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Senior Boundary Systems Engineer

Description

Join SAIC’s Information Technology (IT) Support Services Team in the Network Operations and Security Center (NOSC) of the US Air Forces Central Command (USAFCENT) Communications Directorate (A6). This opportunity places you at the tip of the spear for Engineering, Operations and Maintenance, Cyber Security, and Defensive Cyber Operations supporting the warfighter in the Southwest Asia area.

 

USAFCENT is the air component of United States Central Command (USCENTCOM), a regional unified command. USAFCENT, in concert with its coalition, joint and interagency partners, delivers decisive air and space power on behalf of USCENTCOM for the security and stability of the Southwest Asia (SWA) region. The USAFCENT NOSC delivers cyberspace command and control (C2) superiority to the warfighter by engineering, implementing, securing, managing, operating and maintaining USAFCENT’s Non-Classified Internet Protocol Router Network (NIPRNet), Secret Internet Protocol Router (SIPRNet), USCENTCOM Partner Networks (CPN-X), and associated C2 networks, systems and services.

 

The USAFCENT NOSC executes the full-spectrum of IT services management and operations for USAFCENT networks 24 hour-a-day, 7 day-a-week (24/7); and is tasked by USCENTCOM to provide information assurance (IA) boundary intrusion detection and intrusion prevention for USCENTCOM components. Comprised of NOSC operations, operations support, cybersecurity, network engineering, and command support functions, the USAFCENT NOSC plans, engineers, installs, integrates, operates and maintains, protects and manages enterprise-wide network and systems architecture, infrastructure and services; and provides enterprise-level oversight to its subordinate and supported communications support activities.

 

Candidates will be working at Shaw AFB, SC and/or Lackland AFB, TX. Frequent temporary duty (TDY) and/or deployment travel to OCONUS locations in the USCENTCOM AOR is required to support sustainment, site surveys, installations, upgrades, integration, testing, troubleshooting and other mission-related requirements.

 

The candidate for this position provides technical solutions to a wide range of difficult problems where analysis of data requires evaluation of identifiable factors, provides imaginative, thorough, and practicable solutions consistent with organization objectives, possesses complete understanding and wide application of technical principles, theories, and concepts in the field, has general knowledge of other related disciplines, and provides direction to employees according to established policies and management guidance.

 

Senior Boundary Systems Engineer:

  • May design, analyze, plan, modify, and maintain networks and network components supporting data, voice and/or audio communication activities. 

  • Prepares the analysis of short/long term capacity needs for switching, routing transmission and signaling. 

  • May conduct network architecture design, feasibility and cost studies as well as internal studies of network performance and traffic analysis. 

  • May evaluate new technology. Duties may include providing specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture; providing information for hardware and software selection; and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements.

  • Conducts testing of network systems.
  • Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, switchers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc.

  • Evaluates and reports on new network technologies to enhance capabilities of the network. 

  • Represents organization in providing solutions to difficult technical issues associated with specific projects.

Specific duties for this position include, but are not limited to:

  • Operate and manage the enterprise boundary management server, ensuring it is functional with duplicate configuration at USAFCENT NOSC COOP location.

  • Analyze firewall reports, firewall logs, and other metrics and identify sub-standard network performance, and engineer and implement solutions to counter the identified anomalies.

  • Operate security devices remotely and locally.
  • Create custom UNIX scripts to meet task specific requirements.

  • Research, document, and track to resolution all outages, trouble calls, and network intrusions.

  • Utilize firewall toolsets to accurately analyze and report on the overall health of local and deployed firewalls. Recommend appropriate changes/resolutions in response to the trends analysis.

  • Perform enterprise level firewall fault isolation and resolution to include troubleshooting ACLs and Proxies affecting other network traffic; and troubleshoot firewall issues on Open BSD Operating System, including permissions and type-enforcement.

  • Configure and maintain DNS and BIND domain name services and manage the full range of the firewall features at an Enterprise level.

  • Provide On-the-job training to local help desk personnel and engineers on firewall components and solutions.

  • Implement proper backup procedures, walk remote users through backup and restoration actions, and accomplish the same locally.

  • Assist engineering new security device implementations.

  • Perform analysis for collaboration of network/system needs and participate in planning, designing, upgrading and deployment of enterprise datacenter hardware and software using a project-based timeline.

  • Manage proxy servers, internal/external email gateways, and external DNS management.

  • Provide guidance and remote administration in the following areas related to Firewall and the Enterprise Manager:

    • General Optimization

    • VPN connections between firewalls (Point to Point)

    • ACL management

    • IP Filter management

    • Log analysis

    • Installation

    • Cloning

    • One-to-many – Failover


Qualifications

Bachelors and five (5) years or more experience; Masters and three (3) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience.  In lieu of a degree, four (4) years of additional experience is required.  In addition the following certifications and skills are required: Security + or CCNA-Sec, MCSA, Firewall, Unix, CCENT, ACAS, HBSS, and ITIL Foundation.





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