Network Solutions Engineer - Enterprise Network SME in Falls Church, Virginia at General Dynamics Information Technology

USA VA Falls Church - 3150 Fairview Park Dr (VAS095)
Full time
RQ219928
Type of Requisition:
Regular

Clearance Level Must Currently Possess:
Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain:
Top Secret/SCI

Public Trust/Other Required:
None

Job Family:
IT Infrastructure and Operations

Job Qualifications:

Skills:
Network Architecture, Network Engineering, Networking Solutions, Network Monitoring, System Security
Certifications:
None
Experience:
20 + years of related experience
US Citizenship Required:
Yes

Job Description:

GDIT is seeking a Network Solutions Engineer (Enterprise Network SME) to design, optimize, and deliver advanced network solutions for mission‑critical Federal environments. In this role, you'll support customer engagements, innovation initiatives, and solution development efforts across the Office of the CTO and GDIT's COVE AIOps Digital Accelerator. If you're energized by shaping modern network architectures and solving complex technical challenges, this role offers high impact and high visibility.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Architect and optimize enterprise‑grade networks across multi‑vendor environments (Cisco, Palo Alto, and more).
• Deliver technical briefings, solution demos, and customer‑facing presentations that translate complex architectures into mission value.
• Create authoritative architecture documents, diagrams, runbooks, and build guides for engineering and customer teams.
• Deploy and validate network solutions across lab and production environments, including copper and fiber physical infrastructure.
• Serve as an SME on proposals (RFIs/RFPs), contributing technical volumes, solution approaches, and cost‑informed recommendations.
• Integrate network monitoring and observability platforms (SolarWinds, PRTG, Elastic, etc.) into hybrid environments.
• Develop firewall policies, segmentation strategies, and perimeter architectures aligned to Federal cybersecurity and Zero Trust frameworks.
• Provide deep troubleshooting expertise including packet analysis, protocol diagnostics, and IPv4/IPv6 network assessment.

What You'll Need to Succeed

Required

• Bachelor's degree or 19+ years of progressive technical and leadership experience.
• 15+ years in enterprise network engineering, design, implementation, and customer‑facing technical leadership.
• Strong communication, analytical, and time‑management skills.
• Ability to design, present, and lead complex network solution initiatives in fast‑paced environments.

• US Citizenship required.

• Canididate must posses active secret, ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI.

Preferred Technical Expertise

• 8 years or more of Expert‑level experience with Cisco routing/switching and Palo Alto firewalls.
• Advanced L2/L3 protocol mastery (OSPF, BGP, STP, VLANs, IPv4/IPv6).
• Experience designing networks across on‑prem, cloud (AWS/Azure), and hybrid architectures.
• Strong packet analysis skills (Wireshark) and ability to resolve multi‑layer issues.
• Hands‑on physical infrastructure experience with copper/fiber cabling.
• Experience integrating monitoring/observability tools into enterprise ecosystems.

Preferred Certifications

• CCIE, CCNP, PCNSE, JNCIE, AWS Advanced Networking Specialty, Network+

Security Requirements

• Active Top Secret / SCI clearance required
• US Citizenship required

Location & Travel

Remote role with approximately 25% travel to customer sites and GDIT headquarters.

The likely salary range for this position is $164,382 - $215,050. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours:
40

Travel Required:
10-25%

Telecommuting Options:
Remote

Work Location:
Any Location / Remote

Additional Work Locations:

Total Rewards at GDIT:
Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. GDIT typically provides new employees with 15 days of paid leave per calendar year to be used for vacations, personal business, and illness and an additional 10 paid holidays per year. Paid leave and paid holidays are prorated based on the employee's date of hire. The GDIT Paid Family Leave program provides a total of up to 160 hours of paid leave in a rolling 12 month period for eligible employees. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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