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WHAT WE'RE DOING
Join the EADGE-T team and help modernize the program’s technology while delivering new capabilities to the UAE customer. EADGE-T provides an integrated air and missile defense and air battle management capability that connects existing sensors, weapons, and emerging technologies.
The Technical Refresh effort will focus on hardware upgrades and foundational cybersecurity enhancements. This is an opportunity to help design and develop the updated baseline while working directly with an international customer.
THE WORK
The Network Communications Engineer will design, configure, secure, monitor, and troubleshoot complex, high-performance communication networks supporting mission-critical systems.
This role requires strong technical expertise across network architecture, integration, automation, cybersecurity, and performance optimization. You will help ensure the reliability, redundancy, security, and scalability of networks operating across multiple classification domains.
PLEASE NOTE
- This position requires a government security clearance at the Secret level; you must be a U.S. Citizen for consideration.
- This position may require travel to customer sites throughout the UAE.
- This position may occasionally support off-hours test events, including overnight and weekend activities.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
Network Design & Architecture - Support the Lead Network Architect in decomposing system-level requirements and developing functional, logical, and physical architectures for data center network solutions.
Implementation & Integration - Install and configure routers, switches, firewalls, and specialized network infrastructure.
Performance Optimization - Support capacity planning, latency analysis, and bandwidth optimization for high-throughput, low-latency applications. Implement traffic engineering techniques, including MPLS, segment routing, policing, and traffic shaping, to meet performance requirements.
Troubleshooting & Incident Management - Perform root-cause analysis and resolve complex network faults, packet loss, routing loops, and authentication issues. Use tools such as Wireshark, NetFlow, and telemetry platforms to monitor performance and proactively address network issues.
Network Monitoring - Use commercial or open-source network monitoring tools such as OpenText NNMi, Nagios XI, SolarWinds, or OpenNMS.
WHO WE ARE
EADGE-T has a geographically dispersed project team that operates in an Agile Scrum environment.
Team members have the opportunity to work directly with an international customer and gain exposure to the technologies and processes supporting this upgrade.
Designs and plans network communications systems. Provides specifications and detailed schematics for network architecture. Provides specific detailed information for hardware and software selection, implementation techniques and tools for the most efficient solution to meet business needs, including present and future capacity requirements. Conducts testing of network design. Maintains technical expertise in all areas of network and computer hardware and software interconnection and interfacing, such as routers, multiplexers, firewalls, hubs, bridges, gateways, etc. Evaluates and reports on new communications technologies to enhance capabilities of the network.
Basic Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Network Communications, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Telecommunications, or Cyber Security
3+ years of hands on network engineering experience. Certifications: Cisco CCNA/CCNP/CCIE (Routing & Switching or Data Center) or Juniper JNCIA (preferred)/JNCIP/JNCIE, Arista EOS, etc.).- CompTIA Network+, Security+
- Knowledge of TCP/IP, IPv4, VLAN tagging, RSTP, LAG, VTEP, BGP, OSPF, GRE, MPLS, TLS, IPsec, MACsec.
- Proficiency with network hardware (Juniper (preferred), Cisco, Palo Alto, DELL, Arista)
- Strong scripting/automation (Python, PowerShell, Ansible, Terraform).
- Familiarity with network logging tools (ArcSight, Splunk, other Syslog tools)
- Understanding of cybersecurity frameworks, IDS/IPS, VPNs, PKI, stateful/stateless firewall with ALG, and symmetric/asymmetric encryption methods, cryptographic hash functions and familiarity of NSA CSFC capabilities & algorithms
- Excellent analytical and problem solving abilities; ability to work under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
- Proficient in AI prompting as it applies to this position and practice.
- Ability to obtain a US DoD Secret Clearance
Desired Skills
- 3 years of experience in Network Communications as a network device SME
- Experience with Juniper EX, QFX, SRX, and MX products
- Network Management: Juniper Apstra, Mist, Ansible (configuration deployment), Syslog, NTPv4, NETConf, SNMPv2/v3
- Virtual Hypervisor & Micro Services: VMWare VCF (understanding of vSwitch and vSAN, VM interfaces), K8 (understanding of Kubernetes and containers’ network interfaces and ports)
- Experience with high capacity fiber optics MMF and SM i.e. 10/25/40/100 Gbps data rates
Wireshark/PCAP and/or TCPDUMP/LIBPCAP packet analysis - Network Monitoring tools. Must have experience with SNMP v2c/v3
- DISA network device STIGS including Network Policy
Pay Information
Full-Time Salary Range: $85300.00 - $158300.00
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The salary range for this position is as listed on the requisition. Please note that the salary information listed is a general guideline only. Lockheed Martin considers factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience, education/ training, key skills as well as market(work location) and business considerations when extending an offer.
Benefits offered: Medical, Dental, Vision, Flexible work arrangements and schedules (e.g., 4x10), 401(k) match, Paid time off, Holidays, Parental Leave, EAP, Flexible Spending Accounts, Education Assistance, Life Insurance, Short-Term Disability, and Long-Term Disability.
- Annual short-term and/or long-term incentive compensation programs may be offered depending on the position. Payments under these annual programs are not guaranteed and can vary from year to year and are tied to a range of performance metrics.
- For (Washington state applicants only) Non-represented full-time employees: accrue at least 10 hours per month of Paid Time Off (PTO) to be used for incidental absences and other reasons; receive at least 90 hours for holidays. Represented full time employees accrue 6.67 hours of Vacation per month; accrue up to 52 hours of sick leave annually; receive at least 96 hours for holidays. PTO, Vacation, sick leave, and holiday hours are prorated based on start date during the calendar year.
Job ID
996476168825
Security Clearance
SECRET
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