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Job Summary:
JCS Solutions has a need for a Network Engineer to join our growing Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!
What’s in it for you:
The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation.
JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post’s Top Places to Work for 2024.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
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Job Summary:
JCS Solutions has a need for a Network Engineer to join our growing Defense Enclave Services (DES) team at Ft. Meade, MD. The DES program is a highly demanding mission and requires expert technical and professional management to support DISA's enterprise Information Technology (IT) services. You will be supporting a large and complex IT discovery, design, and migration effort towards a Single Service Provider model for the Department of Defense. This role will include discovery, analysis, and design activities required to migrate common IT services from multiple large-scale DoD agencies into DoDNet. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!
What’s in it for you:
- Join a premier technology firm specializing in innovative solutions.
- Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work culture.
- Enjoy tremendous growth potential in a high-performing team environment.
- A robust benefits package:
- Health, dental, and vision insurance
- Life insurance
- Short-and-long term disability
- Paid time off (PTO)
- 401k retirement plan with employer match
- Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
- And more!
The specific duties include but are not necessarily limited to the following:
- Designing, maintaining, and operating Local Area Networks (LANs) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), Wireless, Internet connectivity, and Network Security
- Maintain existing network equipment, installing new equipment in plant environments
- 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
- Design solutions, integrate, configure, 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
- Must have flexible working hours to be available to support team when needed to include: occasional on call support (typically one week at a time every two months) or additional hours based on mission need
- Technically strong and able to make quick, sound decisions.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills are a must
- SECRET DoD Clearance
- Must be a US Citizen
- A bachelor’s degree and 8 years of network engineering experience; additional years of experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree
- Must have a DoD IAT level II baseline certification, prior to start (Sec )
- Knowledge of routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, IS-IS)
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, ACL, NAT, Policy Based Routing, SDWAN, QoS, high availability, VoIP, Wireless, DHCP, DNS
- Excellent network hardware troubleshooting experience
- Excellent analytical capabilities including creative problem solving and root cause analysis
- Committed to documentation and organization efforts
- Capable of multitasking while working in a constantly shifting environment with many moving pieces
- Ability to manage multiple responsibilities and assignments simultaneously under strict deadlines with minimal direction at times
- Strong communication skills and ability to multi-task in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of proper procedures, techniques, tools and equipment used to install, maintain and repair wireless communications systems and subsystems. Knowledge of electronic and wireless theory including digital, analog, and circuitry
- Proficiency with Cisco IOS or other IP/transport network protocols and general practices. Expertise in IP technologies, i.e. Networking architectures and methodologies and Voice Services
- Expert Knowledge of IP principles
- Proficiency in at least two or more of the following devices: Cisco routers, Palo Alto Firewalls, Cisco switches, KG175
- Proficiency in at least one of the following tools: Science Logic, Catalyst Center, Ansible tower
- CCNP Enterprise certification preferred
- Experience interpreting, implementing, and assessing DISA STIGs
- Implementing network security controls like firewalls, intrusion prevention systems (IPS), and intrusion detection systems (IDS)
- Configuring routers, switches, and other network devices with security best practices
- Implementing and managing security patches and updates
- Configuring and managing firewalls, VPNs, and other security appliances
- Tuning security devices for optimal performance and security
We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation.
JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post’s Top Places to Work for 2024.
Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!
- Customer Experience: Strive for excellence and delight our clients
- Innovation: Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions
- Accountability: Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery
- Inspire: Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process
- Integrity: Do the right thing, the right way, every time!
- Stewardship: Careful management of something entrusted to us
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