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Our customer, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), acts as the provider of GIG/Defense Information System Network (DISN) services to its customers, the department of Defense (DoD) and national security organizations. The Network Engineer will perform sustainment, maintenance, and Problem and Change management services to help ensure secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of the networks.\n(This role is considered \"Mission Essential\" and may require supporting rotating shift work, which includes nights and weekends.)\nResponsibilities will include, but not be limited to:\nExecute network operations to include configuration and analysis of customer circuits across optical and electro-optical multiplexers, routers, and switches. \nPerform real-time circuit redesign (alternate routing) to restore customer connectivity during scheduled and unscheduled outages and maintenance actions. \nWork directly with internal and external customers, external government agencies, and other engineering tiers to ensure maximum network availability to minimize or eliminate mission and operational impact.\nProactively monitor network alarms across platform specific network management tools.\nPerform a variety of change management tasks which include hardware replacement, software configurations, and ASI management. \nUtilize incident management applications to document all aspects of reported outages/degradations, isolations, escalations, and resolutions during the lifecycle of a service impacting network incident.\nAssess, identify, and recommend resolutions to various network incidents and/or deficiencies leveraging knowledge in one or more of following: routers, switches, crypto devices, routing, CISCO, Juniper, MSPP, optical transport network, MPLS, time division multiplexing, and SDH/SONET. \nMinimum Qualifications:\nU.S. Citizenship.\nAn active, in-scope US Government issued Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility. \nCurrent DoD-8570 IAT Level 2 baseline certification (Security+ CE, or equivalent).\nAble to work in a 24x7 shift work environment.\nWorking knowledge of both Transport and IP network topologies.\nDesired Qualifications:\nTech control facility or cyber transport experience.\nCircuit actions and vendor experience.\nIP/Transport architecture experience.\nSolarwinds and JIRA experience.\nTelco NOC, inside or outside plant experience.\nExperience with MS Office suite, i.e. Outlook, Excel, Word, Access, PowerPoint, TEAMs.\nExperience with one or more of the following: alarm surveillance, fault management, LAN maintenance, performance management, change management.\nEducation/Experience:\n Requires a Bachelor's degree and 2-4 years of prior relevant experience or a Master's degree with less than 2 years of prior relevant experience. 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