Network Lead

About the role

Location: Huntsville, AL Required Clearance: SECRET Required Education: Bachelor's degree in network engineering, information technology, computer science, engineering, or a related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered. Required Experience: Senior network engineering and telecommunications experience supporting enterprise LAN/WAN, voice, data, video, network security, monitoring, and troubleshooting, including technical leadership in secure high-availability environments.

Position Description

PingWind is seeking a Network Lead to provide technical leadership for PAE Fires voice, data, and video networks across classified and unclassified environments. The Network Lead will oversee network design, implementation, monitoring, security, troubleshooting, configuration management, and modernization to ensure secure, interoperable, and highly available mission network services.

Primary Responsibilities

Typical Responsibilities/Tasks: • Lead network management and telecommunications support across the PAE Enterprise Network, PAE Classified Network, associated applications/interfaces/devices, and approximately 20 supported facilities. • Diagnose and resolve interconnectivity issues across interconnected LANs, WANs, communication networks, and standalone systems in classified and unclassified environments. • Design, develop, install, configure, and optimize network infrastructure components including firewalls, IDS/IPS, Active Directory dependencies, switches, routers, hubs, bridges, cabling, fiber optics, and network operating systems. • Develop and maintain network schematics and technical documentation based on customer, security, interoperability, and data-management requirements. • Perform network monitoring, testing, traffic analysis, fault isolation, performance optimization, and administrative functions to sustain secure 24/7 mission network availability. • Support network planning and policy development; evaluate, recommend, and implement hardware/software solutions for bridging, protocol conversion, cross-network data sharing, data protection, and enterprise interoperability. • Analyze and recommend Network Load Balancing approaches for virtual environments and mission applications and support approved implementation activities. • Maintain network security and authorization controls, including connections, accounts, and access privileges; collaborate with cybersecurity staff to identify, resolve, and report vulnerabilities and incidents. • Plan and coordinate Government-approved upgrades with CIO personnel, team leads, and other stakeholders while minimizing mission impact. • Lead network configuration management using Government-provided automated tools, including configuration identification, control, status accounting, audits, policy/configuration management, SOP support, and documentation updates.

Required Qualifications

• Advanced enterprise networking experience with routing, switching, LAN/WAN technologies, TCP/IP, network services, and telecommunications in complex multi-site environments. • Experience designing and administering firewalls, IDS/IPS, network access controls, load balancing, DNS/DHCP/IPAM, and secure wired/wireless networks. • Demonstrated ability to troubleshoot complex interconnectivity, performance, routing, switching, and protocol issues across classified and unclassified environments. • Experience with network monitoring, configuration management, vulnerability remediation, technical documentation, and network change/upgrade planning. • Working knowledge of Cisco enterprise networking and security technologies and comparable network-management platforms. • Knowledge of DoD/Army network security requirements, configuration standards, and secure network operations. • Strong technical leadership, communication, and coordination skills for 24/7 mission-support environments. • SECRET security clearance.