Network Engineer SME

Fort Meade, MD

Full Time

Experienced

JCS Solutions LLC (JCS) is a premier technology firm specializing in enterprise-wide capabilities including cloud and infrastructure solutions, cyber security, digital modernization, next generation technologies enablement, software solutions, and mission support services dedicated to providing the highest quality of services and solutions. JCS delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to federal agencies.

We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation.

JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post’s Top Places to Work for 2024.

Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!

Customer Experience: Strive for excellence and delight our clients
Innovation: Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions
Accountability: Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery
Inspire: Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process
Integrity: Do the right thing, the right way, every time!

Summary:

JCS Solutions has a need for a Network Engineer SME to join our growing Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!

At this time, this position follows a hybrid reporting schedule. Should the government require this position to be fully onsite in the future, the requirement of this position will be change to full-time onsite schedule.

What you will do:

The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:

Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service.
Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns.
Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.
Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans.
Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions.
Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.
Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability.
Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks.
Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts.
Comfortable in a fast-paced environment.
Technically strong and able to make quick, sound decisions.
Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must.

To be successful, you should have:

Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.
Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as PaloAlto Panorama, SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, What’s Up Gold, or Junos Space.
Experience in designing and implementing VTC solutions.
Experience with ScienceLogic SL1 and/or SolarWinds.
Hands on experience with SD-WAN.
Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.
Expert knowledge of DoD security requirements for network infrastructure.
Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

Required Skills and Experience:

SECRET DoD Clearance.
Must be a US Citizen.
Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (preferred) with 12-15 years' experience or Master's degree with 10-13 years of experience (additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree).
Require network certification which shall meet or exceed a CCNA (comparable vender certification accepted upon review).
Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start.
Experience documenting logical or physical designs using drawing tools (e.g. Visio, Powerpoint, Gliffy, Cameo, MagicDraw) to depict systems, subsystems, interfaces, components, and communications of I/T applications and infrastructure.
Experienced and comfortable with conducting technical troubleshooting to resolve issues.
Experience conducting site surveys or analyzing data obtained from site surveys.
Experience creating or executing a migration plan to move circuits, network traffic, services, applications, or data between environments or to a commercial cloud provider. Alternatively, experience planning or executing a technology refresh or lifecycle refresh of an existing I/T system.
Heavily experienced in upgrading and LCR of network devices.
Must have broad exposure to common I/T infrastructure networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Proxies, Routing(L2/L3), and Firewalls.
Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, F5, Aruba, Palo Alto, Dell, Brocade, and Fortinet.
Demonstrate experience in designing and implementing medium to large network infrastructure and producing corresponding technical documentation.
Must be able to work as part of a team to troubleshoot and resolve complex network issues.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills. This shall include drafting SOPs and technical documentation.
Requires ability to communicate with executive leadership (internally or client) regarding matters of significant important to the organization/project.
Must be able to present designs and plans to technical leadership personnel and boards for approvals. Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and assignments simultaneously under strict deadlines with minimal direction at times.
Strong communication skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment.

It is JCS’ policy to promote equal employment opportunities and celebrate diversity. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, ethnicity, age, national origin, citizenship, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, pregnancy, family structure, marital status, ancestry, domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, veteran or military status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

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