Job Description

See what you’re missing. Our employees work on the world’s most advanced electronics – from detecting threats for F-35 pilots to illuminating the night for soldiers. Spanning air, land, sea, and space, we are developing the technology of tomorrow, delivered today. Drawing strength from our differences, we’re innovating for the future. And you can, too. Our flexible work environment provides you a chance to change the world without giving up your personal life. We put our customers first – exemplified by our mission: “We Protect Those Who Protect Us®.” Sound like a team you want to be a part of? Come build your career with BAE Systems.

Our Operations employees turn innovative engineering designs into real solutions to meet our customers’ needs. From Supply Chain, to manufacturing and test, Electronic Systems offers opportunities to work with technology rarely accessible in other manufacturing firms. Our training and development programs provide employees with career advancement in a diverse work environment.

Because of the need for consistent, in-person collaboration and/or the requirement to perform all work onsite due to the nature of this particular role, it will be performed full-time on site. This means work will be conducted on location at a BAE Systems facility 100% of the time.

Job responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Monitor, Configure & Troubleshoot Switches, Firewalls, VPN appliances
• Use network diagnostic tools as per product requirements
• Ensure the reliability, availability and performance of network infrastructure & network-related application
• Actively participate in incident response and root-cause analysis, support a blameless post-mortems culture
• Document root-cause analysis and offer solutions to prevent future client network outages
• Commission and decommission infrastructure
• Identify and suggest network designs that will enable consistent client network workflow
• Maintain current customer network documentation that documents outages, changes, and best practices
• Automate repetitive tasks to eliminate toil and drive consistency + repeatability
• Develop tools and services to automate the mitigation and remediation of network-specific events
• Participate in creating customized network management tools to evaluate, monitor and report network statistics
• Design, write and deliver Infrastructure as Code software to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of network

Required Education, Experience, & Skills

• Must have an Active Top Secret Clearance
• Minimum of a High School Diploma and 7 or more years or relevant experience or Bachelor's Degree in related field and 4 or more years of relatable work experience
• Must be able to obtain CompTIA Security + Certification
• Good understanding of TCP/IP model, Open Networking standards, Jun OS, Cisco IOS
• Significant experience with network diagnostic tools such as tcpdump, wireshark
• Experience with Jun OS for switches, firewalls
• Familiar with Pulse Secure VPN
• Understanding of network security (firewalls and IDS) design and implementation
• Understanding of complex networking models utilizing a variety of L2 & L3 protocols
• Knowledge of spanning tree protocol, BGP, LACP, VLAN, MC-LAG
• Basic understanding of scripting & software development packages for development of Infrastructure as Code
• Working knowledge of one or more of the following languages: Ansible, Python,
• Ability to automate menial tasks
• Understanding of diagram drawing tools such as Visio, Lucid Charts, Gliffy
• Able to document cause analysis and offer solutions to prevent future client network outages
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree and 4+ years’ work experience or equivalent work experience.
• Ability to obtain Top Secret Clearance
• Active CompTIA S+ Certification

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