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By Light Professional IT Services · 5 months ago

Connectivity Engineer III

Fort Meade, MD

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$164K/yr - $198K/yr

12+ years exp

By Light Professional IT Services LLC is dedicated to providing advanced technology and systems for warfighters and federal agencies. The Connectivity Engineer III will perform engineering services for network management, including design, implementation, and troubleshooting of complex networks to ensure optimal performance and security.

GovernmentInformation ServicesInformation Technology

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Resolve complex network problems, and operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators

Perform site surveys, system installations, configuration management, maintenance, modernization, and sustainment of a global Enterprise Network

Perform Connectivity engineering services to pre and post deployment tests

Implement specific network solutions to support server requirements to include load-balancing, VPN’s, firewall contexts, and network address translation (NAT) where appropriate

Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput

Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats

Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale

Work with System engineers, customers, and cross organizational teams to refine requirements

Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations and understand potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow

Perform security testing and design evaluations

Employ Government standards to configure the interconnects between data centers, networks and security boundaries

Draft technical requirements, configuration management, and planning documentation

Perform support to QC, QA, and CM services

Design, integrate, configure, deploy, test and maintain numerous types of network devices, interfaces and technologies to include VPN, VRF, VSS, BGP and OSPF routing, and VLAN

Optimize end-to-end system performance (capacity, margins, data quality etc.) and dataflow management

Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components

Coordinate with the system engineering and dataflow efforts to ensure proper mission operations with minimal down time

Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design

Qualification

Network designNetwork securityWAN implementationNetwork troubleshootingIAT level III certificationITIL V3 FoundationsCommunication skillsTeam collaboration