Network Engineer, Senior (BGPL)

The Bowen Group a GTSC company seeks a skilled Network Engineer to design build maintain and sustain classified network infrastructure supporting enterprise IT operations across three geographically dispersed government sites including two SCIF facilities serving TS/SCI users.

Location: Washington DC metro area with travel to program locations.

Security Clearance: Current Top Secret with SCI-eligibility and Special Access Programs (SAP) eligibility.

Travel: 25-50% travel to support activities across multiple program locations.

Certifications: CCNA CCNP Security

Salary Range: $00.

Mission

This individual will work with cross-functional teams to ensure reliable secure connectivity across multiple locations.

Qualifications

• 5 years of network engineering experience including in classified environments.
• Bachelors degree in a related field or equivalent experience.

• Working knowledge of routing switching and network security fundamentals.

• Relevant certification (e.g. CCNA CCNP Security).

• Familiarity with ICD 705 physical security standards for SCIF design and accreditation.

• Familiarity with the Risk Management Framework (RMF) per NIST SP 800-37 and NIST SP 800-53 for system security authorization.

Nice to Have:

• Experience supporting cross-domain or multi-level security network solutions.

• Experience deploying networks in newly constructed or renovated facilities.

• Demonstrated experience leading or supporting large geographically dispersed teams.

• Experience supporting Special Access Program (SAP) facilities systems or environments.

Primary duties include:

• Design implement configure test maintain and sustain enterprise network infrastructure and services across all sites.

• Develop logical and physical network designs based on performance availability security and operational requirements.

• Engineer resilient connectivity across sites datacenters cloud wide-area networks and other distributed environments.

• Apply sound principles for addressing segmentation routing switching traffic management and access control.

• Monitor network health capacity latency availability and utilization.

• Troubleshoot complex network issues using structured analysis packet-level inspection telemetry logs and performance data.

• Establish redundancy failover fault isolation and recovery mechanisms.

• Integrate network security controls consistent with zero-trust and defense-in-depth principles.

• Develop repeatable configurations validation procedures automation and infrastructure-as-code practices.

• Maintain accurate diagrams configurations interface definitions operating procedures and change records.

• Participate in change management incident response root-cause analysis and corrective-action planning.

• Collaborate with systems network cybersecurity and operations teams.

• Evaluate technologies based on standards compliance interoperability lifecycle cost supportability and mission suitability.

• Design and implement network automation that standardizes configuration testing deployment monitoring and compliance while reducing human error and accelerating the delivery of reliable network services.

• Support design and integration of video teleconferencing (VTC) and conference room AV capability across all program sites including classified and unclassified variants.

• Support network and security operations center (NOC/SOC) functions including monitoring tools coverage models and 24x7 support where required.

FOUNDATIONAL SKILLS

• Network models packet flow encapsulation and protocol behavior.

• IPv4 and IPv6 addressing subnetting name resolution and address-management principles.

• Layer 2 and Layer 3 networking routing switching and segmentation.

• Transport protocols application traffic patterns and quality-of-service principles.

• Network security encryption access control secure remote access and traffic inspection.

• Wide-area datacenter cloud and software-defined networking concepts.

• High availability redundancy load distribution and failure-domain design.

• Network monitoring telemetry logging packet analysis and performance engineering.

• Scripting automation version control and configuration-management fundamentals.

• Structured troubleshooting and root-cause analysis.

TS/SCI clearance and SAP eligibility are required for this position. Only applicants with a current security clearance will be considered. Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Special Access Program (SAP) Eligibility: Candidates must successfully complete security screening related to foreign contacts foreign interests foreign travel personal conduct and financial responsibility as part of the SAP access determination process.

Benefits

We offer a comprehensive benefits package for Full-time Employees to include the following:

• Health dental vision insurance.
• Generous paid vacation and holiday leave.
• Flexible Spending Account (medical and dependent).
• 401(k) with employer match.
• Life insurance.
• Short-term and long-term disability.
• Tuition assistance and professional development opportunities.

The Bowen Group is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting hiring and promoting qualified people of all backgrounds regardless of sex; race; color; creed; national origin; religion; age; marital status; pregnancy; physical mental or sensory disability; sexual orientation; gender identity or any other basis protected by federal state or local law. Learn more about your EEO rights as an applicant.

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Required Experience:

Senior IC