Network Engineer

Job Description:

Apex Systems has an immediate need for a skilled Network Engineer to work onsite here in Ft. Meade, MD. This is a contract engagement with the duration of at least 12 months. Selected candidate must be able to work on-site, 5 days a week on Apex Systems direct W2 with an ACTIVE secret clearance. If you are interested, please respond with your most recent resume and best time you can be reached. Looking forward to hearing back from you.
Program Summary: 

Plan and design secure network solutions to consolidate connectivity services under an enterprise service

Partner with key stakeholders and technical experts to perform legacy environment discovery, assessing current capabilities, configurations, and unique requirements to develop a design and architecture leveraging approved design patterns

Design secure wide area connectivity inclusive of underlay, overlay, and COI transport design that supports performance, quality of service, security, and mission requirements

Provide secure access solutions leveraging wired and wireless technologies, integrating standards, use cases/scenarios, and develop associated implementation and transition plans

Integrate capacity planning and scaling of network and security stack environments into the overall design of solutions

Collect, investigate, and identify network optimization strategies and techniques to meet capacity and performance standards

Identify legacy service paths (i.e. dataflow, firewall rulesets, and ACLs) and develop strategies and designs for the to-be enterprise service capability to meet requirements while balancing security, sustainability, and maintainability

Support development of IP addressing schemes across IPv4 and IPv6 networks

Work with information assurance teams to ensure compliance to DoD standards to assist with providing accreditation artifacts