Network Migration Network Engineer

The AGUN program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support the Army’s global wide area network and security infrastructure. You will be supporting a large and complex network migration and operations for the US Army. This role is remote and will include leadership of operations support staff and directing operational support activities for a global network. 

CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT: 
Must currently possess and be able to maintain an active DoD SECRET security clearance. (US Citizenship required)

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Operate and maintain secure network solutions operated as a centralized enterprise capability for the US Army. 

• Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current network routing, configurations, and requirements to provide migration support for the Army global wide-area network.   

• Analyze and understand secure SD-WAN and MPLS connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements.  

• Support the transformation of Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF), route tables, and traffic segmentation from legacy routers to the AGUN solution.   

• Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization and resource management strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards.   

• Work with information assurance teams and the AGUN cybersecurity service provider (CSSP) to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with maintenance of the network security posture.

• Document designs, diagrams, drawings, and technical narratives using wiki technologies and common diagram and drawing tools.

BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:

• Minimum of a Bachelor’s degree with varying years of experience; additional years of directly applicable experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.

• Require active DoD IAT Level II (i.e. Security+) certification or equivalent prior to start. Must obtain and maintain an approved Computing Environment (CE) certification applicable to the supported technology environment within six (6) months of hire.

• Heavily experienced in patching, upgrading, and lifecycle refresh of network devices.

• Demonstrated experience with networking concepts and protocols: LAN, WAN, BGP, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, Routing(L2/L3), CCMP, and Firewalls.

• Demonstrate experience in one or more of the following enterprise network management tools such as Palo Alto Panorama, Cisco Prime, Cisco DNA, or Junos Space.

• Demonstrate experience in system hardening of network infrastructure to include DoD STIG implementation.

• Must have experience in working with two or more of the following vender network technologies: Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Dell, RAVPN, Global Protect, or AppGate.

• Experience with the following protocols: SFTP, SSH, SCP, BGP, MPLS, SNMP, NTP.

• Must be able to work as part of a team to execute troubleshooting and resolve complex network issues.

• Must be willing to work non-standard shifts to accomplish network migration objectives and goals

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Able to directly interface with customers.

• Must be willing to travel up to 10% of the time.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Army/DISA migration experience.

• Certified Cisco Network Professional (CCNP) or equivalent.

• Experience with virtualized network devices and infrastructure

• Hands on experience with Cisco SD-WAN.

• Hands on experience with Palo Alto Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW)

• Knowledge and use of NetSecOps technologies including git, Gitlab CI/CD, Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, and network element managers

• Working knowledge and understanding of Python

• Demonstrate expertise in design and improvement of complex and geographically enterprise networks.

• Expert knowledge of US Army security requirements for network infrastructure.

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