Network Engineer (Secure Web Portals)

About this role

Network Engineer (Secure Web Portals)

Location: Washington, DC Metropolitan Area Clearance: Active TS/SCI with Polygraph Required Openings: Up to 4 Travel: Local and CONUS TDY travel as approved by the Sponsor Type: Full-Time

Position Overview

The Sponsor requires an experienced team of network engineers to secure, maintain, and upgrade its public-facing web portals (on the open internet and as Tor onion services) and a specialized network. Both are critical to the Sponsor’s operations, and the team will develop, drive, and deliver solutions that meet technical, operational, and security requirements.

Key Responsibilities

• Research, develop, maintain, and document the design and implementation of the Sponsor’s public portals and specialized network.
• Use current internet technologies and services to protect the portals, their visitors, and the network.
• Work with internal and external teams to define and implement security and operations requirements.
• Document solution architecture and interfaces, and meet agreed performance SLAs for uptime, concurrent users, and recovery.
• Monitor applications, maintain status awareness, and plan resolution for failures.
• Comply with the Sponsor’s Risk Management Framework to mitigate vulnerabilities across the project lifecycle.
• Provide applications development and programming support, and test new and existing applications and networks.
• Provide on-call support: report on site within two hours and resolve outages within three hours.

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience

• Network engineering with a deep understanding of network protocols and technologies.
• Managing online public portals or similar technology.
• Network hardware, software systems, internet networking, and encryption protocols.
• How browsers interact with websites, and browser security settings.
• Content Delivery Networks and how they interact with public services and websites.
• Configuring and maintaining Tor Onion Services.
• Open and dark web security settings and tools that protect websites and their visitors.
• Analyzing cyber selector data, system logs, and network traffic; network and browser troubleshooting.
• Defining, tracking, and reviewing requirements, and documenting network configurations and procedures.
• Explaining complex technical topics to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Highly Desired Skills

• Configuring VPSs, VPNs, and VPCs.
• Social media, commercial messaging applications, and mobile technologies.
• Network monitoring tools; Cisco, Juniper, Forward Networks, VMware, SolarWinds.
• Python scripting and JavaScript/HTML/CSS web interfaces.
• Certifications such as Cisco CCNA/CCNP, CISSP, Juniper JNCIA, or Linux/Microsoft network certifications.

This role may require completion of the Sponsor’s medical screening process.