Network Engineer

Security Clearance: Active Secret clearance required (interim OK)

Travel Requirement: Up to 30%

Citizenship: US Citizenship required

Sherpa 6 is seeking a Network Engineer to provide hands-on network engineering support across the company’s active projects. This role works under the guidance of Principal and Senior Network Engineers and is responsible for assisting with the deployment, operations day-to-day maintenance, and troubleshooting of tactical networks while senior staff are engaged on new design and architecture efforts for other projects.

The Junior Network Engineer executes and sustains network designs and configurations already developed by senior staff, provides routine operational support, and serves as the first point of contact for day-to-day project network needs and escalating design-level or complex issues to Principal or Senior Engineers as needed. This is a development role intended to help build a foundation working with SD-WAN, military network equipment and tactical design concepts with a defined path toward greater design responsibility as skills and experience grow.

Willingness to continue development of skills and knowledge through various company sponsored training and certification programs.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Provide direct network engineering support across multiple projects.

· Create network diagrams, data-flow diagrams, IP address plans, port and protocol matrices, interface-control documents.

· Assist translating network diagrams and requirements into a working solution.

· Configure and troubleshoot routing, switching, VLANs, firewalls, VPNs, SD-WAN, SATCOM, cellular, terrestrial WAN, wireless, and tactical-radio interfaces.

· Assist the integration of technologies from multiple vendors into a seamless network.

· Receive hands-on experience deploying and supporting tactical networks during field demonstrations, exercises, operational assessments, new-equipment fielding, and other events for the customer.

· Troubleshoot basic networking issues in the lab and in the field during exercises.

· Troubleshoot connectivity, DNS, authentication, and performance issues using packet captures, system logs, and standard diagnostic tools.

· Serve as the first point of contact for day-to-day project network issues, escalating design-level or complex problems to Principal or Senior Engineers

· Support multiple concurrent projects, prioritizing tasks based on business and project needs.