Network Engineer III

Network Engineer IIILocation: Colorado Springs, CO Work Arrangement: 100% On-site. Long-term base at a Lockheed Martin facility in Colorado Springs. Occasional travel to Schriever SFB, Alaska, Guam, Europe, and other deployment locations. Schedule: Four 10's, Monday-Thursday; Friday-Sunday off; onsite only Interview: On-site Contract: Direct hire permanent role Visas Accepted: U.S. citizenship required. Candidate must be authorized to work in the United States without visa sponsorship.Role OverviewSupports the Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) program as a Network Development Engineer responsible for network buildouts, upgrades, deployments, integration, testing, and operational support.Primary ResponsibilitiesPlan work within an Agile Scrum team based on customer and contractual requirements.Plan, deploy, integrate, and test Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) network upgrades at operational sites.Travel to remote locations to lead and perform network installations.Independently troubleshoot network issues.Provide status updates to program personnel.Required Technical SkillsActive Top Secret clearance required at start. Clearance must be verifiable in DISS.Hands-on network design, development, and testing experience.OSI model, TCP/IP, BGP, and OSPF.Traffic analysis, diagnostics, and troubleshooting.Firewalls, especially Juniper, Fortinet, and Palo Alto.UDP multicast, SONET, MSPP, VLANs, GRE tunnels, and TCP/IP network designs.Multi-vendor switching/routing with Juniper and Cisco, WAN optimizers, TACLANEs, and optical transport equipment.Microsoft Office, especially PowerPoint and Visio.DOD STIG compliance and system accreditation implementation.Preferred QualificationsNFV, SD-WAN, VMware, VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, vSAN, and Aria.Network automation with Ansible.Prior Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) experience.