Network Engineer Security Clearance

Network Engineer with Security Clearance

Altamira Technologies Corporation is a leading provider of innovative solutions to the U.S. National Security community. Headquartered in McLean, Virginia, Altamira serves the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities by focusing on creating innovative solutions leveraging common standards in architecture, data, and security.

• Maintain the smooth operation of voice and data networks.
• Plan, evaluate, coordinate, and perform installation and/or reconfiguration of hardware and software elements of data and/or voice communication networks.
• Maintain technical expertise in all areas of voice and data network hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, firewalls, switches, wireless, etc.
• Propose solutions to management to ensure all communication requirements based on future needs and current usage, configuring such solutions to optimize cost savings.
• Prepare or ensure that appropriate network documentation exists, including operational instructions.
• Provide regular monitoring and network analysis regarding short- and long-range planning for in-house systems.
• Coordinate third-party maintenance for network equipment.
• Design network or portion of network that include selection of hardware and software packages.

• U.S. Citizenship is required.
• enterprise and development network infrastructure.
• Support maintenance, troubleshooting, and corporate network.
• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with TCP/IP, Cisco switches, routers, VLAN configuration, firewalls, VPN, Network Intrusion Device Systems, etc.
• Evaluate, test, install and implement new and existing hardware and software across physical media, protocol stacks, switches, routers, firewalls, intrusion detection devices, and network management components.
• Perform problem isolation and resolution of network problems through troubleshooting and devising effective solutions.
• Install patches and maintain accurate records of program corrections and patch levels.
• Perform network management functions such as network monitoring, network performance measurement and reporting.
• Perform updates to network devices, including Firewalls, NIDS, switches, and routers.
• Support development and maintenance of all required network policies and procedures.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Network Engineering or a related discipline is required. (Four (4) years of experience may be substituted for a degree.)
• Five (5) or more years of Network Support/Engineering experience required.
• Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or similar certification required.
• IA Level II or CND Level II certification preferred (e.g., Security+, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, GCIH, GSEC certifications).

• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with one or more of the following is required:
  Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDS/IPS), log analysis, malware analysis, network traffic flow, traffic and packet analysis.
• Demonstrated experience and/or familiarity with tools used for security analysis (e.g., tcpdump, Wiresharp, snort, ngrep, nmap, strings, hexdump, md5sum, systools) is preferred.
• Experience with Security Event Incident Management, Log Correlation and Network Behavior Anomaly detection systems is preferred.

Mid-Senior level

Full-time

Information Technology

Altamira is an Equal Opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, or protected veteran status.