DRS Technologies

DRS Technologies, A Finmeccanica Company, provides leading edge products and services to government and commercial customers worldwide. Focused on defense electronics, we develop and manufacture a broad range of mission critical systems and components in the areas of communications, combat systems, battlefield digitization, electro-optics, power systems, data storage, digital imaging, flight safety and space. Headquartered in Parsippany, NJ, the company is a wholly owned subsidiary of Finmeccanica S.p.A. which employs more than 70,000 people worldwide. We offer a competitive compensation package and a business culture which rewards performance. For additional information on DRS, please visit our website at www.drs.com

Position Summary

DRS TSI is seeking a Senior Wide Area Network (WAN) Engineer to support classified and unclassified military networks throughout Iraq. The position will be located at Camp Victory – Baghdad, Iraq. The Senior WAN Engineer duties will primarily consist of day-to-day operations, maintenance, monitoring, upgrades, troubleshooting, and repair of theater classified and unclassified tactical and strategic WANs.

 Duties and Responsibilities

•  Work with teams of routing and switching experts maintaining and repairing all WAN layer 3 routing devices, and provide technical support for junior grade WAN technicians
• Provide WAN routing and switching subject matter expert support for  management and other engineers
• Develop and implement solutions for integration, change, and improvement to the Iraq theater WAN as required
• Perform troubleshooting of Cisco devices, related circuits, Cisco-based VPN, and network encryption devices
• Perform troubleshooting of KG-175 TACLANE, and related network encryption devices
• Work with other organizations to resolve problems with physical layer satellite, copper and fiber optic transmissions circuits
• Coordinate with other military units and contractors to repair and make improvements to both the physical and logical WAN infrastructure.
• Document network configurations, maintain diagrams, following all requisite network security, configuration and change management guidelines.
• Monitoring of the NIPR and SIPR networks using proscribed LAN/MAN/WAN monitoring tools
• Provide input for network performance and availability reports
• Travel throughout theater as necessary to accomplish assigned duties
• Maintain Iraq theater IP address space
• Other duties as assigned

Person must have knowledge in routing, configuration, troubleshooting and support of mid to large sized network environments.  Experience working with BGP, EIGRP, OSPF is a must.

The candidate must be flexible and creative in adapting to environments where functional and operational objectives evolve and change rapidly. This is a very fast-paced environment.

The candidate will work under the immediate supervision of a military shift leader or other contract personnel designated by the PM. The candidate will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Basic Qualifications

• Four-year technical degree or equivalent experience
• Routing Protocol knowledge to include OSPF, EIGRP, BGP, and ISIS 
• CCIE Certification Required
• Advanced technical troubleshooting and engineering experience
• Demonstrated self-starter and demonstrated ability to independently resolve problems, and as part of a team
• Demonstrated technical proficiency with Microsoft, and other troubleshooting tools such as PING, NETSTAT, NBTSTAT, TRACEROUTE, IPCONFIG and ARP.
• Ability to perform effectively in a fast paced environment with short timelines and set deadlines
• Ability to maintain a professional and courteous manner in difficult situations
• Ability to maintain high quality work to manage multiple critical projects
• Ability to perform and participate in a team oriented environment
• Ability to communicate effectively with a diverse group of network users
• Contributes to overall effectiveness as a team member
• Excellent customer service skills and demeanor
• Meet overseas medical deployment qualifications

 Additional Desirable Skills and Knowledge

 ·         SATCOM, E1, LOS, Tropo-Scatter, PIX/ASA Firewalls, Cisco IDS, GRE, ACLs, MPLS, VoIP, SNMP

• Working knowledge and experience with Remedy, Cisco ACS, HP OpenView, Cisco Works, Solar Winds network monitoring suite (including Solar Winds engineer's edition)
• Understanding of the function and policy of SIPR and NIPR networks
• Clearance: Interim Secret or higher required

DRS Technologies, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. We consider applicants without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, marital or veteran status, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to recruiting and retaining the best talent in the defense and commercial technology areas.