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Network Engineer with Security Clearance

Thomson Reuters Special Services LLCMcLean, VA🇺🇸United States

Why this role stands out

This hybrid Network Engineer role at Thomson Reuters Special Services offers a fantastic opportunity to leverage your expertise in a critical mission-driven environment, ensuring the security and optimization of complex network infrastructure. If you thrive in a collaborative, agile team and possess strong network engineering skills with a passion for cybersecurity compliance, you'll find rewarding challenges and growth potential here.

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior

Employment typeEmployee

Work modeHybrid

LocationMcLean, VA, United States

ShellAWSNagiosSplunkTCP/IPAgileAnsibleApachePowerShellTerraformVMwareiOS

Job description

Are you passionate about the chance to bring your IT experience to a world-class organization that is leading the way in both content and technology to serve and protect our citizens home and abroad? Do you have the Network Engineering skills necessary to build and maintain virtualized and containerized environments? If you’re a team player with attention to detail and excellent customer service, then Thomson Reuters Special Services (TRSS) is looking for you!

About the RoleAs a Network Engineer, you will work as part of a small, agile team to maintain, secure, and optimize our complex network infrastructure. You will collaborate with IT, DevOps, and security teams to ensure our systems remain reliable, performant, and compliant with industry standards. As a Network Engineer, you will also contribute to a variety of areas including: Maintaining, upgrading, configuring, and securing network equipment and software. Ensuring compliance with security guidelines (SOC2, STIG, NIST, etc.). Troubleshooting connectivity and bandwidth issues.

Documenting network configurations, processes, and changes and participate in cross‑training. Coordinating with the IT team on infrastructure initiatives. Participating in establishing and enforcing security compliance policies. Performing after-hours maintenance and support when required. About You You’re a good fit for the role of Network Engineer if you have/are: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field. Equivalent experience will be considered in lieu of a degree. Minimum 5 years of network engineering experience. Industry certifications preferred.

Strong knowledge of TCP/IP and the OSI model. Experience with AWS networking (Transit Gateway, VPCs, Route53). Familiarity with automation tools (Terraform, Ansible). GitHub experience. Cisco networking platforms (Nexus NX‑OS, Catalyst IOS). Cisco and Palo Alto firewall platforms (Firepower FTD/FMC, PAN‑OS). VMware vSphere networking (distributed switches). Networking for containerized environments. Wireless networking (Wi‑Fi design, security, troubleshooting). High availability networking (LACP). IPsec site‑to‑site VPNs with IKEv2 across different vendors. Remote VPN and SDP solutions (ZTNA).

Network and performance monitoring. Network OS patching, updates, hardening. Linux, Apache, Tomcat administration. Scripting (PowerShell, Linux shell). Understanding of programming concepts to support DevOps teams. System monitoring tools (Nagios, Splunk).