Network Engineer III

Clearance Level: Secret Top Three Requirements: The position requires a Bachelor's degree from an accredited college in a related discipline (i.e. EE, CIS, CPE, MIS, IT), or equivalent experience/combined education, with 5+ years of professional experience; or 3+ years of professional experience with a related Master's degree. The position requires an IAT Level II 8570 Compliant Certification such as Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA, etc. The position requires a government security clearance (DoD Secret – minimum, Top Secret - desired); you must be a US Citizen for consideration. Plusses: The position is based in Colorado Springs, CO in the long-term, however, this role must be able to travel to alternate work locations, such as Schriever Space Force Base, Alaska, Guam, Europe, etc., to execute job duties such as deployments. Must have knowledge of network design, development and testing methodologies. Must have an understanding of the OSI Model, TCP/IP, routing protocols BGP and OSPF. Must have network traffic analysis, diagnostic and troubleshooting skills. Must have firewall knowledge in Juniper, Fortinet, and Palo Alto Must have knowledge of UDP multicast, SONET, MSPP, VLANs, GRE Tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs. Must have knowledge of multi-vendor switching routing (Juniper, Cisco), WAN optimizer, TACLANEs, and optical transport equipment. Must be an effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft Office products, especially PowerPoint and Visio. Must thrive and do your best work in a collaborative and agile environment. Day to Day/Project: Candidate will be responsible for learning the planning, deploying, integrating, and testing upgrades to the network to operational sites and help where needed. Candidate will be responsible for traveling to remote locations to perform network installations, perform troubleshooting, and provide status updates to Program personnel.