What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Network Engineer (Active Secret) position at Maania Consultancy Services?
CLEARANCE REQUIREMENT:
- Must have an active DoD Secret clearance. (US Citizenship required)
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Provide thought leadership to team of network engineers, actively identifying opportunities for improvement including innovations aimed at improving the user experience, improving efficiencies, and lowering sustainment costs.
- Design, maintain, and operate Wireless and Local Area Networks (LANs/WLAN) and Wide Area Networks (WANs), using Infrastructure as Code and Ansible Automation Platform
- Automate network changes on across various vendor platforms and Azure Cloud
- Provide inputs to the design of the enterprise’s network and mission architecture
- Evaluate network architectures across platforms to ensure alignment to cloud and network modernization strategies, capabilities and requirement sets
- Enforce security best practices and guidelines, leveraging knowledge of security policies, network security, and data security
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS:
- Bachelor’s degree and 12 years of prior relevant experience
- Experience designing, deploying, and operating software defined networking solutions
- Expert understanding of networking in the areas of LAN, WAN, TCP/UDP, IPSec, VPN, proxies, routing (L2/L3), firewalls and software defined networking
- Experience implementing dual-stack networking to use both IPv4 and IPv6 addresses simultaneously
- Understanding of Federal Government application, server, and network security requirements such as NIST, FedRAMP, and FISMA
- Ability to work effectively within a distributed technical team, aided by strong written and verbal communication skills
- Familiarity with the Atlassian suite, including Jira and Confluence
- Current IAT Level II (or higher) Certification such as Security or CISS
