Network System Engineer

Title: Network System Engineer Location: Scottsdale, AZ - Secret clearance required

M9 Solutions is seeking a Network System Engineer to work on-site in support of a government contract for a client located in Scottsdale, AZ. An active Secret clearance is required.

Responsibilities

• Analyzes network requirements, then designs, documents, implements, and verifies data communications networks supporting satellite ground systems.
• Develops network plans and designs, installs components, and configures services to meet program requirements.
• Analyzes network topologies, traffic, and capacity needs for monitoring, maintenance, and troubleshooting during deployment events.
• Supports network operations, maintenance, and troubleshooting between deployments across networks of different classification levels, including security configurations, diagnostics, corrective actions, and clear change documentation.
• Installs devices in equipment racks and user workspaces.
• Works mainly in an office setting, with some work in a raised-floor computing environment.

Required Skills and Qualifications

• Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree in Engineering or a related Science or Mathematics field with 5+ years of relevant experience, or a Master's degree with 3+ years.
• U.S. citizenship is required for this role.
• Able to travel up to 50%, including surges during site equipment deployments. A U.S. passport is required, as some travel may be outside the U.S.

Preferred Skills and Qualifications

• Enterprise network design and topology.
• High-speed network design and implementation.
• Juniper JNCIA-Junos (JNCIP preferred) or Cisco CCNA (CCNP preferred).
• Hands-on experience with Juniper SRX-series firewalls.
• Maintaining environments with Linux IDM and Windows Servers (DNS, account management), Juniper firewalls, Arista switches, and NAS/SAN storage.
• Multicast and routing protocols such as BGP and OSPF.
• Vulnerability scanning, system hardening, and remediation.
• Strong technical writing for network, system, and operations documentation.
• Public cloud networking and services, including AWS.
• VMware vSphere and virtual machines.
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
• 6 years integrating and configuring switches, routers, firewalls, and gateways in IPv4 (TCP/UDP) data communications systems.
• Within the past 5 years, proven experience in at least two of the following: 1 year as a systems manager or operator in Microsoft or Linux environments (Windows Server 2012 or newer, Windows 7 or newer clients, Linux); 1 year of LAN administration, operation, and architecture with 30+ client systems; managing mixed Windows and Linux environments; virtualization of hardware platforms, operating systems, storage, or network resources.
• Collaborative team player and clear communicator who enjoys technical leadership, continuous learning, and improving how the work gets done.