Network Engineer (TS/SCI + Poly)

Chantilly, VA, United States

Description

The DarkStar Group is seeking a Network Engineer with a TS/SCI + Poly clearance (applicable to this customer) to join one of our top projects in Chantilly, VA. Below is an overview of the project, as well as information on our company, our benefits, and our $25,000 referral program.

THE PROGRAM

The DarkStar Group is a member of 100% of the winning teams for the largest technology program in the Intel Community. We've been supporting this customer on many different sub-projects of this program since our founding in 2013. We've grown on this effort by providing the customer with Engineers who have done exceptional work, and we've retained our staff by paying very strong salaries, and working hard to ensure each Engineer is doing work that aligns with their career interest.

THE PROJECT

The Sponsor's office is responsible for building and operating a hybrid-cloud mission infrastructure and

services, hosting COTS, GOTS, and custom applications. The system generally does not make use of the Sponsor's enterprise IT services as such, the Sponsor's office is responsible for the architecture,

engineering, implementation, and operation of the infrastructure components (computer, network, and

storage) as well as enterprise services such as VDI, Active Directory, and audit and logging. The Sponsor requires support specializing in network engineering and digital forensics.

THE ROLE

The Contractor Team shall assist with continuous monitoring of IT systems that are required to sustain Sponsor accreditation of these systems.

The Contractor Team shall coordinate engineering projects including performing technical risk assessment, de-conflict implementations, and resolve technical questions or conflicts.

The Contractor Team shall deploy and maintain network systems.

The Contractor Team shall diagnose network issues and follow troubleshooting procedures for restoring the network to optimal performance levels

The Contractor Team shall gather performance and utilization metrics from infrastructure components and proactively inform the Sponsor when defined thresholds are met.

The Contractor Team shall guide networking engineering efforts in the hardware, software, and virtual infrastructure domain.

The Contractor Team shall maintain up to date network topology drawings.

The Contractor Team shall perform moderately complex network designs and upgrades using existing technology with limited guidance.

The Contractor Team shall perform Tier-3 engineering and support for virtualization infrastructure, consisting of virtual servers, virtual desktops, and automation solutions.

The Contractor Team shall plan network configurations for integration into the network, using knowledge of the performance characteristics of the systems being added to the network and the specifications for network interfaces to insure effective integration and optimal network performance.

The Contractor Team shall prepare technical proposals for presentation to engineering review boards to make changes or add new technologies to the network.

The Contractor Team shall provide system documentation to system security managers to support A&A efforts.

The Contractor Team shall review user requests for upgrades or additions to the network to assess impact on network performance.

The Contractor Team shall shepherd and perform engineering efforts in the areas of Windows and Linux servers, workstations, storage, and virtualization.

The Contractor Team shall support network life cycle stages such as design, configure, test, deploy, and maintain.

The Contractor Team shall utilize network analysis tools to identify performance problems in the network.

The Contractor Team shall diagnose and resolve technical problems with overseas populations.

The Contractor Team shall direct or perform the installation of IT infrastructure as well as the installation and configuration of operating systems and applications.

The Contractor Team shall inspect and test all equipment prior to deployment to respective overseas locations.

The Contractor Team shall make recommendations on the best deployment strategy, considering the Sponsor's business priorities for any application or tool.

The Contractor Team shall provide end-to-end support of field network and forensic capabilities.

The Contractor Team shall provide real-time and 24/7 on-call support to worldwide users.

The Contractor Team shall provide Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and other integrated documentation to support the success of field users and the program.

The Contractor Team shall provide technical support to various Sponsor developed and COTS forensic application developers ensuring the integrity of data flow and enhance business efficiency and insights.

The Contractor Team shall research and recommend systems, equipment and technologies to improve and enhance existing systems.

The Contractor Team shall use application deployment guides and information from application developers to determine the most efficient and performant IT infrastructure components to deploy a particular application.

Required Skills

Demonstrated experience analyzing existing systems and identifying necessary corrective actions and improvements.

Demonstrated experience building, maintaining and troubleshooting gold image hard drives.

Demonstrated experience coordinating and performing security testing.

Demonstrated experience creating network topology diagrams.

Demonstrated experience designing, configuring and troubleshooting Routing and Switching systems (Cisco expertise required).

Demonstrated experience implementing L2 and L3 VPN across an MPLS network.

Demonstrated experience installing, maintaining, and configuring Aspera Enterprise Server and Aspera P2P.

Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of automation solutions

Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and vRealize Suite.

Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of virtual networks and servers and virtual workstations.

Demonstrated experience performing configuration and management of VMware vCenter and VMware NSX-T.

Demonstrated experience performing Hypervisor deployments.

Demonstrated experience using forensic software including Cellebrite, XRY, WinHex, FTK, and Autopsy.

Demonstrated experience with Gateway Redundancy Protocols to include HSRP and VRRP.

Demonstrated experience with network IP address management.

Demonstrated experience with network security such as firewalls and ACL's.

Demonstrated experience with Routing Protocols to include OSPF, EIGRP, and BGP.

Demonstrated experience with vulnerability scanning tools.

Demonstrated experience working in Local Area Network (LAN) environments and Wide Area Network (WAN) environments.

Demonstrated experience working with TCP IP protocol suite, IP subnets and masking, and routing protocols.

Demonstrated hands on experience engineering the design, build, and configuration of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.

Demonstrated hands on experience performing administration, troubleshooting, patching, and support of Linux servers and virtual infrastructure.

Demonstrated hands on experience performing engineering, implementation, and troubleshooting of VMWare virtualization infrastructure.

Demonstrated hands on experience performing risk analysis for proposed IT infrastructure changes.

Demonstrated hands on experience performing system monitoring and analysis, including root cause analysis of system faults and outages.

Demonstrated experience working with vendors on system troubleshooting.

Desired Skills (Optional)

Demonstrated experience explaining protocols, technical procedures and processes clearly and accurately to both technical and non-technical audiences.

Demonstrated experience with Software Defined Networking technologies, such as Cisco ACI and VMware NSX-T.

Demonstrated experience with load balancing technologies, such as F5 BIG-IP and Citrix Netscaler.

About The DarkStar Group

Our Company

The DarkStar Group is a small business that solves BIG problems. We're one of the Inc. 5000 fastest-growing private companies in the US, and our engineers and scientists support the most critical national security missions in Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. Data Science, Software Engineering, Cloud/AWS Infrastructure, and Cyber/CNO are our core areas of expertise. We offer interesting and important work, job security, some of the best and most flexible benefits you'll find in the IC, and salaries so strong that they'll likely surprise you.

Our Benefits

The DarkStar Group offers exceptional compensation and benefits:

very strong salaries;

100% company-paid medical, dental, and vision premiums for you and all dependents;

the ability to get increased salary if you don't need medical/dental/vision;

100% company-paid disability and life insurance benefits;

a generously-funded HSA;

an 8% 401(k) contribution;

31 days of PTO/holidays to start (more with tenure);

the ability to flex time across pay periods without using your PTO;

a generous training budget;

$25,000 employee referral bonuses;

business development / growth incentives; and

top notch company swag.

** We have a huge growth opportunity, so we are offering up to a $25,000 reward for anyone new you refer whom we hire. **

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.

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