Network Engineer III

Responsibilities

Be part of our exciting team supporting a robust, world-wide communications network, providing office automation packages; document and information management tools; and collaboration, voice, and video tools in a secure, flexible, distributed architecture supporting a classified DoD IT system.  Peraton is seeking a Network Engineer to provide design and upgrade efforts encompassing the network infrastructure across a large-scale enterprise Information Technology (IT) program.  Responsibilities include:

• Review and analyze the existing network architecture and provide designs of current/modern WAN/MAN/LAN technologies.
• Recommend best practices such as SDN, Intent-based networking, and network segmentation protocols, etc., in order to improve the existing architecture and meet new networking requirements.
• Design telecommunications circuit specifications.
• Identify the need for routers, switches, and encryption devices to support enterprise services.
• Deliver service catalog items for automatically provisioning network configurations to deliver Infrastructure-as -Code.
• Develop and maintain network architecture specifications and artifacts.

Qualifications

• BS 5+ years of experience, Masters and 3+ years of experience; additional experience may be considered in lieu of a degree
• TS/SCI level clearance is required
• Minimum 5 years of Cisco experience; proven expertise with Cisco network hardware including: routers, switches, firewalls, unified communications equipment
• Proven experience in VMware environments
• Proven experience in virtual and physical Internet Protocol and Fiber Channel networks and routing protocols
• Proven experience designing, optimizing, and troubleshooting LAN, WAN and low bandwidth networks protected by network encryptors
• Information Assurance Certifications consistent with the 8570 IAT Level Ill
• Professional certification in Cisco, VMware, and/or ITIL is desired

Target Salary Range

$86,000 - $138,000. This represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.