Network Engineer - GTRI-CIPHER

Network engineers lead technical teams through Systems definition and requirements engineering, network design synthesis, and Network analysis and the design, implementation, operation and technical management of Systems projects.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct top-down functional analysis and translate requirements into detailed performance design criteria.
• Design and build templates to assist SMEs in providing critical system information.
• Conduct product or system design synthesis translating requirements into physical architectures for Network of low complexity.
• Define/refine internal and external interfaces. -Develop technical reports and diagrams detailing product or system attributes.
• Analyze product or system functionality as defined by requirements.

Additional Responsibilities

Required Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor degree from any accredited university in Information Technology or Cybersecurity
• Comp TIA Security+
• CCENT, CCNA, CCDA, CCNP, and CISSP Certification
• Technical documentation.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 plus years with network architectures with detailed understanding of network and security appliances.
• Installation, configuration and support of network appliances.
• Proven ability to install and configure physical components; routers, switches, firewalls, and VPN gateways.
• Familiar with hardening devices such as DoD STIG’ing and SCAP scanning.
• Expertise in network analysis, management, design, capacity and throughput planning.
• Utilizing network monitoring, management and other tools to ensure network security and optimal performance.
• Experience with Cisco, Juniper, Palo Alto, Aruba, Cisco ISE, and F5.
• Experience with Wi-Fi standards, such as 802.1ac and 802.11ax.
• Experience and understanding with implementation and troubleshooting various routing protocol.
• Experience and understanding with implementation and troubleshooting various switching protocol.
• Experience and understanding with PKI implementation and troubleshooting communications between routers via IPsec.
• Experience and understanding in how to generate CSR (Certificate Signing Request) for various network devices and adding approved certificates to respective network devices afterward.
• Experience and understanding with firewall rules and applications of ACLs.
• Experience and understanding with network load balancers at layer 3 and layer 7.
• Experience and understanding of 802.1X standards.
• Familiar with running and configuring ACAS scans and STIG scans.
• Familiar with hardening systems such as DoD STIG’ing and SCAP scanning.
• Effectively interact via good verbal and written communications with technical Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) and Program Managers.
• On-call support for CONUS and OCONUS requirements.

Travel Requirements

10% - 25% travel

Education and Length of Experience

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 2 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering IT Information Security Management Cyber Security
• 0 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Network Engineering IT Information Security Management Cyber Security

This position vacancy is an open-rank announcement. The final job offer will be dependent on candidate qualifications in alignment with Research Faculty Extension Professional ranks as outlined in section of the Georgia Tech Faculty Handbook

• 5 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree in Network Engineering IT Information Security Management Cyber Security
• 3 years of related experience with a Masters’ degree in Network Engineering IT Information Security Management Cyber Security
• 0 years of related experience with a Ph.D. in Network Engineering IT Information Security Management Cyber Security

U.S. Citizenship Requirements

Due to our research contracts with the U.S. federal government, candidates for this position must be U.S. Citizens.

Clearance Type Required

Candidates must be able to obtain and maintain an active security clearance.