Principal Network Engineer - Arlington, VA
REQ#: RQ118432
Travel Required: Less than 10%
Requisition Type: Regular
GDIT is seeking a Principal Network Engineer at the Pentagon to ensure the stability, integrity, and availability of the networking infrastructure and associated services within the Pentagon and surrounding locations. This position will support DISA Joint Service Provider on the Enterprise Transport Management (ETM) program.
Shift: Tuesday to Saturday 22:00 to 06:30am or Tuesday to Saturday 06:00 to 14:30pm
The Principal Network Engineer is responsible for the design and development of voice, video, radio-frequency, and/or data communications networks.
Job duties may include but are not limited to:
Configure and install various network devices and services
Monitor network performance and resource utilization, trending, capacity planning
Use of current and emergent network design principles and protocols
Analyze voice, video, radio-frequency, and/or data communications networks, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting, and upgrading operating systems and protocol suites and configuring communication media with concentrators, bridges, and other devices
Plan network layouts and configure systems to user environments
Analyze network topologies and traffic and capacity requirements
Support the acquisition of hardware and software as well as subcontractor services as needed
May provide technical support and troubleshooting to users
May perform network administration duties
Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced network personnel
Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
REQUIRED SKILLS:
Active Secret clearance
Certification requirement for DoD 8570 Level II certification
CCNA certification
Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Engineering or Equivalent. Work experience can be considered in lieu of degree
10+ years of experience including: 5+ years of operating, troubleshooting, installing network routers and switches and designing, architecting routed and switched networks, 2+ years as senior or lead engineer in planning, designing, and building software defined networks, 3+ years in DoD environment
Must have hands-on experience/knowledge with Aruba networking systems
Experience with network virtualization technologies
Experience with multi-tenant network architectures
Familiarity with a width variety network routing and switching equipment devices from multiple vendors
Scripting languages such as Pearl, Python, coding for network threshold events.
DESIRED SKILLS:
Master’s degree
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