LightGrid is Hiring a Network Systems Engineer in Odenton MD. Active TOP SECRET is required. 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Network      integration, testing, security engineering, and implementation      configuration support.
• Collaborate      with network architects to define and/or continuously improve STIG      compliant configuration baselines, versioning, and compliance tracking.
• Test      and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
• Lead      development of SOPs/TTPs.
• Support      Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
• Support      system performance tuning and enhancements.
• Create      and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP).
• Support      tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
• Active      participation in Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management      activities.
• Participate      in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and      engineering providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to      be deployed into production.
• Perform      highly technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, and load      balancers.
• Provide      expert knowledge of network engineering and operations, large scale      enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network      Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities. Perform highly      technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches,      security solutions, and WANX.

  Required Education & Experience:

Requires BS and 4-8 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 2-6 years of prior relevant experience.  (Or equivalent combination of education and/or experience.)

Core Qualifications:

• Active      DoD clearance at the Top-Secret level with SCI eligibility
• Security+      Certification or other DOD 8570 IAT Lvl II Certification within a certain      timeframe after starting if not starting with one when hired.
• Extensive      knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security      architecture, network topology, IT device integrity, and common security      elements.
• 4+      years’ experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including      extensive routing and switching experience such as one or more of the      following: MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching      protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast      protocols and emerging network technologies.
• Strong      understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.
       Experienced and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents,      analyses, and reports.
• Experience      developing and presenting technical information to senior customer      management, customer stakeholders, and company management.
• Hands-on      experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise      network routing, switching and firewall/security devices.
• Ability      to travel up to 10% OCONUS travel.
• Effective      written and oral communication and problem-solving skills
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Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive      SME level knowledge of network engineering and operations, integration,      test and evaluation activities, as well as implementation and transition      to Network Operations processes and concepts
• Cisco      CCNP Route/Switch and/or CCNP Security
• Experience      and with and practical understanding of enterprise WAN principles.
• Experience      with change, configuration and performance management NetOps concepts.
• IAT      Level III Certification (i.e. CISSP or equivalent).