Senior Network Engineer SME

Overview

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Job Title: Senior Network Engineer SME

Job Category: Information Technology

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: Secret

Employee Type: Regular-Long Term Assignment

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

The Opportunity:

We are seeking a Network Engineer Journeyman to join our O&M/Engineering team supporting AFRICOM in Stuttgart, Germany and Del Din, Italy. In this role, you will provide operational network support and engineering for global WAN and LAN environments serving U.S. Africa Command. Your primary focus will be ensuring high availability, exceptional performance, and a secure, mission-ready network infrastructure. The ideal candidate is an innovative and collaborative professional who combines strong traditional network engineering skills with modern automation and DevOps practices to advance AFRICOM operations.

Responsibilities

·       Deploy, configure, and maintain secure DoD enterprise and datacenter network infrastructure, ensuring high availability and mission readiness across geographically dispersed sites.

·       Design, implement, and maintain highly reliable and scalable network systems.

Configure and maintain complex enterprise routing and switching environments utilizing standard protocols and advanced transport methods (DMVPN, MPLS Segment-Routing).

·       Manage and troubleshoot datacenter network fabrics using Cisco ACI (Application Centric Infrastructure) and Cisco Nexus switching platforms.

·       Deploy, manage, and update Palo Alto and Cisco Firepower firewalls, including centralized management platforms (Panorama, FMC).

·       Administer Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) for secure endpoint access, policy enforcement, and Zero Trust architecture support.

·       Provision, key, and maintain KG encryptors (e.g., TACLANE) to secure classified and mission-critical traffic.

·       Develop automation frameworks and leverage network automation tools (Ansible, Python, REST APIs) to streamline deployments and support Software-Defined Access (SDA).

·       Maintain core network services including F5 load balancers and Infoblox for DNS, DHCP, and IPAM.

·       Proactively identify and resolve performance bottlenecks and single points of failure.

·       Create a roadmap for maturing DevOps practices and drive adoption of Infrastructure as Code (Ansible).

·       Gather and analyze metrics for performance tuning, fault discovery, and after-action reporting.

·       Work with operations teams to build automation use-cases and improve reliability through rigorous testing and release procedures.