Network Test Engineer Senior

LightGrid is Hiring a Network Test Engineer Senior to work at Fort meade, MD, 5 days a week. ACTIVE SECRET Clearance is required.

Responsibilities: The candidate will be responsible for testing engineering solutions for network initiatives. The candidate will also review engineering designs, implementation plans, and support Tier III activities.

· Provide technical expertise in design review, lab testing & test report, implementation plan and deployment of new advanced large-scale complex DoW networks.

· Design engineering enhancements, develop engineering change requests and provide all required documentation in support of Configuration Control Boards (CCB).

· Support mission partners to satisfy the interoperability requirements.

· Evaluate analytically and systematically problems of workflows and network usage, organization and planning and develop appropriate corrective action.

· Analyze existing and planned network solutions and architectures and make recommendations.

· Configure various routers, switches, firewalls.

· Utilize advanced security devices including network encryptors.

· Apply system patches, configuration changes, security patches and third-party updates to maintain systems at a high level of performance, availability, and security.

· Develop detailed test plans, test reports, implementation plans, configuration guides and other technical documentation.

· Deliver timely resolution and document troubleshooting procedures to mitigate impact of issues and improve infrastructure performance.

· Perform incident response tasks and services restoration.

· Assess and analyze current network architecture; propose and analyze potential solutions.

· Review security requirements set by DoW agencies for unclassified network protection.

· Review security threats to the current DoW infrastructure, architecture, and technology and determine effective countermeasures.

· Provide support to the Automation Team.

Provide on-call Tier III support as needed.