Principal Systems Engineer - Military veterans preferred

Principal Systems Engineer
Colorado Springs, Colorado



The Principle Systems Engineer will be a primary Network Engineer supporting the program responsible for providing technical support and expertise for the assessment of compliance of information systems with DoD RMF standards (review, verify and validate required DoD IA RMF documentations and artifacts using DoDI 8510.01/DoD Risk Management Framework). Some travel may be required depending on the work to be performed.


Requirements:

• A solid understanding of the OSI Model, TCP/IP, routing protocols BGP and OSPF

• Proven network traffic analysis, diagnostic and troubleshooting experience
• Firewall experience with Juniper firewalls a must and McAfee Sidewinder or Fortinet Fortigate a plus
• Experience in UDP multicast, SONET, MSPP, VLANs, GRE Tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs. - Hands on experience with multi-vendor switching routing (Juniper), WAN optimizer, TACLANEs, and optical transport equipment
• A solid understanding of JUNOS preferred
• Understanding of standard DOD security practices such as, STIG compliance and system accreditation implementation efforts
• Familiar with RMF including hands on work with RMF topics, the assessment of compliance of information systems with DoD RMF standards (review, verify and validate required DoD IA RMF documentations and artifacts using DoDI 8510.01/DoD Risk Management Framework)

Education and Education:

• Bachelor of Science in the Engineering field or significant equivalent experience (i.e. EE, CIS, CPE, MIS, IT. Must possess a DoD 8570 certification at IAT Level II or higher (Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA). Plus 8 years experience in Engineering roles
• Effective communicator with excellent writing and presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools
• Able to work collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers as well as independently at times on large field projects
• Current Active Secret Clearance

Desired:

• Knowledge, skill sets or experience using protocol analyzers/sniffers (such as Wireshark.
• Industry vendor certifications from Juniper (JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE) a must and from Cisco (CCNA, CCNP) a plus.
• Authentication & encryption methods/capabilities (TACACS+, Active Directory, GEM-X), Virtualization technologies such a VMWare vCenter and vSphere.

U.S. Citizenship status is required as this position needs an active U.S. Security Clearance as of day one of employment



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