Network Engineer SME

Company: Perspecta
Location: Columbia
Posted on: October 15, 2020

Job Description:

Business Group Highlights

DefenseThe Defense group supports the Department of Defense (DoD) mission to keep our homeland and its citizens safe. We provide solutions to improve the Nation's defense by providing software, systems engineering, IT, training and logistics and fleet management solutions.
Responsibilities

• The Network Engineer SME designs and plans network communications systems.
• Provide specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture.
• Conduct cost/benefit analysis and provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.
• Conduct testing of network design.
• Responsible for monitoring network hardware operations to ensure properly set configuration options.
• Plan implementation of enhancements and upgrades to the network.
• Advise network users of hardware requirements, configurations, and limitations.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as such as Intrusion Detection System (IDS), Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.
• Evaluate and report on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.
• Conduct system administration, installation, troubleshooting, configuration, maintenance, backup and restoration support for network defense sensors and scanners, including all hardware and software.
  Qualifications
  
  Required:--- Requires 8 to 10 years with BS/BA, 6 to 8 years with MS, or 3 to 5 with a PHD degree in related fields, such as computer science or technical discipline. --- IAT level II certification - Network+ or Security+; Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) & ITIL--- Cyber operations and Computer Network Defense experience--- Good oral and written communication skills. --- Ability to work on several projects or issues simultaneously.--- Ability to work independently or in a team environment, as needed.--Desires: --- Familiarity with network operations program's governing directives.--- Understanding of the U.S. Air Force's ranks, structure, and operations. --- Experience with Enterprise Security Manager toolset--Location:Sumpter, SC / Shaw AFB
  About Perspecta
  
  What matters to our nation, is what matters to us. At Perspecta, everything we do, from conducting innovative research to cultivating strong relationships, supports one imperative: ensuring that your work succeeds.-- Our company was formed to bring a broad array of capabilities to all parts of the public sector-from investigative services and IT strategy to systems work and next-generation engineering.--Our promise is simple: never stop solving our nation's most complex challenges. And with a workforce of approximately 14,000, more than 48 percent of which is cleared, we have been trusted to do just that, as a partner of choice across the entire sector.--Perspecta is an----Employer - Minorities/Women/Veterans/Disabled and other protected categories.--As a government contractor, Perspecta abides by the following provision--Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision--The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant.-- However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of the other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor's legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c).

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