Network Engineer - Senior Specialist E4 - CAN/LAN Architect

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Top Reasons Why You Want to Work for Radix as a Network Engineer CAN/LAN Architect

• Small Company Culture
• Relaxed Flexible Work Environment
• Competitive Wages
• Medical, Dental, & Vision Premiums 100% Employer Funded
• Short-Term, Long-Term Disability, & Life Premiums 100% Employer Funded
• Company Funded Retirement plan of up to 25% of Base Salary
• 6 weeks of Paid Time Off (PTO)
• Professional Development and Educational Benefits

Job Overview

Network Engineer Campus Area Network/Local Area Network (CAN/LAN) Architects support our government customer’s global enterprise networks. The CAN/LAN service network architecture provides solutions for modernizing network components while supporting service delivery for customer requirements in a mission-focused operational enterprise. Our team is completely replacing a global enterprise network while providing design, engineering, and transition for a wide range of customer network requirements. This is a unique and rare opportunity to build and transition critical operations to a modern service provider network architecture.

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Interpret customer requirements and apply standard design approaches for service delivery. Fully document designs with diagrams, bill of materials, cabling sheets, configurations, and other supporting documents.
• Use our private test lab to evaluate new technologies and capabilities, test proposed changes to production networks, and recreate troubleshooting scenarios to support the production enterprise network.
• Schedule maintenance windows for migrating user connections from legacy to the modern infrastructure transition services with little to no impact on critical data flows.
• Provide technical expertise to Operations engineers and technicians, supporting fault isolation and resolution. Solve tough problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
• Develop secure network designs including configurations that align with Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and enterprise policies. Obtain Authority to Operate (ATO) for new devices, software, and capabilities.
• Supervise (not manage) other network support specialists to plan, coordinate, and implement network services.
• Develop and improve design products, processes, and systems for our team to work efficiently and effectively.
• Although this position is focused on CAN/LAN, this opportunity offers the ability to learn and work on Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS) Wide Area Networks (WANs).

Primary Location:

• Chantilly, VA

Required Qualifications:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Currently active TS/SCI security clearance issued by a U.S. Government Entity
• U.S. Government Adjudicated Full-Scope or Counterintelligence polygraph
• Minimum of 15 years of Network Design/Engineering experience
• Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree
• Must meet DoD 8570 IAT Level 2 certification requirements
• Strong interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively work, and communicate, with all levels of management and individual contributors on the program team
• Technical Qualifications: 
  • Experience specific to network engineering to include Tier III or higher network operations and/or network design and implementation.
  • Prior responsibility for production network hardware configurations for Cisco, Brocade, and/or Juniper.
  • Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard routing protocols in a production network, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
  • Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard switching and trunking protocols in a production network, such as Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), 802.1q, and port-channels.

Desired Qualifications:

• Network eng