Network Engineer

Required Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

The Contractor shall have the following required skills, certifications, and demonstrated experience:

• Demonstrated experience designing and supporting protected networks that enable secure virtual activities and communications.
• Demonstrated experience successfully integrating various secure network infrastructure components and services to include bare metal and cloud systems, ISPs, proxies, commercial and custom VPN solutions, as well as TOR.
• Demonstrated experience creating secure network solutions that reliably address requirements of commercial user validation services and two-factor authentication requirements.
• Demonstrated experience in virtualization technology, VDI environments, Linux System configuration, and BIOS configuration.
• Demonstrated experience deploying application servers (Wireguard, OpenVPN, Wordpress webservers, etc).
• Demonstrated experience establishing and leveraging API accesses.
• Demonstrated experience hardening COTS mobile and computer equipment against malware, adtech, "leaky" software, geo-tracking, and forensic inquiry or investigation.
• Demonstrated experience testing and evaluating software packages.
• Demonstrated experience preparing written and graphical documentation for technical reviews, management briefings, and user guides.
• Demonstrated experience communicating complex technical topics to non-technical individuals.

Highly Desired Skills and Demonstrated Experience:

Skills and demonstrated experiences that are highly desired but not required to perform the work include:

• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor's internal technical requirements, technology challenges, and mission goals.
• Demonstrated experience with the Sponsor's internal IT accreditation processes.
• Demonstrated experience working with Sponsor or Sponsor's partners for computer network enabled tools deployment.
• Demonstrated experience training users on operation and maintenance of secure network systems.
• Demonstrated experience with commercial encryption and secure message systems.
• Demonstrated experience employing network management and monitoring tools, or willingness to learn.
• Clearance: TS/FS Poly