Job Description
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: Cisco Routing, Communication Network, Enterprise Network, Microsoft SQL Server, Network Engineering Certifications: None Experience: 8 + years of related experience US Citizenship Required: Yes Job Description: GDIT is seeking a Network Solutions Engineer (Enterprise Network Principal) 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 a Principal 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 as