Network Implementation Engineer

About the role

Booz Allen is looking for a Network Implementation Engineer in Fort Meade who maintains responsibility for site surveys, structured designs and engineered drawings for customer networks supporting voice, data, security and audio-visual systems. The engineer works with IT and facilities teams, project teams, clients, architects, engineers, subcontractors and vendors to develop system designs, estimates, implementation plans and reports, and implements final network solutions for on-premises and cloud environments.

Key responsibilities

• Complete site surveys and create structured designs for customer networks
• Design engineered drawings, specifications, reports and other technical documents
• Analyze business and technical requirements and coordinate structured cabling with other design disciplines
• Develop and execute test and implementation plans
• Implement final network solutions for on-premises and cloud environments
• Manage network device production and network architecture design, and prepare supporting documentation

Required profile

• 5+ years of implementation and engineering support for DoD enterprise networks
• 3+ years with commercial hardware, networks and cloud environments
• 2+ years of network discovery, including documenting system requirements
• HS diploma or GED
• Secret clearance; applicants undergo a security investigation and may need eligibility for classified information
• Ability to travel up to 40% of the time to CONUS and OCONUS locations

Required skills

• Security, routing and switching protocols such as BGP, IS-IS, OSPF, MPLS, LDP, RSVP, VPLS, STP or L3VPNs
• Test and implementation planning
• Nice to have: Cisco, HP, Aruba, Palo Alto, Arista and Juniper solutions; AWS, Azure and network-layer cloud deployment; structured cabling standards; bachelor's degree

What we offer

• Projected annual salary of $61,900 to $141,000 depending on experience, education and contract terms
• Health, life, disability, financial and retirement benefits, paid leave and tuition assistance for full-time and part-time employees working at least 20 hours per week