Network Designer-Senior - SilverEdge
Herndon, VA
About the Job
SilverEdge is seeking candidates for the following position: Network Engineers with a minimum of 6 years' experience. Bachelor's or master’s Degrees are preferred in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills and responsibilities may include the following…
Responsibilities:Establishing overall strategic network standards and priorities.
Providing technical guidance and direction for TCP/IP transport network design and engineering, network routing protocols, advanced virtual networking technologies.
Analyzing the optimization of network system performance.
Overseeing the strategic interface of network systems configuration.
Assessing network engineering technologies, computing systems hardware and software protocols.
Providing high-level technical advice and guidance to managers and technical resources on network technologies to meet current and future organizational needs.
Identifying INFOSEC and COMSEC security requirements for the network.
Cisco IOS, including switching, routing, segment routing and other technologies
Radio Frequency (RF) and spectrum engineering
Optical networking technology and engineering
Satellite communications engineering
Security Clearance: Active, in-scope US Government issued Top Secret Clearance w/ FS Poly
Due to the nature of the work and contract requirements, US Citizenship is required.
Qualifications:Experience with a variety of network technologies and solution architectures
Broad understanding of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the networking field.
Knowledge of state-of-the-art systems engineering principles and network design concepts
In depth working knowledge of MPLS, TCP/IP, VPN, and IP telephony.
Full working knowledge of the OSI model, routing protocols and their application to router configurations
Experience in multi-vendor network security environment
Experience with routing design, techniques, and protocols such as BGP
In-depth understanding of peering, QoS and traffic engineering
Cloud experience (AWS (VPC, transit gateway, private link, ELB, etc), Azure (connectivity services – Vnet, virtual WAN, VPN gateway, application protection, application delivery and network monitoring, etc), etc.)
Security best practices for firewalls and perimeter security measures including VPN technologies.
Continuous integration, test automation and / or SecDevOps on iterative development projects
Agile Development methodologies"