Interconnectivity Engineer III

Company Overview

By Light Professional IT Services LLC readies warfighters and federal agencies with technology and systems engineered to connect, protect, and prepare individuals and teams for whatever comes next. Headquartered in McLean, VA, By Light supports defense, civilian, and commercial IT customers worldwide.

Position Overview

Serves as the Communications / Network Engineering Team Leader, including overall leadership responsibility for Communications / Networks Engineers. Resolves complex network problems, operate network analyzers, WAN test equipment and network simulators. Supports and provides site personnel training on network fundamentals and specific network hardware. Performs network services from network design through implementation, maintenance, and upgrading of existing networks. Analyzes network characteristics (e.g. traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes and throughput), troubleshoots

problems and recommends procurement of and / or modifications to network components. Possess advanced written and verbal communications skills. Serves as the single point of contact for all complex Networking requirements. Assists other project members with analysis and evaluation and with the preparation of recommendations for system improvements, optimization, development, and / or maintenance efforts in the following specialties : information systems architecture; networking; telecommunications; automation; communications protocols.

Responsibilities

• Establishes system information requirements using analysis of the information engineer(s) in thedevelopment of enterprise-wide or large-scale information systems.
• Designs architecture to include the software, hardware, and communications to support the totalrequirements as well as provide for present and future cross-functional requirements and interfaces.
• Ensures these systems are compatible and in compliance with the standards for agency IT architectures,and profiles of standards as they apply to the implementation and specific to the solution for the platform,integration with other systems, and the external interfaces.
• Ensures that the common operating environment is compliant with industry Enterprise standards andbest practices.
• Evaluates analytically and systematically problems of work flows, organization and planning anddevelops appropriate corrective action.
• Provides daily supervision and direction to staff.
• Develops engineering drawings for various reasons including site plans, electrical interconnects andmechanical plans for specialized hardware.
• Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers and the realities of commercially available ITproducts, and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the architecture and engineeringteam and COTS products.
• Configure and troubleshoot complex converged networks to increase bandwidth, improve response time,maximize performance, and support global operations.
• Configure complex, end-to-end secure networks, troubleshoot integrated environments, anticipate andrespond to network attacks and implement mitigation techniques.
• Configure and troubleshoot advanced technologies to support service provider networks, such as serviceprovisioning, MPLS, VPNs, service level agreements and advanced security.
• Configure and troubleshoot storage area networks over variety of interfaces.
• Configure complex end-to-end telephony network, troubleshooting and resolving VoIP-related problems.
• Act as the central Point of Contact for the Planning, designing, implementing, operating andtroubleshooting of an organization's wireless network and mobility infrastructure.

Required Experience / Qualifications

Business : Translating business requirements into network specifications

Special Requirements / Security Clearance

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