OverviewBigBear.ai is seeking a Network Engineer. The Network Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, maintaining, and upgrading network systems. This role involves analyzing design specifications, performing LAN/CAN/WAN administration, and coordinating with users to resolve network incidents. The engineer translates business requirements into telecommunications solutions, conducts engineering analysis for modernization efforts, and assists end users with network interfaces. What you will do
- Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks
- Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents
- Performs general LAN/CAN/WAN administration
- Schedules conversions and cutovers.Coordinates with all responsible users and sites to resolve network or system incidents
- Translates business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, CAN, WAN, Voice and Video) requirements, designs and orders
- Performs engineering analysis of telecommunications alternatives in support of strategic modernization efforts and telecommunications enhancement design for medium and large-scale telecommunication infrastructures
- Assists telecommunications end users, telecommunications operations personnel, and telecommunications strategic program management with network interfaces
What you need to have Bachelor's Degree and 10 to 12 years of experience; Master's Degree and 8 to 10 years of experience; PhD and 5 to 7 years of experience (in lieu of Bachelor's degree, 6 additional years of relevant experience)
- Clearance: Must possess and maintain a TS-SCI Poly clearance
- Certification: An Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level III baseline certification as defined by DoD 01-M is required
- Cisco certification is required
- Deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies
- Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components
- Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements
- Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
- Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information
- Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
- Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture
What we'd like you to have
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, in organization's ne or k diagrams and accreditations
- Oversee the support to all network equipment
- Develop designs of the organization's network and mission architecture to meet new partner requirements
- Manage assigned tasks and provide guidance to junior Network Engineers
- Integrate hardware and software to satisfy ISO 9000 requirements and other DoD/IC regulations
- Resolve complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators
- Design modules representing traditional circuit switched networks
- Lead large efforts and installation projects of dynamic requirements and scale
- Develop algorithms for models using networking and/or telecommunications technologies and system
About BigBear.ai BigBear.ai is a leading provider of AI-powered decision intelligence solutions for national security, supply chain management, and digital identity. Customers and partners rely on BigBear.ai's predictive analytics capabilities in highly complex, distributed, mission-based operating environments. Headquartered in Columbia, Maryland, BigBear.ai is a public company traded on the NYSE under the symbol BBAI. For more information, visit and follow BigBear.ai on LinkedIn: @BigBear.ai and X: @BigBearai.
What you will do - Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks
- Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents
- Performs general LAN/CAN/WAN administration
- Schedules conversions and cutovers.Coordinates with all responsible users and sites to resolve network or system incidents
- Translates business requirements into telecommunications (e.g., LAN, CAN, WAN, Voice and Video) requirements, designs and orders
- Performs engineering analysis of telecommunications alternatives in support of strategic modernization efforts and telecommunications enhancement design for medium and large-scale telecommunication infrastructures
- Assists telecommunications end users, telecommunications operations personnel, and telecommunications strategic program management with network interfaces
What you need to have Bachelor's Degree and 10 to 12 years of experience; Master's Degree and 8 to 10 years of experience; PhD and 5 to 7 years of experience (in lieu of Bachelor's degree, 6 additional years of relevant experience)
- Clearance: Must possess and maintain a TS-SCI Poly clearance
- Certification: An Information Assurance Technical (IAT) level III baseline certification as defined by DoD 01-M is required
- Cisco certification is required
- Deploy, test and provide ongoing maintenance for numerous types of network devices, interfaces and methodologies
- Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components
- Gather needed data to specify system/component performance and interface requirements
- Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN's, firewall contexts, Traffic Shaping Voice over IP (VoIP), GRE Tunneling, IP Security (IPSec), IP Encryption, Media over IP (MoIP), and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate
- Optimize end-to-end system performance and dataflow management
- Conduct data captures to obtain network performance information
- Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput through design analysis and network performance monitoring tools.
- Provide input to the design of the organization's network and mission architecture