Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Booz Allen Hamilton is seeking a Lead Network Engineer to design and support network architecture for the Navy. The role involves providing operational support, developing technical solutions, and collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure a reliable network for critical missions.
Responsibilities
- Provide network architecture design and system operational support to other systems
- Establish requirements
- Develop and evaluate technical solutions and architecture designs
- Perform solutions analyses
- Analyze the design of an enterprise migration and implementation plan for data centers, remote access connections, cross-domain solutions, network ports, protocols, and services configurations while meeting current network requirements
- Provide Tier III network support
- Maintain responsibility for analyzing and developing solutions for networking issues by monitoring all operational communications systems and circuits
- Direct troubleshooting and restoring all actions for unscheduled outages
- Analyze network activity and performance to identify potential network issues and inefficiencies
- Develop and implement automated configuration management software solutions, including automated configuration management, software defined wide area networking, and White Box networking solutions for a reliable network to support global critical missions
- Collaborate with SMEs in cybersecurity, engineering, quality assurance, and operations to learn the strategic goals and operational needs that shape the network requirements
- Share expertise during the planning of acquisition, installation, configuration, and maintenance of the network components
- Resolve interoperability issues across platforms
- Support the acquisition of hardware
Skills
- 5+ years of experience with hands-on configuration of network devices, including switches, routers, and firewalls
- Experience delivering network engineering artifacts such network templates, configuration guides, and network diagrams
- Knowledge of L2-L4 networking protocols
- Ability to travel to OCONUS locations up to 30% of the time
- Secret clearance
- HS diploma or GED
- Security+ and Cisco Certified Network Certification, including Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Certification
- Experience with Navy Enterprise Networks such as NMCI, NGEN, ONE-Net, or CANES
- Experience with software-defined networking
- Experience with network automation
- Experience in Network Access Control solutions such as Forescout or Cisco ISE
- Experience with networking tools, including Solarwinds
Benefits
- Health, life, disability, financial, and retirement benefits
- Paid leave
- Professional development
- Tuition assistance
- Work-life programs
- Dependent care
- Recognition awards program acknowledges employees for exceptional performance and superior demonstration of our values
- Full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours a week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Booz Allen’s benefit programs
- Individuals that do not meet the threshold are only eligible for select offerings, not inclusive of health benefits
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