**Overview** Cayuse Native Hawaiian Veterans (CNHV) provides innovative and flexible solutions to federal government clients, emphasizing excellence in the Asia-Pacific region. CNHV's capabilities, market-relevant service offerings, past performance credentials, and diverse status allow government clients to engage quickly and confidently with CNHV. Core service areas for CNHV include Health & Medical Services, Unexploded Ordnance (UXO), Surface & Underwater Range Clearance, Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD), Executive Briefing Teams, Training, Exercise Support, Computer Facilities, and Emergency Management Services. **Responsibilities** + Engineer to support LAN network optimization and standardization at DOS facilities. + Coordinate through DS/CTO to engineer upgrades to WAN links. + Engineer and implement high availability load balancing, and dynamic service health checks to maximize availability of all public-facing websites in the Public DMZs. + In conjunction with other DOS teams, engineer, implement, and monitor denial of service detection. + Lead the support of upgrades required to connect partner agencies to the DS IT network infrastructure. + Design enhancements and upgrades to systems for potential future cloud integration/migration. + Develop, document and maintain standards and procedures manuals, and performance management procedures that meet DS/CTO's requirements. + Perform network component tuning to maintain optimum performance in accordance with change management procedures. + Operates and maintains network environments that support connectivity for DOS information technology systems. + Works with DS and partner organizations to establish and maintain secure WAN/LAN connectivity. + Participate in the implementation and troubleshooting of Firewall Rules for networking devices and application communications and connectivity. + Participate in Configuration Change Boards. + Diagram, document, and maintain configuration management artifacts for Network and Firewall Environments. Installs, configures, troubleshoots, and maintains routers, switches, firewalls, load balancers, and API gateways per established DOS policies and procedures. + Monitors, identifies, and manages network performance issues such as over-utilization, latency, CPU utilization, IDS/IPS, memory allocation, packet loss, and availability. + Performs root cause analysis and documents all existing and potential network/firewall problems and outages associated with corrective actions. + Analyzes network equipment logs to identify trends and problems and maximize network performance through continuous monitoring and troubleshooting. + Participate in planning meetings to execute proactive system upgrades and new technology implementations. Other duties as assigned **Qualifications** + Monitors, identifies, and manages network performance issues such as over-utilization, latency, CPU utilization, IDS/IPS, memory allocation, packet loss, and availability. + Performs root cause analysis and documents all existing and potential network/firewall problems and outages associated with corrective actions. + Analyzes network equipment logs to identify trends and problems and maximize network performance through continuous monitoring and troubleshooting. + Participate in planning meetings to execute proactive system upgrades and new technology implementations. Other duties as assigned. **Other Duties:** _Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive list of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice._ **Affirmative Action/EEO Statement:** _Cayuse embraces diversity and equal opportunity in a serious way. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating and building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Cayuse, and all of its subsidiaries, are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and are an affirmative action employer_ _._ **Pay Range** USD $140,000.00 - USD $170,000.00 /Yr. Submit a Referral (https://careers-cayuseholdings.icims.com/jobs/1710/firewall-engineer/job?mode=apply&apply=yes&in\_iframe=1&hashed=-1834356743) **Location** _US-DC-Washington_ **ID** _102613_ **Category** _Information Technology_ **Position Type** _Full-Time Salary Exempt_ **Remote** _No_ **Clearance Required** _Top Secret_