Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$145k–$196k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastr…
Skills: Cisco ASA Firewall, Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Network routing, EIGRP
Herndon, Virginia, United States · Remote OK
Who we are: ShorePoint is a fast-growing, industry-recognized and award-winning cybersecurity services firm focused on high-profile, high-threat public and private sector customers who demand experience and proven securi…
Skills: Post-Quantum Cryptography, Cybersecurity, Network security, Risk assessment, Public Key Infrastructure
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$115k–$155k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and O…
Skills: Computer systems, IT tech support, Networks, System administration, Hardware troubleshooting
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$162k–$219k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Professiona…
Skills: Quality Control Processes, Software Testing, Software Testing Process, Automated Testing, Building And Maintaining Frameworks
Herndon, Virginia, United States · Hybrid
$225k–$304k/yr
Type of Requisition: Pipeline Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret/SCI Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Technical Solutions Jo…
Skills: Solutions design, Technical proposals, Capture leadership, Proposal development, Systems integration
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$111k–$150k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastructure and Operations …
Skills: Amazon Web Services, Cloud Infrastructure, Java, Python, Agile Scrum
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$170k–$229k/yr
Type of Requisition: Pipeline Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrast…
Skills: Complex Systems, System Modeling, Systems Architecture, Systems Design, Systems Development
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$170k–$230k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Program Del…
Skills: Project management, Cyber security governance, Communication, Information technology project management, Meeting management
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$176k–$282k/yr
Responsibilities Ready to make an impact! Peraton has an exciting opportunity for a cleared Technical Project Manager to join our dynamic multi-disciplinary team, developing a next generation satellite terminal on a miss…
Skills: Project Management, SATCOM, Budget Management, Schedule Management, Subcontract Management
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-ge…
Skills: Aerospace engineering, Modeling and simulation, Data analysis, Python, Astrodynamics
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$143k–$184k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Program Del…
Skills: Inventory Management, Planning, Process Improvements, Sourcing and Procurement, IT Hardware Procurement
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$140k–$206k/yr
Vantor is forging the new frontier of spatial intelligence, helping decision makers and operators navigate what’s happening now and shape what’s coming next. Vantor is a place for problem solvers, changemakers, and go-ge…
Skills: Aerospace engineering, Mission analysis, Modeling and simulation, Data analysis, Python
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$135k–$216k/yr
Responsibilities Join Peraton in advancing the safety, efficiency, and modernization of the National Airspace System (NAS) through the FAA’s Brand New Air Traffic Control System (BNATCS) contract. As a trusted partner to…
Skills: Stakeholder management, Program coordination, Communication, Issue triage, FAA modernization
Herndon, Virginia, United States · Hybrid
$155k–$209k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Secret Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret/SCI Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Proposals Job Qualifications: Skills: Peopl…
Skills: Proposal management, People management, Planning, Request for proposals, Persuasive writing
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$170k–$230k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software En…
Skills: Amazon Web Services, Angular, Java, Software development lifecycle, Webservice design
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$124k–$144k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Program Del…
Skills: Business support, Data analysis, Data visualization, Program management, Performance monitoring
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$162k–$219k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: None Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software Engineering Job Qualific…
Skills: Cloud Development, DevOps, Java, Python, AWS
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$102k–$138k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: IT Infrastr…
Skills: Cisco ASA Firewall, Local Area Network, Wide Area Network, Network routing, EIGRP
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$157k–$213k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software En…
Skills: Aws, Git, Cloudformation, Cloudwatch, Ec2
Herndon, Virginia, United States · On-site
$143k–$184k/yr
Type of Requisition: Regular Clearance Level Must Currently Possess: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain: Top Secret SCI + Polygraph Public Trust/Other Required: None Job Family: Software En…
Skills: Amazon Web Services, Javascript, Node.js, React.js, Microservices
Herndon, Virginia, United States • On-site
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The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and maintaining complex IT infrastructure and security solutions. They will perform security audits, manage network installations, and provide expert-level analysis and troubleshooting for voice, video, and data communications.
Candidates must possess over 10 years of experience in network engineering, specifically with Cisco, Palo Alto, or Juniper firewalls and LAN/WAN environments. A Top Secret SCI clearance with Polygraph is required, along with a Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience.
Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret SCI + PolygraphThe Network Engineer is responsible for designing technical solutions for complex problems. The candidate will provide technical oversight of a project solution, including requirement interpretation and allocation of requirements to technical components. The candidate will define processes to support the implementation of requirements. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring that the technical solutions leverage industry best practices, designing security and excellence while minimizing the total cost of ownership. Candidate should be able to define internal and external customer IT infrastructure architecture needs and then design solutions to meet those needs to include: capacity planning, systems configuration and tuning, monitoring backups, and installations of hardware and software. Candidates will be required to work independently with little supervision and should be flexible to work and support IT Operations needs as requested.
Define, maintain, and upgrade the overall security posture of the networks
Will perform security audits of events, overall health and implement changes to improve the overall programs security posture.
Manage and allocate network installation and engineering tasks, configure and maintain communications systems, familiarity with implementation of LAN and WAN equipment including firewalls, servers, workstations, routers, switches, hubs, storage devices, A/V equipment and equipment racks
Ability to write and edit “build-to” and “as-built” documentation, as well as implementation and test plans for physical and logical installs of IT equipment
Able to engage in technical system planning beyond the network, to include applications and systems that utilize the network being delivered
Provides expert level analysis of voice, video, and/or data communications networks, including planning, designing, evaluating, selecting, and upgrading operating systems and protocol suites
Able to plan network layouts and configures systems to user environments
May provide technical support and troubleshooting to users. (Tier I, II, and III)
Required Qualifications:
Experience allowing voice, video traffic across port-based firewall and NGFW
Expertise/experience (more than 10) deploying Cisco, Palo Alto, or Juniper firewall Manager servers
Experience in engineering and deploying multi firewall solutions
Experience design, engineering, and deploying controlled interfaces (10 + years)
Experience design, engineering, and deploying firewall vendor transitioning plans
Experience design, engineering, and deploying firewall in a multicast network environment
Experience IPSec site-to-site VPN utilizing PKI (CA)
Experiences Remote access VPN
12 +years of experience configuring/maintaining Cisco ASA/Next Generation Firewall
10 + years of experience configuring, designing, maintaining, and troubleshooting LAN/WAN devices. Thorough understanding of network routing concepts (EIGRP, OSPF, BGP, IP MPLS)
Basic understanding of QoS concepts
Experience with network monitoring technologies
Ability to take ambiguous requirements or problems and convert them into technical solutions
Ability to partner with systems administrators, storage administrators, and application developers to solve complex problems
Complex problem management research and issue resolution
Ability to mentor junior network engineers
10+ years of related Network Engineering experience
Bachelor’s or Technology degree in Engineering or a related specialized area/field, OR equivalent 14 years job-related experience
Excellent organizational, coordination, interpersonal and team building skills
Proven problem-solving skills in complex environments
Location: At Customer Site – Herndon area
Desired Qualifications:
Experience configuring, designing, and troubleshooting QoS in LAN or WAN devices
Juniper, Palo Alto, or Cisco Next Generation Firewalls Certifications and hands on experience
Experience design, engineering, and deploying Muli-Factor Authentication solution
Experience design, engineering, and deploying Zero-Trust solutions
GDIT IS YOUR PLACE:
401K with company match
Comprehensive health and wellness packages
Internal mobility team dedicated to helping you own your career
Professional growth opportunities including paid education and certifications
Cutting-edge technology you can learn from
Rest and recharge with paid vacation and holidays
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The likely salary range for this position is $144,500 - $195,500. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.Telecommuting Options:
OnsiteGDIT is a global technology and professional services company that delivers solutions, technology and mission services to every major agency across the U.S. government, defense and intelligence community. Our 26,000 experts extract the power of technology to create immediate value and deliver solutions at the edge of innovation. We operate across 50+ countries worldwide, offering leading capabilities in digital modernization, AI, cyber, and software development. GDIT is part of General Dynamics, a global aerospace and defense company. We have shared our customers’ sense of purpose for over half a century and have a unique understanding of their missions, complex environments, and a rapidly changing world. Together with our customers, we strive to create a safer, smarter world by harnessing the power of deep expertise and advanced technology.
Offices: Falls Church, Virginia 22042, US
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