Network Engineer (COSMOS, JSC)

About the role

Amentum is hiring an early to mid-level Network Engineer for the Contract for Organizing Spaceflight Mission Operations and Systems (COSMOS), NASA's next-generation mission operations contract located on-site at Johnson Space Center. COSMOS provides mission control services, advanced training systems and full-scale spacecraft mockups for astronaut preparation and engineering analysis.

Key responsibilities

• Implement approved network and system designs aligned with project objectives and stakeholder requirements.
• Support project schedule development and give regular status updates to contract management and project engineering teams.
• Coordinate implementation with integration teams, maintenance personnel and other stakeholders, and consult on network modification and upgrade requests.
• Support the design and maintenance of managed network hardware.
• Generate and update configuration management documents such as cabinet/console drawings, floor plans, cable running lists, cross-connect wire lists, maintenance instructions and subsystem tests.

Required profile

• Bachelor's or Master's degree and at least 3 years of general experience.
• Ability to obtain a NASA Personal Identity Verification (PIV) badge.
• Strong initiative, teamwork, problem-solving and clear communication across engineering, integration, maintenance, security, cloud and infrastructure teams.

Required skills

• Routing and switching (BGP, OSPF, EIGRP, STP, VLANs, trunking).
• Cisco and Aruba hardware, Palo Alto, Fortinet and Cisco ASA/Firepower firewalls.
• VPN (IPSec, SSL VPN, site-to-site tunnels) and network security (ACLs, IDS/IPS, segmentation).
• Cisco ISE and troubleshooting with Wireshark, packet captures and CLI diagnostics.
• Change management, documentation standards and ITIL processes.
• Preferred: Python/Ansible, cloud networking (AWS VPC, Azure VNets), VXLAN/VMware NSX, SolarWinds/Splunk, CCNP or CompTIA Network+/Security+.

What we offer

• Salary starting at $92k, with a stated range of $90k-$120k depending on experience, education and certifications.
• Health, dental and vision insurance, paid time off and holidays.
• Retirement benefits including 401(k) matching, parental leave and employee stock purchase plan.
• Educational reimbursement, tax-saving options, disability and life insurance, and pet insurance.