network engineer - Colorado Springs, United States - QTEC Aerospace

Description

Job Description

QTEC Aerospace is seeking multiple NETWORK ENGINEERS to join our team of professionals in Colorado Springs, CO. The successful candidates will become part of a team of professionals representing both industry and government in support of a Missile Defense System (MDS) with a mission of protecting the United States and our allies. The successful candidates will be detail oriented, have a proven track record and a positive work ethic.

Job Summary

QTEC Aerospace is looking for highly capable and motivated individuals. The successful candidates will function as an integral member of a multi-contractor team providing program, engineering, and technical support to Missile Defense programs.

Job Duties/Responsibilities

Responsibilities will include, but may not be limited to the following:

• Planning, deploying, integrating, and testing upgrades to the program network to operational sites
• Traveling to alternate work locations, such as Schriever Space Force Base, Alaska, Guam, Europe, etc., to lead and perform network installations, independently perform troubleshooting, and provide status updates to Program personnel

Minimum Education and Experience

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in a related discipline (i.e., EE, CIS, CPE, MIS, IT) or equivalent combination of education and experience, with at least 5 years of professional experience or a related Master's degree with at least 3 years of professional experience
• The position requires an IAT Level II 8570 Compliant Certification such as Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA, etc.

Required Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Proven network engineer with hands-on mid-level experience and knowledge of network design, development, and testing methodologies
• Understanding of the OSI Model, TCP/IP, routing protocols BGP and OSPF
• Must have network traffic analysis, diagnostic, and troubleshooting skills
• Must have firewall experience, especially Juniper, Fortinet, and Palo Alto
• Demonstrated experience in UDP multicast, SONET, MSPP, VLANs, GRE Tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs
• Hands-on experience with multi-vendor switching routing (Juniper, Cisco), WAN optimizer, TACLANEs, and optical transport equipment
• Must thrive and work in a collaborative and agile environment
• Must understand standard DOD security practices such as STIG compliance and system accreditation implementation efforts
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills, including ability to collaborate with cross-functional teams, and prepare and brief presentations to the customer using Microsoft Office products, especially PowerPoint and Visio as needed
• Self-starter with ability to work both independently and in a team environment

Desired Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Familiarization with virtualization technologies - NFV, SDWAN, VMware, VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, vSAN, and Aria
• Experience with network automation using Ansible
• Top Secret security clearance

Security Clearance

Candidates must currently have and be able to maintain a minimum DoD SECRET level security clearance.

Salary Range

$120,000 - $183,000

Employees may be eligible for a discretionary bonus in addition to base pay. Annual bonuses are designed to reward individual contributions as well as allow employees to share in company results.

Benefits

QTEC Aerospace offers a variety of benefits including healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, Company paid holidays and paid time off (PTO) for vacation and/or personal business. Employees may choose among the offered benefits to design the best benefits package to suit their individual or family needs.

Location

Colorado Springs, CO

It is the policy of QTEC, Inc. not to discriminate on the basis of gender, age, race, religion, disability, veteran status or any protected statuses and to take affirmative action to employ and advance in employment qualified individuals within the company.