Network Engineer - Aruba Platform - 2nd or 3rd shift

Network Engineer - Aruba Platform - 2nd or 3rd shift

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Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace.

The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees solve the most daunting challenges that our customers face. Visit  to learn how we're keeping people around the world safe and secure.

Peraton provides a secure, worldwide, high-performance communications network comprised of real-time interactive applications operating over a dedicated IP backbone with secure services for complex national and worldwide executive-level communications. Peraton provides the O&M of the network infrastructure and its components, integration for development of hardware and software solutions, and task support for the delivery of system, network, software, and security solutions.

Peraton is seeking a driven Network Engineer to join our dynamic Network and Unified Communications Architecture team of network and UC engineers in Arlington, VA. In this role, the work is hands‑on and you will support the creation and review of network designs, conduct hardware evaluations in a lab, and with vendors. We are seeking a proactive candidate who will not shy away from writing a test plan or reading through vendor's technical documents to solve a problem and write a resolution report.

The ideal candidate shall possess either a Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) Certification or a Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) Certification. Specific hands‑on technical experience with Cisco collaboration tools, Cisco Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) / Cisco Call Manager (CM), and Cisco Meeting Server (CMS) and Meeting Server/ VQ is highly desirable.

• Evaluate LAN/WAN performance and capacities to identify problem areas or bottlenecks.
• Perform a variety of network management services related to the operation, performance, or availability of data communications networks.
• Responsibility for overall performance and availability of networks.
• Provide LAN/WAN support with skill in network analysis, integration, and tuning.
• Analyze client LANs/WANs, isolate source of problems and recommend reconfiguration and implementation of new network hardware to increase performance.
• Work with customers and operations staff in scheduling preventive and emergency maintenance to include resolution of customer tickets.
• Support on‑call duty as needed, in response to network outages after 6‑9 months of service.
• Implement networking technologies and concepts such as Layer 2 and Layer 3 protocols.
• Management of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) phones, call managers, and gateways.

• An active/current TS/SCI Security Clearance is required.
• Must be able to support 2nd or 3rd shift hours.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering (or similar technical field) and five (5) years relevant experience; or a Master's degree and three (3) years of relevant experience; or a PhD and zero (0) years of relevant experience; or a High School Diploma/GED and nine (9) years of relevant experience in the above‑cited duties may be substituted in lieu of a completed higher education degree.
• Must possess either a CCNA Certification or a CCNP Certification.
• Must have experience with Aruba products.
• Experience and understanding with Cisco and Juniper devices, VLANs, VPNs, LAN/WAN technologies, and/or routing & switching.
• Experience in two (2) to three (3) of the following areas:
• Network troubleshooting
• Routers/switches
• Cisco IOS/Junos OS
• Firewalls
• Net Scout/Wireshark or any other packet investigation/analysis tools
• Solar Winds…