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Principal Engineer Network - Lab Network Engineer

Northrop Grumman

$91,200 - $136,800
Aug 26, 2025
Colorado Springs, CO, USA
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The Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program is the central element of the Missile Defense System. It is a critical operational system that allows the U.S. president, secretary of defense, and combatant commanders at strategic, regional, and operational levels to systematically plan ballistic missile defense operations, monitor the development of the battle collectively, and dynamically manage designated networked sensors and weapons systems to accomplish global and regional mission goals.

Requirements

  • Must be familiar with the following: TCP/IP Model, OSI Model, Multicast, Firewalls, Routing Protocols BGP and OSPF
  • Specific experience with Juniper and/or Cisco networking equipment required
  • Experience in UDP multicast, VLANs, GRE Tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs
  • Understanding of standard DOD security practices, such as STIG compliance and system accreditation implementation efforts
  • Industry vendor certification from: Juniper (JNCIA, JNCIS, JNCIP, JNCIE) is a must, and from Cisco (CCNA, CCNP) is a plus
  • Knowledge, skill sets, or experience using protocol analyzers or sniffers (such as Wireshark) is highly desired
  • Knowledge of automated testing frameworks, Python, Ansible, Chef, or Puppet

Responsibilities

  • Must be a proven network engineer with hands-on mid-level experience and knowledge of network design, development, and testing methodologies
  • Experience with capturing and deciphering packets (50% of testing efforts involve packet capture and analysis), Network Address Translation (NAT), Network Timing, and the ability to read technical network diagrams
  • Proven and demonstrated network traffic analysis, diagnostic, and troubleshooting experience
  • Experience working with Firewalls and IPS/IDS
  • Must be familiar with the following: TCP/IP Model, OSI Model, Multicast, Firewalls, Routing Protocols BGP and OSPF
  • Specific experience with Juniper and/or Cisco networking equipment required
  • Experience in UDP multicast, VLANs, GRE Tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs

Other

  • Must have previous experience with presentation skills using Microsoft PowerPoint and Visio drawing tools
  • Must have experience working collaboratively in a team environment with other highly motivated network engineers, as well as independently on large field projects
  • A self-motivated individual who possesses strong verbal/written communication skills
  • Applicants must have a current, active in-scope DoD-issued Secret security clearance at the time of application, which is required to start
  • A DoD 8140 certification at IAT Level II or higher (such as Security+, GSEC, SCNP, SSCP, CISSP, CISA, GSE, SCNA, etc.) is required to start