Agile Defense · 17 hours ago
Network Administrator - Principal
Fort Huachuca, AZ
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
4+ years expAgile Defense is committed to bringing adaptive innovation to support the nation's most important missions. They are seeking a Principal Network Administrator to establish, configure, maintain, and support both internal and external networks, while ensuring network security and performance standards are met.
Information ServicesInformation TechnologySoftware
No H1B
Security Clearance RequiredU.S. Citizen Only
Responsibilities
Establishes, configures, maintains, and supports internal and/or external networks for the organization
Develops and maintains all systems, applications, security, and network configurations
Conducts network capacity and performance analysis
Recommends upgrades, patches, and new applications and equipment
Directs and supports activities of the network control function of the organization
Determines service quality levels for network transmission and performance and ensures the established levels are met
Troubleshoots network performance issues and recommends corrective actions
Identifies and resolves problems associated with server hardware/software and ensures scalability and appropriate integration with other systems
Provides technical support and guidance to network users
Optimizes the functionality of networks and systems, and diagnoses and recovers failed systems
Ensures appropriate network security measures are in place
Responsible for backup or recovery procedures
Creates and maintains a disaster recovery plan
May be responsible for directing the work of system administrators who provide the day-to-day system administration to include system and resource optimization, and user assistance
Perform network administration of the information systems that establish the JITC Fort Huachuca, AZ instance of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) Network
Implement, manage, configure, and sustain the network routers, data switches, security appliances, firewalls, intrusion protection/detection systems and COMSEC equipment utilized to the JWICS network premise distribution (VPN) and protected test enclaves to include any associated
Perform system administration of the network systems and applications applied to this enclave with respect to the distinctive guidance established within the JWICS Security Classification Guide (SCG), respective Directives and Issuances from DISA, the Director National Intelligence (DNI) and the Defense intelligence Agency (DIA)
Utilize authorized tools and applications (Solar Winds, Wire-Shark, SNORT, SIEM, BURP, etc.) to monitor network health and performance, conduct trend analysis and provide mitigation strategy recommendations, identify performance degradation, and restore outages identified and provide minimum monthly reports
Monitor SIEM and other system logs to identify potential issues with connected computer systems to conduct network threat analysis
Provide the Tier II and Tier III incident response for issues impacting baseline performance of JITC Network resources and coordinate escalation with DISA Network Operations
Sustain the established baseline network system architecture and perform change management per the established JITC Configuration Management Plan and Change Management process leveraging the designated IT Service Management System
Perform system updates, Access Control Logs (ACL), issue and track IP Space network and host assignment, Domain Name Service change requests, scheduled maintenance, system back-up and restoration procedures of network systems equipment
Perform integration of new technologies into existing network environments in accordance with U.S. DoD U.S. Cyber Command (US CYBERCOM) Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) Program, Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) / Security Requirements Guide (SRG), Bulletins, and Technical Advisory (TA) issuances
Provide response to technical queries and support data-calls from the JITC Command Information Systems Security Manger (ISSM) or designated Information Security Systems Officer (ISSO)
Qualification
Required
Top Secret/SCI clearance level
Sec+ certification
CCNA certification
Master's degree; or a Bachelor's degree with at least 4 years of experience; or an Associate's and at least 6 years of experience. One year of experience can be substituted by 15 semester hours completed towards a Bachelor's or Master's degree
Degree must be in a relevant technical curriculum and experience must be related to the job duties
Establishes, configures, maintains, and supports internal and/or external networks for the organization
Develops and maintains all systems, applications, security, and network configurations
Conducts network capacity and performance analysis
Recommends upgrades, patches, and new applications and equipment
Directs and supports activities of the network control function of the organization
Determines service quality levels for network transmission and performance and ensures the established levels are met
Troubleshoots network performance issues and recommends corrective actions
Identifies and resolves problems associated with server hardware/software and ensures scalability and appropriate integration with other systems
Provides technical support and guidance to network users
Optimizes the functionality of networks and systems, and diagnoses and recovers failed systems
Ensures appropriate network security measures are in place
Responsible for backup or recovery procedures
Creates and maintains a disaster recovery plan
May be responsible for directing the work of system administrators who provide the day-to-day system administration to include system and resource optimization, and user assistance
Implementation, management, configuration and sustaining the respective network routers, data switches, voice switches, and security appliances, firewalls and intrusion protection/detection systems utilized to provision the respective network gateway premise systems
Perform network administration of the information systems that establish the JITC Fort Huachuca, AZ instance of the Joint Worldwide Intelligence Communication System (JWICS) Network
Utilize authorized tools and applications (Solar Winds, Wire-Shark, SNORT, SIEM, BURP, etc.) to monitor network health and performance, conduct trend analysis and provide mitigation strategy recommendations
Monitor SIEM and other system logs to identify potential issues with connected computer systems to conduct network threat analysis
Provide the Tier II and Tier III incident response for issues impacting baseline performance of JITC Network resources and coordinate escalation with DISA Network Operations
Sustain the established baseline network system architecture and perform change management per the established JITC Configuration Management Plan and Change Management process
Perform system updates, Access Control Logs (ACL), issue and track IP Space network and host assignment, Domain Name Service change requests, scheduled maintenance, system back-up and restoration procedures of network systems equipment
Perform integration of new technologies into existing network environments in accordance with U.S. DoD U.S. Cyber Command (US CYBERCOM) Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) Program, Information Assurance Vulnerability Alerts (IAVA), Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) / Security Requirements Guide (SRG), Bulletins, and Technical Advisory (TA) issuances
Preferred
Familiarity and knowledge of Cisco Network switches
Familiarity and knowledge of Solar Winds
Familiarity and knowledge of Wire-Shark
Familiarity and knowledge of SNORT
Familiarity and knowledge of SIEM
Familiarity and knowledge of BURP
Benefits
Competitive and comprehensive benefits package
Company
Agile Defense
Agile Defense is an information technology company located in Reston. It is a sub-organization of Agile-BOT.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2022-11-16Acquired
Leadership Team
Rick Wagner
Chief Executive Officer
B
Bill Luebke
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-18
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