What are the responsibilities and job description for the Architecture Engineer position at NewGen Technologies?
NewGen Technologies has an opening for a Network Engineer (Campus Area Network/Local Area Network (CAN/LAN)) to support our government customer’s global enterprise networks.
Requirements
Required Clearance: TS/SCI with CI Poly 8570 Compliance
100% onsite in Chantilly, VA
Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years. Required qualifications include the following:
- Must be compliant with DoD 8570 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2 (Security CE)
- 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.
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.
The job duties of the Network Engineer (CAN/LAN) are as follows:
- 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).
