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Network Designer - Senior

KDA Consulting Inc

Herndon, virginia


Job Details

Full-time


Full Job Description

KDA Consulting is a Disabled Veteran, Woman-Owned, Certified Disadvantaged Small Business, comprised of a diverse team of professionals driven to tackle the demanding National Defense and Intelligence challenges through IT solutions.  We emphasize teamwork and focus on achieving goals to complete deliverables efficiently, on-time, and under budget. 

We are currently seeking a Senior Network Designer to join our team.

 

Primary Job Duties

·         ​Network Engineer with a minimum of 6 years' experience and a Bachelor's or Master’s Degrees with experience in establishing overall strategic network standards and priorities.

·         Provide technical guidance and direction for TCP/IP transport network design and engineering, network routing protocols, advanced virtual networking technologies.

·         Analyze the optimization of network system performance.

·         Oversee the strategic interface of network systems configuration.

·         Assess network engineering technologies, computing systems hardware and software protocols.

·         Provide high-level technical advice and guidance to managers and technical resources on network technologies to meet current and future organizational needs.

·         Identify INFOSEC and COMSEC security requirements for the network.

·         Cisco IOS, including switching, routing, segment routing and other technologies

·         Radio Frequency (RF) and spectrum engineering.

·         Optical networking technology and engineering.

·         Satellite communications engineering.

 

 

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

·         Experience with a variety of network technologies and solution architectures

·         Broad understanding of technical principle, theories, and concepts in the networking field.

·         Knowledge of state-of-the-art systems engineering principles and network design concepts

·         In depth working knowledge of MPLS, TCP/IP, VPN, and IP telephony.

·         Full working knowledge of the OSI model, routing protocols and their application to router configurations

·         Experience in multi-vendor network security environment

·         Experience with routing design, techniques, and protocols such as BGP

·         In-depth understanding of peering, QoS and traffic engineering

·         Cloud experience (AWS (VPC, transit gateway, private link, ELB, etc), Azure (connectivity services – Vnet, virtual WAN, VPN gateway, application protection, application delivery and network monitoring, etc), etc.)

·         Security best practices for firewalls and perimeter security measures including VPN technologies.

·         Continuous integration, test automation and / or SecDevOps on iterative development projects

·         Agile Development methodologies​.

 

 

Job Requirements

·         Active TS/SCI + Full Scope Poly U.S. Government Security is required

·         Bachelor’s Degree

·         Six+ (6) yrs of relevant professional work experience

·         Ability to maintain discretion and confidentiality

·         Strong interpersonal skills, especially the ability to network and establish professional relationships

·         Ability to prioritize, demonstrated strong organizational skills, and ability to meet or exceed deadlines

 

Physical Demands: Position will require frequent sitting, standing, and/or mobility within an office setting.  Employee must be able to use hands to complete work at a workstation/computer, be able to reach, type and manipulate with hands, fingers, and arms; lift and/or move up to 20 pounds; talk, see and hear.

Work Environment: Work is performed on client site in a professional office environment with moderate stress and noise levels.  Position requires employee to effectively use a computer, potentially for long periods of time, and to accommodate potentially frequent interruptions.  Candidate should be both customer-focused and present a team approach to overall work.

Schedule:  Business core hours are Monday through Friday, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET. Standard work hours may vary for this position based upon contract requirements. Position will be located onsite at a customer facility. 

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA): KDA is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, KDA will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations in the hiring process. We encourage qualified individuals with disabilities to apply. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process or to perform essential job functions, please contact our hiring team by email hr@kda-consulting.com. For persons who are deaf, hard of hearing, deafblind, or deaf-disabled, KDA will provide an American Sign Language (ASL) interpreter where needed as a reasonable accommodation for the hiring processes.

EEOC: KDA is an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, or disability status.

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