygraph)
Clearance: Must possess and active TS/SCI with Polygraph Clearance
Location: Chantilly, VA (5 days/week onsite)
Description:
Our customer is responsible for building and operating a hybrid-cloud mission infrastructure and services, hosting COTS, GOTS, and custom applications. The system generally does not make use of the enterprise IT services as such; is responsible for the architecture, engineering, implementation, and operation of the infrastructure components (computer, network, and storage) as well as enterprise services such as VDI, Active Directory, and audit and logging. Candidate requires support specializing in network engineering and digital forensics.
Responsibilities:
- Assist with continuous monitoring of IT systems that are required to sustain accreditation of systems.
- Coordinate engineering projects including performing technical risk assessment, de-conflict implementations, and resolve technical questions or conflicts.
- Deploy and maintain network systems.
- Diagnose network issues and follow troubleshooting procedures for restoring the network to optimal performance levels.
- Gather performance and utilization metrics from infrastructure components and proactively inform when defined thresholds are met.
- Guide networking engineering efforts in the hardware, software, and virtual infrastructure domain.
- Maintain up to date network topology drawings.
- Perform moderately complex network designs and upgrades using existing technology with limited guidance.
- Perform Tier-3 engineering and support for virtualization infrastructure, consisting of virtual servers, virtual desktops, and automation solutions.
- Plan network configurations for integration into the network, using knowledge of the performance characteristics of the systems being added to the network and the specifications for network interfaces to insure effective integration and optimal network performance.
- Prepare technical proposals for presentation to engineering review boards to make changes or add new technologies to the network.
- Provide system documentation to system security managers to support A&A efforts.
- Review user requests for upgrades or additions to the network to assess impact on network performance.
- Shepherd and perform engineering efforts in the areas of Windows and Linux servers, workstations, storage, and virtualization.
- Support network life cycle stages such as design, configure, test, deploy, and maintain.
- Utilize network analysis tools to identify performance problems in the network.
- Diagnose and resolve technical problems with overseas populations.
- Team shall direct or perform the installation of IT infrastructure as well as the installation and configuration of operating systems and applications.
- Inspect and test all equipment prior to deployment to respective overseas locations.
- Make recommendations on the best deployment strategy, considering the Sponsor’s business priorities for any application or tool.
- Provide end-to-end support of field network and forensic capabilities.
- Provide real-time and 24/7 on-call support to worldwide users.
- Provide Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other integrated documentation to support the success of field users and the program.
- Provide technical support to various Sponsor developed and COTS forensic application developers ensuring the integrity of data flow and enhance business efficiency and insights.
- Research and recommend systems, equipment and technologies to improve and enhance existing systems.
- Use application deployment guides and information from application developers to determine the most efficient and performant IT infrastructure components to deploy a particular application.
Required Skills:
- Experience analyzing existing systems and identifying necessary corrective actions & improvements.
- Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting gold image hard drives.
- Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security testing.
- Demonstrated experience creating network topology diagrams.
- Experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise required).
- Demonstrated experience implementing L2 and L3 VPN across an MPLS network.
- Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, and configuring Aspera Enterprise Server and Aspera P2P.
- Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of automation solutions.
- Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite.
- Experience performing configuration & management of virtual networks and servers and virtual workstations.
- Experience performing configuration & management of VMware vCenter and VMware NSX-T.
- Demonstrated experience performing Hypervisor deployments.
- Demonstrated experience using forensic software including Cellebrite, XRY, WinHex, FTK, and Autopsy.
- Demonstrated experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to include HSRP and VRRP.
- Demonstrated experience with network IP address management.
- Demonstrated experience with network security such as firewalls and ACL’s.
- Demonstrated experience with Routing Protocols to include OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.
- Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.
- Experience working in Local Area Network (LAN) & Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.
- Experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP subnets and masking, and routing protocols.
- Demonstrated hands on experience engineering the design, build, and configuration of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
- Hands on experience performing administration, troubleshooting, patching, and support of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.
- Demonstrated hands on experience performing engineering, implementation, and troubleshooting of VMWare virtualization infrastructure.
- Demonstrated hands on experience performing risk analysis for proposed IT infrastructure changes.
- Demonstrated hands on experience performing system monitoring and analysis, including root cause analysis of system faults and outages.
- Demonstrated experience working with vendors on system troubleshooting.
Preferred:
- Demonstrated experience explaining protocols, technical procedures, and processes clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Experience with Software Defined Networking technologies, such as Cisco ACI and VMware NSX-T.
- Demonstrated experience with load balancing technologies, such as F5 BIG-IP and Citrix NetScaler.
ABOUT FINCH AI
Finch AI is a fast-growing, fast-paced software development organization; our mission is to build new ways of interacting with information. We do that by leveraging game-changing intellectual property, cloud infrastructure expertise, and a staff that is second to none. Together, we build and support products that address complex, real-time data and analytics needs in the enterprise. Our teams are comprised of successful people that enjoy solving problems, engaging in substantive technical discussions and have passion for their work. We have very high expectations in terms of skill, motivation, self-organization and productivity. We look for people who excel working in groups, virtual and collocated, as well as those who are comfortable with fast paced agile development.
Finch AI is an equal opportunity employer.
