Design and Engineering Site Lead

By Light Professional IT Services LLC is a provider of innovative IT services and communications support to the Department of Defense and Federal Agencies. The Design and Engineering Site Lead is responsible for the design and documentation of a MILDEP Campus Area Network, requiring technical expertise to direct resources and ensure project success.

Responsibilities:

• Develop engineering assessments of different configurations including the review of work products for correctness, adherence to the design concept and to customer standards, and for progress in accordance with schedules
• Coordinate with the Project and/or Program Manager to ensure problem solution and user satisfaction and with the Lead Engineer on network architecture and design decisions
• The Design and Engineering Site Lead makes recommendations, if needed, for approval of major systems installations, prepares milestone status reports and deliveries/presentations on the system concept to colleagues, subordinates, and end user representatives
• The Design and Engineering Site Lead will adhere to U.S. Army engineering processes during the development of all submissions; identify additional processes and documentation formats, as necessary submit site specific reports and drawings to Government for review and approval and adhere to the Government’s established process for reviewing, updating, approving, and disseminating Design and Engineering documents

Requirements:

• BA/BS in a technical discipline with at least 10 years of experience in a similar role
• Cisco CCNA certification
• This position requires technical knowledge, skills and experience and the ability to direct technical resources in the completion of assigned tasks to include but not limited to network design upgrades, development of configurations and cutover plans, staging and pre-configuration, execution of the cutover plans, and documentation and system testing
• The Design and Engineering Site Lead must be experienced and familiar with the design and configuration of Layer 2 and Layer 3 networks including spanning tree, software defined networking, VLANs, Virtual Network Identifiers (VNI)s, VXLANS, VRFs, Hostnames, OEM equipment from CISCO
• Strong communication skills
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members of different abilities, backgrounds, and skillsets
• Proven ability of delivering products on time or ahead of schedule
• Active Secret Clearance or higher
• Must be able to travel up to 50% of the time on deployments for both CONUS and potentially OCONUS locations
• Cisco CCNP and/or CCDP certification
• Passive Optical Networking (PON)
• Familiar with Juniper network equipment and network management
• Cisco Prime
• IT PIE
• US Army network design standards