Tier II Network Engineer

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

This position will require a candidate open to "Panama Shift" work in a 24x7x365 environment.

Perform all duties of Tier 2 network engineer.
• Configure Cisco routers/switches, firewalls, VLANs, MPLS, OSPF, BGP, EIGRP, and QOS; NET APP, IOS-XR software, Cisco Call.
• Develop network design and optimization plans to resolve complex performance, security, reliability and availability deficiencies or problems.
• Advise Government leadership regarding the enterprise-level impacts of implementing new technology or equipment in the JCSE network.
• Make recommendations regarding the evolution of the overall network architecture.
• Perform root cause analysis of incidents and problems; develop solutions that prevent the incident or problem from recurring.
• Identify system architecture issues or methodologies that must be corrected to prevent further incidents from recurring.
• Perform proactive analysis and trend analysis to identify and resolve problems before they occur.
• Investigate diagnosis and perform root cause analysis for enterprise level network problems.
• Develop solutions consistent with JCSE's change/configuration management processes for enterprise level problems.
• Communicate with service providers and other non-JCSE entities as needed to troubleshoot, isolate and analyze complex issues or problems.
• Participate in Configuration Control Board (CCB) meetings and technical exchange meetings when requested by the Government.
• Research, evaluate and recommend solutions to ensure that JCSE's networks retain the highest possible degree of security, reliability, availability and performance.
• Perform detailed research of best industry practices and leading-edge solutions to JCSE's future capability requirements as identified by the Government.
• Perform analysis of alternatives for solutions to complex, persistent network problems in the current architecture or anticipated in future architecture.
• Develop and provide documentation and implementation plans for upgrades and new capabilities.

• Must have CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Must have CCNA or CCNP Routing and Switching certification.
• Knowledge of hardware/software tools required to correct network issues.
• Experience with TCP/IP protocol stacks, wireless architectures and VoIP.
• In depth knowledge on data, voice, and video networks.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field is desired

• Must have active DOD Top Secret clearance.