
Design Engineer, ND III – Government
AT&T
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Office
Location: Chantilly • Virginia • United States
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Salary
💰 $98,100 - $203,000 per year
Tech Stack
About the role
- Interpret customer requirements and apply standard design approaches for service delivery.
- Fully document designs with diagrams, bill of materials, cabling sheets, configurations, and other supporting documents.
- Use our private test lab to evaluate new technologies and capabilities, test proposed changes to production networks, and recreate troubleshooting scenarios.
- Schedule maintenance windows for migrating user connections from legacy to the modern infrastructure transition services.
- Provide technical expertise to Operations engineers and technicians.
- Solve tough problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
- Develop secure network designs including configurations that align with Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and enterprise policies.
- Obtain Authority to Operate (ATO) for new devices, software, and capabilities.
Requirements
- Candidate must have 16 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education.
- Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
- Experience specific to network engineering to include Tier III or higher network operations and/or network design and implementation.
- Prior responsibility for production network hardware configurations for Cisco, Brocade, and/or Juniper.
- Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard routing protocols in a production network, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP).
- Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard switching and trunking protocols in a production network, such as Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), 802.1q, and port-channels.
Benefits
- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Paid Time Off and Holidays (at least 23 days of vacation each year)
- Paid Parental Leave
- Paid Caregiver Leave
- Additional sick leave beyond what state and local law require may be available
- Adoption Reimbursement
- Disability Benefits (short term and long term)
- Life and Accidental Death Insurance
- Supplemental benefit programs: critical illness/accident hospital indemnity/group legal
- Employee Assistance Programs (EAP)
- Extensive employee wellness programs
- Employee discounts up to 50% off on eligible AT&T mobility plans and accessories, AT&T internet (and fiber where available) and AT&T phone
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
network engineeringnetwork designnetwork implementationrouting protocolsOpen Shortest Path First (OSPF)Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)switching protocolsVirtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)802.1qport-channels
Soft Skills
problem solvingtechnical expertisecommunication
Certifications
DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2Authority to Operate (ATO)