This position requires office presence a minimum of 5 days per week and is only located in the location(s) posted. No relocation is offered.
AT&T Global Public Sector is a trusted provider of secure, IP enabled, cloud-based, network solutions and professional services to the Federal Government. We are dedicated to recruiting, developing and empowering a diverse, high-performing workforce that is passionate about what they do, committed to our shared values and dedicated to our customers’ mission.
Our National Security Team supports the intelligence community, providing, operating, and assuring critical voice, video and collaboration services for the full spectrum of operations.
AT&T has an opening for a Network Implementation Engineer Automation Specialist to support the Intelligence Sector. This position is responsible for the delivery and implementation of customer network requirements within the constraints of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) and the contract. These customer requirements cover all segments of the customer enterprise infrastructure to include CAN/LAN, wide area networks, and cybersecurity related infrastructure.
Description of Job Duties/Responsibilities:
· Ensuring internal standards and procedures are followed.
· Ability to operate in a demanding and fast-paced environment.
· Interpret customer requirements and apply standard network design approaches for service delivery into the operational baseline.
· Fully document network designs with diagrams, bill of materials, cabling sheets, configurations, and other supporting documents.
· Provide technical expertise to network engineers and technicians.
· Solve tough problems with innovative and scalable solutions.
· Support and leverage standardized policies and implementation of automation
· Develop secure network designs including configurations that align with Defense Information Security Agency (DISA) Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs) and enterprise policies.
Required Clearance: TS/SCI with polygraph. (#ts/sci) (#polygraph)
Required Qualifications:
Candidate must have 10 years of experience that can be a combination of work history and education. This equates to a Doctorate and 3 years, master’s and 4 years, bachelor’s and 6 years, associates and 8 years or HS diploma and 10 years. Required qualifications include the following:
· Must be compliant with DoD 8140 Information Assurance Technical (IAT) Level 2.
· Experience specifically in network engineering to include network design and implementation.
· Prior responsibility for production network hardware and software configurations for Cisco, and/or Juniper infrastructure.
· Network engineering and design experience with MPLS WANs and/or similar WAN protocols, network management tools, and firewalls.
· Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard routing protocols in a production network, such as Open Shortest Path First (OSPF) or Border Gateway Protocol (BGP)
· Hands-on experience implementing and troubleshooting standard switching and trunking protocols in a production network, such as Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs), 802.1q, and port-channels.
· Proficient in working with cryptographic devices such as KG-175s and KG-142s.
· Skilled in Automation: Ansible, Terraform, or Python
· Proficient in coding: Python
· Automate Lifecycles: Design, build, and maintain automated deployment workflows for multi-vendor data center, campus, and cloud networks.
Desired Qualifications:
· Experience should include application of industry standards, developing configurations, and integration of solutions into production environments.
· Initiative and disciplined to work unsupervised as part of a network engineering team.
· Expert in network and software automation
· Experience establishing process, developing documents, and organizing repositories.
· Source of Truth Integration: Build and maintain network source-of-truth integrations (e.g., NetBox IPAM/DCIM) to drive accurate automated configurations and eliminate drift.
· CI/CD Pipelines: Create and manage CI/CD pipelines for network changes, unit/integration testing, dry-runs, and automated deployment gates.
· Drift Detection & Remediation: Implement automated state validation, pre-flight checks (reachability, routing…
