What Success Looks Like
Objective 1: Keep the network dependable at sites where an outage stops mission work
Incidents get resolved without a second escalation to establish who owns the problem.
Recurring failures get traced to a root cause and closed, rather than reset and re-reported a week later.
You can tell a non-technical operator what happened and when it will be fixed, in terms they can act on.
Changes you make hold up under continuous operational load, not just in the maintenance window.
Objective 2: Modernize the network without taking the mission offline
Refresh and redesign work lands inside approved windows and does not run past them.
Designs account for the sites that are hardest to reach and hardest to take down, not only the convenient ones.
Capacity and transport decisions get made before a site outgrows them, rather than after users start complaining.
Rollback paths exist and have been tested before a cutover begins, not drafted during one.
Objective 3: Close the gap between how the network is documented and how it behaves
Someone who was not present for a change can understand what was done and why.
Diagrams and configuration records match what is actually deployed.
Where a standard exists, it is written down. Where one does not, that gap is visible rather than tribal knowledge.
Troubleshooting knowledge ends up somewhere searchable rather than staying in your head.
Where You'd Fit
We are hiring across several levels. You do not need to pick one before applying. Tell us where you think you land and we will talk about it.
Network Specialist. You execute changes and work incidents inside established standards. You know which problems are yours to solve and which need to go up, and you escalate before a small issue becomes an outage.
Network Engineer. You own a segment, a site group, or a system. You make routine design calls yourself and bring the consequential ones to review.
Senior Network Engineer. You take the problems that arrive without a clear answer.
Other engineers check their approach with you before they commit to it, and you are usually the one who figures out why the intermittent fault is not intermittent.
Senior Network Architect. You set the design that others build against, and you are accountable when that design meets an operational reality it did not anticipate.
Lead Network Architect. You own whether the environment holds together as a whole, including the parts you did not design and the decisions you inherited.
What You Bring
- Minimum required experience
- Bachelor’s degree in management information systems, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (e.g. Networking and Telecommunications) with 10+ years of experience performing network engineering or 14+ years of network engineering experience without a bachelor’s degree.
- Minimum of ten (10) years of verifiable network engineering experience supporting a large, complex Federal agency. Strong knowledge of networking protocols, such as TCP/IP, BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, MPLS, VPNs and VLANs.
- Expertise and experience with Cisco technology and Firewall technologies. Ability to perform firewall changes.
- Hands-on experience with SDN technologies such as Cisco ACI or VMware NSX. Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex network issues.
- Delivers high-level technical leadership to meet or exceed establishes project goals.
- Preferred Experience
- Active Industry certifications, such as CCNA, CCNP (routing and switching)
- Nice to have: experience and expertise with Zero Trust (Zscaler) and Palo Alto technologies
- Previous experience CBP highly desired, followed by DHS or DoW
- Advance skills in 3 or more of the following: Cisco SD-WAN
- Cisco Hyperflex
- Cisco StealthWatch
- Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure
- Cisco Firepower
- Willing to be cross trained in the above technologies, You have kept a distributed network running where downtime had consequences beyond user frustration.
- You have modernized live infrastructure under change control, not only built new environments.
- You have worked at remote or austere sites and can describe what you did differently because of it.
- You have operated in mixed-vendor environments and are not dependent on one vendor's tooling.
- You hold an active CBP BI, a fitness determination at another DHS component, or an active DoD clearance. Any of these shortens your start date.
- You can work inside federal change management and accreditation without treating it as an obstacle.
- Certifications such as CCNP, CCIE, or JNCIP are useful but not a substitute for having done the work.
- A note on timing
We are staffing this program now. If you already hold an active CBP BI and EOD, your start date is short and a $10,000 signing bonus comes with the role, payable after 90 days under standard terms. We would like to talk this week.
If you do not, we can begin processing a CBP BI for you. That takes months rather than weeks, so applying now means joining a pipeline rather than starting immediately. We would rather tell you that up front than have you find out after you apply.
Employee Benefits
Agile's benefits offerings include, dependent upon position, Health Insurance, Life Insurance, Paid Time Off, Holiday Pay, short-term and long-term Disability, Retirement and Learning and Development opportunities as well as other optional benefit elections.
Our Core Values
Employees of Agile Defense are our number one priority, and the importance we place on our culture here is fundamental. Our culture is alive and evolving, but it always stays true to its roots. Here, you are valued as a family member, and we believe that we can accomplish great things together. Agile Defense has been highly successful in the past few years due to our employees and the culture we create together.
What makes us Agile? We call it the 6Hs, the values that define our culture and guide everything we do. Together, these values infuse vibrancy, integrity, and a tireless work ethic into advancing the most important national security and critical civilian missions. It's how we show up every day. It's who we are.
Happy
Be Infectious.
Happiness multiplies and creates a positive and connected environment where motivation and satisfaction have an outsized effect on everything we do.
Helpful
Be Supportive.
Being helpful is the foundation of teamwork, resulting in a supportive atmosphere where collaboration flourishes, and collective success is celebrated.
Honest
Be Trustworthy.
Honesty serves as our compass, ensuring transparent communication and ethical conduct, essential to who we are and the complex domains we support.
Humble
Be Grounded.
Success is not achieved alone, humility ensures a culture of mutual respect, encouraging open communication, and a willingness to learn from one another and take on any task.
Hungry
Be Eager.
Our hunger for excellence drives an insatiable appetite for innovation and continuous improvement, propelling us forward in the face of new and unprecedented challenges.
Hustle
Be Driven.
Hustle is reflected in our relentless work ethic, where we are each committed to going above and beyond to advance the mission and achieve success.
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