Senior Network/Communications Engineer

Senior Network/Communications Engineer

Place of Performance: Atlantic City, NJ (onsite required — no flexibility)

Role Summary: Designs, configures, and maintains the enterprise network infrastructure supporting real-time radar and surveillance data distribution to DoD, DHS, and LE stakeholders, with deep expertise in high-availability architectures, wide-area network operations, and disaster recovery for mission-critical NAS systems.

Critical Job Functions:

• Design, configure, and maintain enterprise network infrastructure including routers, switches, firewalls, and load balancers supporting surveillance data distribution
• Implement HA and failover capabilities including redundant paths, dual-homing, HSRP/VRRP, and distributed load balancing to support 99.999% availability target
• Develop and maintain network disaster recovery strategies including alternate routing, cloud failover, and recovery site connectivity; ensure low-latency failover across distributed and hybrid/cloud environments
• Provide engineering support for radar distribution over wide-area networks — ensuring real-time delivery, synchronization, and redundancy of radar data to DoD, DHS, and LE stakeholders across operational sites
• Develop network testing plans for simulated outages; conduct periodic DR drills and failover testing to validate disaster recovery and failover readiness
• Maintain technical documentation for recovery workflows including network diagrams with failover and recovery paths; deliver network disaster recovery strategies and enterprise network infrastructure documentation when directed by COR
• Define, manage, and track network configuration items (topology diagrams, configurations) within client’s infrastructure in coordination with the CM team; ensure all changes are planned, tracked, validated, and reversible per the client Change Management Policy
• Perform patch management and preventive/corrective maintenance for network devices; perform security maintenance tasks including vulnerability remediation and CIS compliance verification (Tasks 7)
• Provide Tier 2/3 on-call network support per the Help Desk schedule (Mon–Fri 6:00–11:00 pm ET on-call; Sat–Sun 8:00 am–5:00 pm ET on-call) as directed
• Participate in weekly cross-over meetings with the Program Office; provide weekly status report updates, engineering artifacts, and quarterly progress reports
• Conduct requirements analysis, gap analysis, and system trade-off studies to support network architecture decisions; provide recommendations for technology modernization and risk mitigation