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Imagine Next!At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.Job Description:\nParsons is seeking a talented Lead Facility Network Comm Project Engineer to join our growing team!\nWe're looking fo WAN/LAN experience to support a Government Research and Development facility in Boulder, CO. This customer-facing position requires a self-starter that can work independently and as part of a team and possesses strong communication, organization, and collaboration skills. Experience in working with cross functional Government SETAs, FFRDCs, Cybersecurity, Infrastructure, and Capability Integration Development (CID) team members is a plus. There is a minimum onsite support requirement for M-F during core business hours of 9:00am-3:00pm MT. Occasional/infrequent after hours/weekend support may be required.\nWhat You'll Be Doing:\nLead site surveys, technical interchange meetings, and design reviews to collaborate with multiple tenants and external comm providers to identify requirements, risks, and dependencies that drive new or upgrade designs\nLeverage technical experience and in-depth knowledge of the facility communications infrastructure to facilitate, integrate, and test new tenant connections and ensure they meet levied requirements\nManage, maintain, and troubleshoot existing circuits and respond rapidly to planned or unplanned events\nAnalyze existing comm circuits and strategize ways to improve bandwidth and performance to meet growing tenant requirements\nDocument facility comm systems and maintain detailed records using configuration management processes\nFacilitate communication between multiple onsite tenants and external comm providers to ensure solutions and requirements are aligned\nServe as primary facility POC for external comms for anomalies or issues requiring attention or escalation\nFacilitate tracking, stakeholder status updates, and closure updates to external communications efforts\nPerform configuration management oversight and documentation for external communications network environments\nServe as the program representative on technical approval boards for external comm related items\nCollaborate with tenants and external comm providers on outages, testing, upgrades, impacts, risks, mitigation, status, and reporting in conjunction with planned or unplanned events\nWork with tenants and comm providers on external network comm architecture, design, and requirements\nIdentify and provide briefings to stakeholders regarding requirements and scope for external comm efforts\nProvide tenant cyber security teams with requested artifacts to support external comm related cyber tasking to include but not limited to IATT, ATC, and ATO efforts\nFacilitate onsite circuit installs and troubleshooting efforts for new and existing comm connections\nTrack, manage, and provide facility bandwidth metrics to all tenants for design consideration\nPrimary management and technical responsibilities for entire facility ISP solution\nConduct and analyze data captures to obtain network performance information\nConfigure, implement, and test/troubleshoot crypto devices\nDevelop and maintain facility network and equipment operating procedures\nProvide solution guidance for tech refreshes and environment baseline builds\nWhat Required Skills You'll Bring:\n Active Top Secret security clearance\n7+ years of experience in enterprise network systems within DoD, Intelligence Community, or other national security environments, with additional education, training, and certifications able to count towards total years of experience \nBachelors degree, with additional years of experience able to count in lieu of a degree\nActive Security + certification, or equivalent \nExperience integrating solutions into operational classified environments.\nExperience leading cross functional teams to achieve strategic objectives\nKnowledge of dynamic routing protocols such BGP or OSPF\nKnowledge of communication methods, principles, protocols and concepts (e.g., crypto, mesh network, sftp) that support the network infrastructure\nKnowledge of capabilities and applications of network equipment\nKnowledge of computer networking concepts and protocols, and network security methodologies\nAbility to review rack layout diagram and identify network equipment\nKnowledge of information technology (IT) security principles and methods (e.g., firewalls, demilitarized zones, encryption)\nKnowledge of local area and wide area networking principles and concepts including bandwidth management\nKnowledge of how traffic flows across the network (e.g., Transmission Control Protocol [TCP] and Internet Protocol [IP], Open System Interconnection Model [OSI], Information Technology Infrastructure Library, current version [ITIL]\nKnowledge of common network tools (e.g., ping, traceroute, nslookup)\nWhat Desired Skills You Might Bring: \nExperience with network integrations to on-premises and cloud environments utilizing PWAN, MeshONE-T, and Commercial Communications providers.\nOne or more of the following Juniper certifications:JNCIA-Junos\nJNCIP\nJNCIA-DC\nJNCIA-Design\n\nOne or more of the following Cisco certifications:CCNA\n\n Security Clearance Requirement:\nAn active Top Secret security clearance is required for this position.This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!This position will be posted for a minimum of 3 days and will continue to be posted for an average of 30 days until a qualified applicant is selected or the position has been cancelled.Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest-APPLY TODAY!Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. 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