• The candidate will provide the full range of network services required to manage the day-to-day operations of the DTRA IT computing environment, ensuring reliable, secure, and efficient availability of the current and evolving circuits and networks to include the security stack and remote access services.
• The candidate will lead briefings and technical meetings for a DOD customer.
• The candidate must have excellent verbal and written communication, interpersonal and customer service skills
• The candidate will provide hands-on systems and network engineering. The successful candidate will be expected to interact with the team, customers, Government COR and Government PM. The candidate will play a key role in the architectural and design decisions the team makes and be able to articulate the impact of those decisions to leadership, management and customers (including government and military personnel).
• The candidate will provide technical expertise to help team members engineer, deploy and operate with an understanding of systems and infrastructure dependencies within the enclaves. Candidate will manage the team’s operational and on-call schedule, projects schedules and allocation of resources within the team to include assigning incident tickets, work orders, task within remedy as well as project outside of Remedy. Candidate will closely monitor team metrics to ensure compliance with all contractual SLAs.
• Working with the government team, as the lead member s of the Infrastructure Group, the candidate will maintain the DTRA IT infrastructure, to include all network cabling, crypto devices, fly-away kits, firewalls, routers, and switches across multiple separate networks.
• The Infrastructure Group will maintain the security of all DTRA IT Infrastructure systems and maintain Risk Management Framework (RMF) tasks, to include manually STIGing network devices and ensuring the appropriate documentation for system accreditation is maintained and DTRA keeps their Authority to Operate (ATO). The DTRA IT infrastructure includes all routers, circuits, firewalls, interconnecting cabling, network security equipment, network monitoring equipment, and end user IT equipment.
• In order to mitigate security risks, the candidate will coordinate closely with the government and support team to ensure security upgrades, patches, configurations, and logs are introduced and implemented with appropriate priority commensurate with the level of exposure to potential cybersecurity threats.
• The DTRA IT Infrastructure supports approximately 5000 users using distributed operations between the National Capital Region (NCR) and DTRA Albuquerque, NM and supporting facilities on Fort Belvoir, VA, as well as sites in Albuquerque, NM, Eglin AFB, FL, and a variety of CONUS and OCONUS locations.
• In support of the DTRA IT Systems Administration Group the candidate will coordinate troubleshooting efforts to isolate problems and help bring systems back on-line.
• The candidate will plan, manage, back up, troubleshoot, fix/repair, install OEM and security patches and upgrades, and monitor the health of the DTRA IT Infrastructure with Solarwinds. The candidate will have familiarity with the following Solarwinds modules: NPM, IPAM, NCM, NTA, and SAM.
• The contractor will provide application support to various DTRA offices as designated in Service Level Agreements (SLA) with those offices.
• Candidate must be familiar with DoD IA requirements (STIGs, vulnerability scanning). The candidate should have experience with Cisco routing and switching, Cisco Call Manager, Palo Alto Firewalls (version 7.1 and 8.1), F5, Cisco ISE. Experience with Microsoft Skype for business, VMWare NSX, public or Milcloud, Acano, and TMS deployments all a plus.
• The candidate will support the Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) for the Agency on a 24x7x365 basis, in accordance with requirements for a Defense Agency NOSC and appropriate DoD Directives. Included in this objective the candidate will maintain real-time situational awareness of the DTRA IT infrastructure and supported environments; shall lead restorative actions to ensure all networks remain up and operational. On-call work will be required.

• 10-15 years of experience required.
• Top-Secret clearance required.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II and CCNA/CCNP certification required.

We are seeking a Network Engineer Team Lead to join our DTRA ITSS II contract at their Fort Belvoir, VA locaiton.

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COMPETENCIES

• Establish Focus
• Oral Communication
• Written Communication
• Technical Expertise
• Results Oriented
• Teamwork
• Customer Service

WORK ENVIRONMENT AND PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Location: Fort Belvoir, VA
• Type of environment: Office setting
• Noise level: Medium
• Work Schedule is day shifts Monday - Friday
• Amount of Travel: 10%

PHYSICAL DEMANDS

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; and talk or hear. The employee is regularly required to stand; walk; sit; climb or balance; and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee is regularly required to lift up to 10 pounds. The employee is frequently required to lift up to 25 pounds; and up to 50 pounds. The vision requirements include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception, and ability to adjust focus.

WORK AUTHORIZATION/SECURITY CLEARANCE

U.S. Citizen

Active DoD Top Secret Clearance

OTHER DUTIES

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice and additional certification requirements may be required.

EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY

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