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Network Engineer (Secure Web Portals)

Location: Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Required
Openings: Up to 4
Travel: Local and CONUS TDY travel as approved by the Sponsor
Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

The Sponsor requires an experienced team of network engineers to secure, maintain, and upgrade its public-facing web portals (on the open internet and as Tor onion services) and a specialized network. Both are critical to the Sponsor’s operations, and the team will develop, drive, and deliver solutions that meet technical, operational, and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities

  • Research, develop, maintain, and document the design and implementation of the Sponsor’s public portals and specialized network.
  • Use current internet technologies and services to protect the portals, their visitors, and the network.
  • Work with internal and external teams to define and implement security and operations requirements.
  • Document solution architecture and interfaces, and meet agreed performance SLAs for uptime, concurrent users, and recovery.
  • Monitor applications, maintain status awareness, and plan resolution for failures.
  • Comply with the Sponsor’s Risk Management Framework to mitigate vulnerabilities across the project lifecycle.
  • Provide applications development and programming support, and test new and existing applications and networks.
  • Provide on-call support: report on site within two hours and resolve outages within three hours.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

  • Network engineering with a deep understanding of network protocols and technologies.
  • Managing online public portals or similar technology.
  • Network hardware, software systems, internet networking, and encryption protocols.
  • How browsers interact with websites, and browser security settings.
  • Content Delivery Networks and how they interact with public services and websites.
  • Configuring and maintaining Tor Onion Services.
  • Open and dark web security settings and tools that protect websites and their visitors.
  • Analyzing cyber selector data, system logs, and network traffic; network and browser troubleshooting.
  • Defining, tracking, and reviewing requirements, and documenting network configurations and procedures.
  • Explaining complex technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Highly Desired Skills

  • Configuring VPSs, VPNs, and VPCs.
  • Social media, commercial messaging applications, and mobile technologies.
  • Network monitoring tools; Cisco, Juniper, Forward Networks, VMware, SolarWinds.
  • Python scripting and JavaScript/HTML/CSS web interfaces.
  • Certifications such as Cisco CCNA/CCNP, CISSP, Juniper JNCIA, or Linux/Microsoft network certifications.

This role may require completion of the Sponsor’s medical screening process.

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