Network Engineer

Overview

The Network Engineer is responsible for end‑to‑end monitoring, observability, network performance management, logging, alerting, synthetic testing, and operational reliability of VA product environments for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Information and Technology (OIT), Product Delivery Services (PDS), Benefits and Memorials (BAM), Memorial and Benefit Services (MBS) deliver secure, reliable, and effective Information Technology (IT) solutions that support the Department’s mission.

Responsibilities

• Establish baselines, maintain dashboards, implement proactive alerting, perform incident triage, support SRE practices, and ensure compliance with service level targets across all cloud and on‑prem environments
• Establish performance, availability, and capacity baselines for all VA product environments.
• Implement real‑time and proactive monitoring dashboards providing visibility into product health and performance.
• Work with VA to instrument significant data paths and business transactions for monitoring and optimization.
• Implement monitoring plugins, agents, and synthetic tests to track system, network, application, and database behaviors.
• Perform trend analysis, periodic reviews, and forecasting of system performance and resource utilization.
• Identify upstream/downstream performance impacts based on changes to functionality or user behavior.
• Provide 24x7x365 monitoring and incident response for VA environments.
• Investigate attempted or successful intrusions, isolate systems, preserve forensic evidence, and provide Incident Reports.

Qualifications

Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or an IT-related degree with 7-10 years' experience
• Expertise in IT monitoring tools, cloud service provider monitoring, logging platforms, and observability frameworks.
• Experience instrumenting systems, networks, applications, and databases for metrics and log collection.
• Strong knowledge of alerting systems, synthetic monitoring, telemetry pipelines, and performance baselines.
• Familiarity with SRE principles (fault tolerance, automated monitoring, resilience engineering).
• Experience with distributed systems, microservices architectures, and cloud-based environments (VAEC).
• Public Trust

Salary Range: $135,000 - $160,000

This position is in the proposal stage. The above salary range represents a general guideline. Integral Federal considers a number of factors when determining base salary offers, such as the scope and responsibilities of the position and the candidate's experience, education, skills, and current market conditions.

Depending on the position, employees may be eligible for overtime, shift differential, and/or discretionary bonuses in addition to base pay.

Company Overview

Integral partners with federal defense, intelligence, and civilian leaders to tackle their most important challenges and deliver positive outcomes. Since our founding in 1998, we have helped clients leverage existing and emerging technologies to transform their enterprises, empower growth, drive innovation, and build sustainable success. The forward-leaning solutions we deliver are tailored to each mission with a focus on keeping our nation safe and secure.

Integral is headquartered in McLean, VA and serves clients throughout the country.

We offer a comprehensive total rewards package including paid parental leave and immediate vesting in our 401(k).

Our package also includes:

Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

Flexible Spending Accounts

Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance

Life Insurance

Paid Time Off & Holidays

Earned Bonuses & Awards

Professional Training Reimbursement

Employee Assistance Program

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veteran/Disability