Network Engineer III

Location: 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 Overview

Supports 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 Responsibilities

• Plan 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 Skills

• Active 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 Qualifications

• NFV, SD-WAN, VMware, VMware Cloud Foundation, NSX, vSAN, and Aria.
• Network automation with Ansible.
• Prior Command and Control, Battle Management, and Communications (C2BMC) experience.