Network Engineer - Full Scope Poly

Description
Bring your IT career and talents to CDW, where you can have a greater impact, be inspired by our mission and excited about your career and future. A Fortune 200 leader, we're the driven professionals and technology experts companies turn to most to solve their IT challenges.
Description
The Network Engineer - Full Scope Poly performs engineering services to enable all aspects of network management from network design through implementation, maintenance, sustainment of existing networks, and identification/correction of complex internetwork issues. Implements and sustains Wide Area Networks (WANs), wired and wireless Campus Area Networks (CANs), Data Center Networks/Interfaces (DCN/DCI), Network Security (NETSEC), and Tactical/Deployable Networking Systems. Analyzes design, specifications, and related documents. Implements communication system requirements to support the distributed functionality of a networked enterprise environment. Analyzes network characteristics (e.g., traffic connect time, transmission speeds, packet sizes, and throughput), troubleshoots problems, and recommends modification of network configurations.

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• Facilitate the implementation of high-speed, scalable, fault-tolerant network topologies as applicable to WAN and LAN design
• Minimize network latency and maximize data throughput
• Validate new and existing dataflow and data formats
• Lead large efforts of dynamic requirements and scale
• Work with System engineers, customers, and cross organizational teams to refine requirements
• Coordinate with appropriate dataflow organizations and end-customer recipients, follow-on data repositories and tasking organizations, and understand potential adverse impacts on system-wide dataflow
• Perform security testing and design evaluations
• Employ government standards to configure the interconnects between data centers, networks, and security boundaries
• Draft technical requirements, configuration management, and planning documentation
• Design, integrate, configure, deploy, test, and maintain numerous types of network devices, interfaces, and technologies to include VPN, VRF, VSS, BGP and OSPF routing or other routing protocols as required, and VLAN
• Optimize end-to-end system performance (e.g., capacity, margins, data quality, etc.) and dataflow management
• Configure and optimize the network to connect various front-end and back-end components

Qualifications - Internal
Qualifications:

• Active DoD TS/SCI security clearance required. CI polygraph is preferred, active Full Scope polygraph is best.
• Twelve (12) years of experience in programs and contracts of similar scope, type, and complexity are required.
• Bachelor's degree in engineering from an accredited college or university is required.
• Four (4) years of additional network engineering experience may be substituted for a Bachelor's degree.
• Certifications: An IAT l Level II baseline certification as defined by DoD 8570.01-M is required. IAT III within 12 months. CCIE, or equivalent, certification or higher required.

Who we are:
CDW is a leading technology solutions provider to business, government, education and healthcare organizations across the globe. Our fingerprints can be found on technology in workplaces of more than 250,000 companies; from fresh-faced start-ups to international conglomerates. With the breadth of products and services we offer, there is no request too big or too small.
What you can expect from us: Culture, coworkers, careers.
CDW is not only the People Who Get IT but the People who get People. Our relationships are fueled by our deep expertise and grounded in the CDW Way. Our empowering leadership makes things happen and inspires their teams to do the same. From the teammates beside us to the leaders who guide us, we move forward together. At CDW, you'll work with people who inspire you. People with positive, success-driven attitudes who you will learn from and forge strong relationships with. Bring your best true self-and your best ideas-to CDW. Because diverse perspectives bring forth better problem solving-and better solutions for our customers on a rapidly evolving technology landscape.

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status
Benefits overview: https://cdw.benefit-info.com/