Job Title: Sr. Specialist, Network Systems Engineering
Job Code: 16899
Job Location: Greenville, Texas
Schedule: 9/80 reg with every other Friday off
Job Description:
The Senior Specialist, Network Engineer (NE) performs technical planning, system integration, verification and validation, and troubleshooting for total systems and or subsystems. The Sr. Specialist NE is part of a team that supports the requirements, design, development, test, and integration of complex, specialized hardware/software systems installed on ground and airborne communication platforms.
Essential Functions:
- Assist in the design and development of physical and logical network architectures incorporating voice, video, and data capability across multiple security domains
- Maintains networks (both LAN & WAN) connecting airborne and ground systems via terrestrial and BLOS (Beyond Line of Sight) circuits
- Translate the voice of the customer into system level requirements
- Perform requirement traceability methods and purpose
- Assist and or perform systems engineering trade studies
- Assist in the evaluation of trade studies for accuracy and completeness
- Write subsystem specifications based on system level requirements
- Evaluate alternative solutions and establish preliminary system design
- Review and evaluate diagrams to ensure design details trace to system requirements
- Develop and execute network test procedures ensuring system performance and capabilities meet system requirements
- Prepare effective presentations to communicate technical network information to non-technical professionals
- Collaborate with multiple disciplines of engineering, to design a cohesive creditable multiple security domain network, and integrate the resulting design in a MILSTD based development environment
Qualifications:
- U.S. Citizenship
- Active Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance
- Bachelor's Degree and minimum of 6 years of relevant experience or Master's Degree with a minimum of 4 years of relevant experience.
- Intermediate knowledge and experience in network (LAN/WAN) design incorporating industry standard security best practices; NIST framework
- Intermediate network engineering experience including IP addressing, switching and routing, VLANs, VPNs, video teleconferencing, VoIP telephony, and LANs/WANs
- Intermediate experience in routing protocols including RIP, EGIRP, OSPF, and BGP
- Certification and Accreditation process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate on government networks
- DODAF knowledge
- Configuration, integration, and troubleshooting of routers, switches, voice, and video teleconferencing equipment
- Excellent written, oral, and presentation communication skills
- Experience developing, authoring, and implementing software and system test plans in a team environment
- Experience working successfully both independently and in a team environment with the ability to lead small test teams through an entire build cycle
- Hands-on experience with testing, integrating, and verifying software and/or hardware
Preferred Additional Skills:
- Current Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) certification
- Experience with Kubernetes deployment/administration
- Experience with SATCOM solutions/protocols
- Experience with HAIPE devices is also a plus
- RedHat Enterprise: Linux
- Experience working with subcontractors and US Government customers
- Assessment and Authorization (A&A) process and implementation of systems that achieved an Authorization to Operate (ATO) on government networks DODAF knowledge
- Experience working government and/or military programs
- Excellent written, oral communications skills
- Willingness to travel