Senior Network Engineer

Peraton is seeking a Senior Network Engineer to design, implement, and optimize advanced network communications systems in support of mission-critical operations. In this role, you will leverage your expertise to ensure secure, reliable, and scalable network performance that meets both current and future business needs.

Responsibilities

• Design & Planning: Develop and document network architecture, including detailed specifications, schematics, and capacity planning to ensure long-term scalability.
• Analysis & Evaluation: Conduct cost/benefit analyses to recommend the most effective hardware, software, and tools for implementation. Evaluate emerging technologies to enhance network performance and capabilities.
• Implementation & Testing: Oversee network design testing, installation, configuration, and performance tuning. Ensure proper configuration of routers, firewalls, multiplexers, hubs, bridges, gateways, and related components.
• Monitoring & Maintenance: Monitor and maintain network hardware operations to ensure optimal performance and reliability. Plan and execute system upgrades and enhancements.
• Advisory Support: Provide expert guidance to network users on system requirements, configurations, and limitations. Serve as a trusted advisor on network capabilities and constraints.

Technical Expertise: Maintain advanced knowledge of interconnection and interfacing of network and computer hardware/software to support seamless integration across platforms.

Required Qualifications

• Clearance: Active TS/SCI with relevant polygraph (required).
• Education & Experience:
• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant technical field and 12 years of related experience, or
• Master’s degree (MS/MA) with a minimum of 10 years of related experience, or
• Doctoral degree (PhD) with a minimum of 7 years of related experience, or
• An additional 4 years of relevant technical experience may be substituted in lieu of a degree.
• Technical Expertise: Demonstrated and current proficiency in the design, configuration, and integration of network and computer hardware/software, including routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, and related systems.
• Innovation & Evaluation: Proven ability to evaluate and report on emerging communications technologies to enhance network capabilities.

Peraton is a next-generation national security company that drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world’s leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted, highly differentiated solutions and technologies to protect our nation and allies. Peraton operates at the critical nexus between traditional and nontraditional threats across all domains: land, sea, space, air, and cyberspace. The company serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies and supports every branch of the U.S. armed forces. Each day, our employees do the can’t be done by solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers. Visit peraton.com to learn how we’re keeping people around the world safe and secure.