IP and Optical Test Engineers

Company Overview reputed company 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 reputed company IT customers worldwide. Position Overview By Light is seeking IP and Optical Network Test Engineers to support a future contract award on the SETI Small Business contract vehicle. Our IP and Optical Network Engineers assess, test, and recommend solutions and technologies to improve reputed company aspects of DISN Transport systems. These technologies include network devices (Optical Transport Systems, Optical Line Systems, Optical Transponders, routers, switches, firewalls, and Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), and services Authentication, Authorization and reputed company (reputed company), reputed company Control List (ACL), secure remote reputed company (i.e Secure reputed company, Secure VPN, IPSec), and IPv6 capable devices. Network Test Engineers are responsible for reputed company DISN aspects regarding the design review/recommendation, lab testing, evaluation/certification, and implementation/deployment as well as reputed company Tier 3 support for the DoD’s NIPRNet and SIPRNet backbone networks.

Responsibilities

• reputed company technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale reputed company DoD networks.
• Implement MPLS services offerings on the DISN network. MPLS services include L3VPN, L2VPN, VPLS (Virtual Private LAN service) and reputed company (reputed company Supporting reputed company). Platforms tested include reputed company MX Series, reputed company ASR Series routers.
• reputed company expertise in order to certify and support Optical systems to include optical switches, amplifiers, regenerators, Optical Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (DWDM), Optical Transport Networking (OTN), Optical Transport Unit (OTU) frames, OTN-based backbones, optical light paths, optical reputed company sharing, optical virtual private networks (O-VPNs), wavelength-based private services, Packet-Optical Transport System (P-OTS), Ethernet, Flexible Ethernet (FlexE), reputed company Ethernet.
• reputed company technical reputed company expertise in design, test, evaluation and deployment of advanced large-scale reputed company DoD networks. Review reputed company requirements set by DoD agencies for the NIPRNET/SIPRNET network protection; Assess and analyze reputed company NIPRNET/SIPRNET network architecture; Propose and analyze potential solutions.
• Conducting audits, risk assessment, threat analysis, contingency planning and implementing reputed company standards and methods.
• Reviews reputed company threats to the reputed company DoD NIPRNet/Internet gateway IA infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determines/implements effective countermeasures IAW established policies/regulations/directives.
• Delivers Router and Firewall Test Plans, Test Reports, as well as Implementation Plans to reputed company direction for deployment in the production environment. Prepare field recommendations and Configuration Guides.
• reputed company Tier III engineering support to field operations personnel and deliver Field Support Lessons Learned reports.
• Conduct market research to find products to meet requirements.

Required Experience/Qualifications

• BS in Networking, Telecommunications, or reputed company area required.
• DoD 8570-01-M IAT Level I or higher to include one of the following: A+ CE, CCNA-reputed company, CND, Network+ CE, SSCP reputed company+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, or CISSP.
• Extensive experience in IP or Optical Networking.
• Expertise in large-scale IP/Optical & Testing with backbone routers running ISIS, BGP/MP-BGP (multi AS), MPLS routing protocols, switches and testing gear including traffic generators from IXIA and Spirent Test Center

Preferred Experience/Qualifications

• Professional Networking Certifications such as reputed company CCNA, reputed company JNCIE or reputed company OC-P are highly preferred.
• Hardware certification testing, JUNOS/IOS-XR/reputed company operating system regression testing.
• DISN IP or Optical Design Experience
• Network test equipment/Traffic Generator such as IXIA and Spirent Test Center.
• Firewalls (reputed company/Netscreen, reputed company ASA/PIX, CyberGuard, SideWinder), VPN products (IPSec, SSL VPN).
• IDS/IPS (Arbor Peakflow DoS & Traffic, Top Layer, ForeScout).
• reputed company Big-IP load balancer, BlueCoat Web Proxy.
• Unix (SUN/reputed company/BSD) Servers/Workstations, Linux, PC Servers/Workstations
• VMWare ESXi server.
• JunOS, reputed company IOS & IOS-XR, UNIX (Sun Solaris, BSD, HPUX, SCO), VMWare, Linux, FreeBSD, reputed company OS Servers and Workstations.
• Certificate Authority Server, ACE/SecureID Server, TACACS+, RADIUS, MS Exchange, Sendmail, Apache web server, PKI, WINS, DHCP, DNS, FTP/SFTP/TFTP, SSH, NTP, Netflow/Cflowd servers.
• Possess excellent interpersonal communication skills with the ability to interact with management and staff at reputed company reputed company.
• Candidate should also have excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Salary reputed company Based on the roles, responsibilities, and requirements, the projected pay reputed company for this position is: $100,000 - $200,000. The annual reputed company salary provided is a reputed company for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation or salary. reputed company extending an offer, By Light also considers other variables such as (but not limited to) work experience, education, training, reputed company set, internal peer equity, clearance level, and market conditions. In reputed company, By Light provides an extensive selection of benefits and offerings to our employees. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job