Senior Network Engineer - Edgesource

Company Overview:
For over 25 years, Edgesource Corporation has served as an innovative technology service provider for the Department of Defense (DOD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Department of State (DOS), the U.S. Intelligence Community, Law Enforcement, and other federal, state, and commercial clients locally, nationally, and abroad. From providing boutique technical solutions in support of the DOD Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems (CUAS) mission set to addressing the most critical Cybersecurity threats facing our nation as a prime contractor with the DHS Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), a career at Edgesource is an opportunity to do meaningful, interesting, and impactful work.

Position Overview:
Edgesource is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to join our team of qualified, diverse individuals. This position is located in Herndon, VA with a hybrid work schedule requiring for 1-2 days per week to be performed onsite. The qualified applicant will support the Department of State (DOS) Consular Systems Modernization (CSM) Program, for the Bureau of Consular Affairs (CA). This initiative is intended to modernize and consolidate the operational environment under a common technology framework to better support the services provided to CA’s customers. This position requires excellent interpersonal skills to be able to interact with, support, and influence fellow members of a diverse team within a large program. The candidate’s ability to articulate, coordinate, and execute tasking in support of an Agile Integration environment will be key to success in this role. If challenge, growth, and the ability to have a positive impact on your customer and fellow team members is something that interests you, this job is worth your consideration.

Job Duties:

• Establish and maintain the integration promotional model environment approach and capabilities to be used on the program.
• Support the use of network engineering tools in the integration environments including those used for development, requirements management, test automation, security, monitoring, and configuration management.
• Interpret/define network integration requirements based on architecture blueprints and models.
• Provide network-based solutions and support users in the use of engineering tools used on the program.
• Plans for and maintain integration environment needs based on existing and anticipated work to be performed.
• Work closely with the DevSecOps, Architecture, System Integration Test and Development Teams to ensure that virtual workstations, network appliances and tools are integrated together effectively.
• Coordinate with the government and/or other providers to ensure that adequate infrastructure, network integration and tools are available to support user needs.
• Participate in requirements gathering, management, configuration, test planning and other software/network engineering activities as appropriate.

Required Qualifications:

• Possess an active interim-Secret security clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in a related field and 8+ years of experience or Master’s degree and 6+ years of experience.
• 3+ years’ experience with maintaining similar integration environments.
• Experience with network integration traffic management proxies and appliances (e.g. LTM/F5, Apache, routers, firewalls etc.)
• Experience with understanding and defining network firewall rules.
• Ability to interpret, define and support network security requirements including 1-way and 2-way SSL TLS-1.2 traffic.
• Understanding of network protocols, domain/path-based routing, mutual authentication, and threat detection.
• Fundamental knowledge of LTM VIP routing configurations, iAPP rules, ICAP policies, certificate requirements, etc.
• Experience with actively supporting the requirements and the design of large-scale software systems.
• Experience managing an Integration environment utilizing the IBM Engineering Life-cycle Management (ELM) suite of tools.
• Experience supporting an Agile (Scrum/Kanban) development program.

Desired Qualifications (NOT REQUIRED):

• Experience with DoS on-prem network.
• Experience with cloud-based platforms (e.g. Salesforce, Azure, Okta, Login.gov).
• Experience with on-prem cluster-based platforms (e.g. OpenShift).
• Experience having planned and established a similar engineering environment.
• Experience supporting an Agile software/system integration.
• Experience using IBM CLM/ELM-related and test automation tools.
• Experience using engineering environments and tools that support Agile development, especially SAFe and Confluence.
• Experience working with or supporting a DevSecOps tool chain.

Working at Edgesource:
As an ISO 9001:2015 certified and CMMI Level 3 appraised small business, Edgesource specializes in providing a variety of technical solutions to include software development, database services, enterprise networking, data center virtualization, and management support. We are always seeking top-talent to join our team in helping to address the most critical technical challenges facing our nation.

At Edgesource, we understand that our employees are our greatest asset, and as such we offer a wide array of benefits to support the well-being of our staff to include: 

- Unlimited PTO + 11 Paid Holidays -
- Flexible Work Schedules (Remote / Hybrid) -
- Medical / Dental / Vision / Flexible Spending Account (FSA) -
- 401k Plan with Match -
- Tuition & Professional Development Support -
- Commuter Benefits -
- Bonus & Employee Referral Programs -
- Career Growth Opportunities -

Disclaimer:
Edgesource Corporation is an affirmative action and equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran status, or genetic information. Edgesource is committed to providing access, equal opportunity and reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities in employment, its services, programs, and activities. To request reasonable accommodation, please contact our Recruiting Department by email at staffing@edgesource.com or by phone at (703) 837-0550.

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