The Senior Network Engineer at United States Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) plays a pivotal role in supporting the command's mission by designing, implementing, and maintaining robust and secure network infrastructures. This position is critical in ensuring reliable communication, data transmission, and network security across USSOUTHCOM's operational environments.
Responsibilities:
- Diagnose, Design, Document, and Implement evolving networks/architectures for hybrid on-prem-cloud-based operating models, ensuring interoperability, defensibility, high availability, scalability, and performance.
- Collaborate with USSOUTHCOM Enterprise architects to understand the networking requirements of hybrid on-prem-cloud-based Mission Partner Specific services and applications and develop networking platform designs accordingly.
- Configure and deploy network devices, including routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and virtual network appliances, to support hybrid on-prem-cloud-based infrastructure.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate hybrid on-prem-cloud-based services with the existing network infrastructure (at USSOUTHCOM and other Combatant Commands), ensuring seamless connectivity, interoperability, defensibility, and data flow.
- Develop, implement, and maintain relevant documentation, guidelines, checklists, and policies to promote continuous interoperability, ensure and improve defensibility & cybersecurity compliance, and reduce the possibility of "human error".
- Manage VNet peering, connectivity, gateway transit, BGP implementation, NAT/SNAT for platforms.
- Provision, manage, and operate hybrid on-prem-cloud-based public IP addresses, Bastions, Network Security Groups, Application Security Groups, Route tables.
- Provision, manage, and operate hybrid on-prem-cloud-based networking components and services using IaC (ARM templates, Azure Bicep, Terraform, Azure CLI, PowerShell, etc.) for Empower platforms, developers, and teams. Examples of services include hybrid on-prem-cloud-based Firewall, Gateways, Connections, VPNs, Express Routes, Virtual Networks, SDN, and more.
Required Technical Skills:
- Certification Requirement: Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) & CompTIA Security+
- 10+ years deploying, managing, supporting, and securing complex & diverse on-prem networks, environments, and workloads
- 1-3 years in a hybrid on-prem-cloud-based network engineering role
- Strong understanding of core networking and connectivity topics surrounding internet-based applications (DNS, load balancers, VPN, VLAN, etc.)
- DoD Networks & Environments
Certification Nice to Have:- AZ-700: Designing and Implementing Microsoft Azure Networking Solutions, or other cloud-based certifications