Network Engineer/Architect (TS/SCI with Polygraph)

At Criterion Systems, we developed a different kind of business—a company whose real value is a reputation for excellence built upon the collective skills, talents, perspectives, and backgrounds of its people. By accepting a position with Criterion Systems, you will join a group of professionals with a collaborative mindset where we share ideas and foster professional development to accomplish our goals. In addition to our great culture, we also offer competitive compensation and benefit packages, company-sponsored team building events, and advancement opportunities. To find out more about how Criterion can help you take your career to the next level please visit our website: Criterion Systems is a Military/Veteran Friendly Company therefore we encourage Veterans to apply.

We are looking for a Network Engineer to support our government customers' success in Herndon, Virginia!

***FULL SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED***

Responsibilities

As a Network Engineer, you will support a program delivering engineering services for network infrastructure as well as sophisticated enterprise computing infrastructure including end-point devices, data center hosted servers, multi-Cloud services as well as virtualized applications, and storage systems.

Duties, Tasks & Responsibilities

Enterprise Computing Engineering services include modern application technology with containerized solutions and orchestrated work-flow that function both on customer premise, and via remote Cloud services.

Network infrastructure engineering services are comprised of core infrastructure, voice and video engineering, field engineering, application management and development for networks, network analytics, firewalls, network access controls and bandwidth service delivery.

Qualifications

Required Experience, Education, Skills & Technologies

Full security clearance (active TS/SCI with an adjudicated Polygraph)

Eleven (11) years of network engineering experience

A Bachelor's degree, preferrably in one or more of the disciplines described below where specific skills may include the following:

TCP/IP transport network design and engineering, network routing protocols, advanced virtual networking technologies

Performing upgrades and performing routine network operations and maintenance (O&M).

Identifying and implementing INFOSEC and COMSEC security requirements for the network.

Complex configuration management techniques and requirements for managing network systems

Network operating and maintenance concepts and methods used to troubleshoot network problems for LAN, WAN, VPN, SD-WAN and VoIP

Cisco IOS, including switching, routing, segment routing and other technologies

Radio Frequency (RF) and spectrum engineering

Optical networking technology and engineering

Satellite communications engineering

Preferred Experience, Education, Skills & Technologies

Variety of network technologies and solution architectures

Broad understanding of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the networking field.

Knowledge of state-of-the-art systems engineering principles and network design concepts

Virtualization experience (VDI & VMWare)

Cloud experience (AWS, Azure, etc.)

Security best practices and implementing firewalls and perimeter security measures including VPN technologies

Continuous integration, test automation and / or SecDevOps on iterative development projects

Agile Development methodologies

Cisco Certifications: CCNA or CCNP

Security Clearance Level

Full clearance - TS/SCI with an adjudicated polygraph

Certification

None

Work Schedule

Full-time on-site at a designated facility.

Benefits Offered

Medical, Dental, Vision, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability, 401(k) match, Tuition/Training Assistance, Parental Leave, Paid Time Off, and Holidays.

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