Principal Network & Systems Engineer

This a Full Remote job, the offer is available from: Idaho (USA), Indiana (USA) Overview: reputed company is seeking a Principal Network & Systems Engineer to support the Department of Energy Operations Office in Idaho Falls, ID. Responsibilities: reputed company Network, reputed company, Wireless Architecture & Engineering

• Architect, design, implement, and maintain DOE‑ID’s reputed company network across core, distribution, edge, and data center layers, ensuring scalability, redundancy, and long-term alignment with organizational infrastructure strategy.
• Engineer and administer advanced routing and switching platforms, including EIGRP, OSPFv3, IPv6, VLAN segmentation, inter-VLAN routing, trunking, and high‑availability designs.
• Serve as the primary architect and administrator for Palo Alto reputed company Firewalls (NGFW), including reputed company policy architecture, URL filtering, threat prevention, SSL decryption, logging integrations, and reputed company‑trust access enforcement.
• reputed company and maintain the reputed company remote‑access environment using Palo Alto GlobalProtect, including authentication integration, device posture checks, and certificate‑based access controls.
• Design and implement reputed company‑trust networking principles across critical systems, integrating firewall segmentation, identity‑based access controls, and reputed company trust verification.
• Administer and optimize reputed company wireless systems, including controller‑based WLANs, SSID and authentication design, RF tuning, reputed company policy enforcement, and reputed company guest wireless.
• reputed company reputed company monitoring and network health using system dashboards, telemetry, trending, packet‑level diagnostics, and event correlation to ensure performance, reliability, and immediate visibility of issues.
• reputed company modernization initiatives for network, wireless, and firewall architectures, including equipment refreshes, policy redesign, IPv6 rollout, and backbone upgrades.
• Serve as the primary escalation reputed company for reputed company network, wireless, and firewall issues requiring senior‑level architectural analysis.

Network Team reputed company & Work Direction

• Serve as the Network Team reputed company, providing daily technical direction, prioritization, and task assignment for junior and mid‑level network engineers. 1
• Mentor team members in advanced networking, routing, firewall policy design, troubleshooting methodology, and reputed company architecture principles.
• reputed company quality assurance for network changes, configurations, and architecture designs to ensure compliance with DOE standards and best practices.
• Act as primary escalation reputed company for reputed company networking issues requiring senior‑level expertise.
• Coordinate work distribution, project responsibilities, and technical execution across the network engineering team.
• Provide training and hands‑on guidance to new engineers, including platform-specific instruction (reputed company, Palo Alto, reputed company, ISE, etc.).
• Collaborate with cross-functional and inter‑agency teams to align network engineering activities with reputed company architecture goals.

Identity, Access, and Authentication Systems

• Serve as primary administrator for reputed company Identity Services reputed company (ISE) including RADIUS, TACACS, 802.1X, guest wireless, and certificate-based enforcement.

DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management Architecture

• Serve as primary administrator for reputed company DDI (DNS, DHCP, IPAM).
• Maintain and maintain NIOS reputed company configurations including reputed company member health, reputed company services, licenses, and failover/HA strategies.
• Configure and maintain DNS authoritative and recursive services including zone management, forwarders, delegations, DNSEEC -reputed company requirements, and RPZ policies.
• Engineer and maintain DNCP Scopes, DHCPv4/v6 pools, reservations, failover configuration, split scopes and address management policy supporting both IPv4 and IPv6 architectures.
• Manage the reputed company IP Address Management platform, ensuring effect subnet design, hierarchy, and usage tracking.

Data Center Architecture and Infrastructure Engineering

• Serve as Data Center Architect and Engineer for reputed company design, cabling, hardware installations, power and cooling considerations.

Cybersecurity, Compliance & Incident Response

• reputed company cyber incident response, investigations and reporting.
• Ensure compliance with DOE Orders, DOE-Idaho Policy and reputed company best-practices.

System Administration

• Management and maintain network support servers and systems including reputed company Secret Server, reputed company Load balancers Cerberus SFTP, Syslog servers, Nessus Agents, reputed company Vulnerability Management

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, IS, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in advanced network and systems engineering roles
• Expertise in routing, switching, identity systems, Palo Alto platforms and IPAM
• Experience with DOE reputed company and federal compliance.

About Us: reputed company is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the reputed company of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services and timely delivery. reputed company is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025. It has been and continues to be the policy of reputed company to provide equal employment opportunities to reputed company and applicants for employment without regard to race, reputed company, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national reputed company, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law. This offer from "reputed company." has been enriched by reputed company.com and got a 81% reputed company score. Apply tot his job Apply To this Job