System Engineer, Level 3

System
Engineer

Location: Ft. Meade, Maryland

Clearance Required: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Salary Range: $220,000 - $265,000 annually

A seasoned systems/network engineer with over 20 hands on years’ experience preferably in an intelligence community environment. 
The candidate should have experience with CISCO switches, routers and firewalls, dell and other servers, network laptops, network debug and analysis tools such as Wirehsark and Tripwire. 
The candidate should also have experience with devices such as Palo Alto, Haipe or other security appliances.

Network security hardening experience
Specific knowledge of CISCO switches, routers and firewalls to include the Cisco 9300 series switches
Demonstrated ability to design and develop rack configurations drawings and network diagrams
Expertise and knowledge of switches, routers, firewalls, security appliances and architectures of network as a service
Network security and network hardening experience in DoD environments
Support for SSP development
Network Troubleshooting
Evaluation of message receiving functions
Assessment of Acks and Nacks
Ability to understand specific functions
Drawing and configuration of racks
Assess if network is configured correctly
Review firewall traffic (use of Packet Tools and Tripwire)
Tools: Wireshark and others
Ability to determine which side of the network problem is from a connection standpoint
Network Requirements Evaluation and developing network diagrams in Visio, PowerPoint and Excel
Physical Network Construction (installation of switches, fiber, cables security devices and more) on SERD for SCS/ESB
Assistance to tamper and concealment group in assessing needs for design and deployed network
HAIPE MTU assessment and review
Fiber installation and removal
Experience with JIRA, Confluence and similar tools

Salary ranges are determined by multiple factors, including but not limited to: Knowledge, skills, & abilities, Years of experience, Education/Certifications, Program placement, Duties & responsibilities, and Internal equity. More detailed information will be provided once those factors are known and addressed.

OVERTIME STATEMENT: 40 hours is the standard workweek. Some programs may allow additional hours to be worked as needed. A limited number of programs have on-call requirements where compensation is provided for being engaged to wait. In all circumstances, technical employees will be paid for all time worked.

BONUS STATEMENT: All billable employees are eligible to earn quarterly bonuses that are based on the number of hours worked for that period. This hourly requirement is roughly 92% of hours available to bill in a given quarter. Quarterly Hours Bonuses are paid out on the same payroll as the time worked in that prior quarter (typically 21 days after the quarter ends.)