Senior Network Engineer

Hoplite Solutions is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to provide network and systems administrator support to the Defensive Network Operations (DNO) program for the development and maintenance of the Innovation and Training Center for mission customers. The DNO program provides trained and equipped remote and deployed teams and operations mangers to conduct cybersecurity assessments in support of intelligence customers the Defense Industrial Base and Critical Networks and Systems sectors. As well as conducts the following types of assessments in support the mission customer : Strategic Vulnerability Assessment (Blue Team) Adversary Emulation (Red Team) Target Hunt Incident Response Joint COMSEC Monitoring and Operations Management. We are looking for a network engineer to support Cyber Security Defensive Operations with configuration of Cyber Range consisting of 10s to 100s of VMs physical and virtual network devices and firewalls utilizing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) Terraform Ansible VMWare and other automation technologies. You will work closely with Hunt Red and Blue Team operators to understand their desired configurations for the Cyber Security Range to support training force on force exercises and mimicking of customer infrastructures. You will work with a team of other Software Engineers System Administrators Network Engineers and Systems Engineers supporting the Cyber Range and develop innovative solutions to complex problems.

You will be part of a larger development team supporting the Cyber Security Directorates Defensive Network Operations organization with direct mission support activities when not working on the Cyber Range.

Responsibilities :

Providing Tier 1 / 2 / 3 technical services to perform daily monitoring and troubleshooting of the Innovation and Training Center components

• Provide maintenance and support for active usage of the Innovation and Training Center this includes building physical and virtual instances for lab exercise training and other use tearing down the instances after use is completed and preparing Innovation and Training Center for the next use;
• End user support and troubleshooting during all uses of the Innovational and Training Center;
• Provide installation upgrade maintenance and support patching troubleshooting and removal of Innovation and Training Center hardware including servers switches routers and firewalls;

Configure and administer next generation firewalls (e.g. Palo Alto McAfee) and suggest new rules routines and indicators of compromise.

Implement a health and status monitoring solution and

Setup and assist with Microsoft Environments (e.g. Group Policy Active Directory etc.) container technologies like Docker and Gluster / libvirt Linux knowledge / abilities and similar technologies.

Qualifications :

Bachelors degree plus 8-years of relevant experience or Masters degree plus 6-years of relevant experience or an Associates degree plus 10-years of relevant experience or high school diploma / GED plus 12-years of relevant experience may be considered.

Degree must be in Network Engineering Systems Engineering Information Technology or related field.

Relevant experience must be in computer or information systems design / development programming information / cyber / network security vulnerability analysis penetration testing computer forensics information assurance and / or systems engineering. Additionally must have experience in network or system administration.

TS / SCI clearance with polygraph

Current experience with management of virtualized infrastructure to include multi-node and multi-site networks

Experience with networking and virtualization

Experience with building and maintaining networks consisting of physical and virtual equipment

Experience with standard network services DNS DHCP NTP Syslog etc.

Experience configuring and administering next-generation firewalls (e.g. Palo Alto McAfee)

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

Experience with scripting languages such as Bash PowerShell Batch and Python

Experience with Terraform and Ansible

Experience with Puppet Kickstart Packer

Experience with cybersecurity tools network configurations and operational tools

Knowledge of operating systems including Windows and Linux application behaviors and network traffic analysis

Experience in a fast-paced environment and working with flexible customer requirements

Desired Qualifications :

Experience operating in an agile development environment and DevOps

Experience with container technologies such as Kubernetes and Docker

Knowledge of penetration testing or red team operations

Experience utilizing and development with Splunk

Experience with Nutanix

Defensive Cyber Security Operations

At Hoplite Solutions we pride ourselves on offering competitive salaries and a comprehensive benefits package. This includes full coverage for health dental and vision insurance for both individuals and families along with 100% coverage for life insurance long-term and short-term disability. Additionally we match up to 7% of employees contributions to their 401(k) funds and follow the federal holiday calendar for paid holidays. With 4 weeks of paid time off $5000 yearly for education assistance or technical training and $3000 yearly toward student loan repayment or a 529 College Savings Plan were dedicated to supporting our employees professional and personal growth.

Required Experience :

Senior IC

Key Skills

EIGRP,Load Balancing,Routing Protocols,Network Engineering,BGP,LAN,Computer Networking,IPsec,OSPF,Cisco ASA,Juniper,MPLS

Employment Type : Full-Time

Experience : years

Vacancy : 1