By Light Professional IT Services ยท 6 months ago
IP and Optical Test Engineers
Fort Meade, MD
Full-time
Onsite
Mid Level
$100K/yr - $200K/yrBy Light Professional IT Services LLC is dedicated to equipping warfighters and federal agencies with advanced technology and systems. They are seeking IP and Optical Network Test Engineers to enhance the DISN Transport systems through assessment, testing, and solution recommendations, while also providing technical expertise and Tier 3 support for DoD networks.
GovernmentInformation ServicesInformation Technology
Responsibilities
Provide technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex DoD networks
Implement MPLS services offerings on the DISN network. MPLS services include L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS (Virtual Private LAN service) and CsC (Carrier Supporting Carrier). Platforms tested include Juniper MX Series, Cisco ASR Series routers
Provide expertise in order to certify and support Optical systems to include optical switches, amplifiers, regenerators, Optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Optical Transport Networking (OTN), Optical Transport Unit (OTU) frames, OTN-based backbones, optical light paths, optical spectrum sharing, optical virtual private networks (O-VPNs), wavelength-based private services, Packet-Optical Transport System (P-OTS), Ethernet, Flexible Ethernet (FlexE), Carrier Ethernet
Provide technical security expertise in design, test, evaluation and deployment of advanced large-scale complex DoD networks. Review security requirements set by DoD agencies for the NIPRNET/SIPRNET network protection; Assess and analyze current NIPRNET/SIPRNET network architecture; Propose and analyze potential solutions
Conducting audits, risk assessment, threat analysis, contingency planning and implementing security standards and methods
Reviews security threats to the current DoD NIPRNet/Internet gateway IA infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determines/implements effective countermeasures IAW established policies/regulations/directives
Delivers Router and Firewall Test Plans, Test Reports, as well as Implementation Plans to provide direction for deployment in the production environment. Prepare field recommendations and Configuration Guides
Provide Tier III engineering support to field operations personnel and deliver Field Support Lessons Learned reports
Conduct market research to find products to meet requirements
Qualification
Required
BS in Networking, Telecommunications, or related area required
DoD 8570-01-M IAT Level I or higher to include one of the following: A+ CE, CCNA-Security, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, or CISSP
Extensive experience in IP or Optical Networking
Expertise in large-scale IP/Optical & Testing with backbone routers running ISIS, BGP/MP-BGP (multi AS), MPLS routing protocols, switches and testing gear including traffic generators from IXIA and Spirent Test Center
Preferred
Professional Networking Certifications such as Cisco CCNA, Juniper JNCIE or Ciena OC-P are highly preferred
Hardware certification testing, JUNOS/IOS-XR/Ciena operating system regression testing
DISN IP or Optical Design Experience
Network test equipment/Traffic Generator such as IXIA and Spirent Test Center
Firewalls (Juniper/Netscreen, Cisco ASA/PIX, CyberGuard, SideWinder), VPN products (IPSec, SSL VPN)
IDS/IPS (Arbor Peakflow DoS & Traffic, Top Layer, ForeScout)
F5 Big-IP load balancer, BlueCoat Web Proxy
Unix (SUN/HP/BSD) Servers/Workstations, Linux, PC Servers/Workstations
VMWare ESXi server
JunOS, Cisco IOS & IOS-XR, UNIX (Sun Solaris, BSD, HPUX, SCO), VMWare, Linux, FreeBSD, Microsoft OS Servers and Workstations
Certificate Authority Server, ACE/SecureID Server, TACACS+, RADIUS, MS Exchange, Sendmail, Apache web server, PKI, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP/SFTP/TFTP, SSH, NTP, Netflow/Cflowd servers
Possess excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to interact with management and staff at all levels
Candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication skills
Company
By Light Professional IT Services
BY LIGHT Professional IT Services is a provider of IT, cloud, cyber and infrastructure solutions to the US Federal Government.
Founded in 2002
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
By Light Professional IT Services has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
reference. (Data Powered by US Department of Labor)
Distribution of Different Job Fields Receiving Sponsorship
Represents job field similar to this job
Trends of Total Sponsorships
2025 (3)
2024 (1)
2023 (1)
2022 (1)
2020 (1)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2017-05-31Acquired
Leadership Team
Bob Donahue
CEO By Light
Mike Bowser
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
2026-01-07
2025-12-01
2025-10-09
Company data provided by crunchbase