Principal Network Engineer

Roles & Responsibilities

MITRE's Intelligence Network Services department is seeking talented Network Engineers to join our team and leverage expertise in enterprise networking, network security, automation, and infrastructure architecture to address complex technical challenges for a wide range of sponsor organizations. Candidates will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, validation, and modernization of secure, resilient, and scalable network environments spanning LAN/WAN, data center, and emerging AI infrastructure use cases.

• Network Architecture & Strategy: Define architecture and engineering strategy for network and service management platforms, including target-state designs, technology standards, service frameworks, operational processes, and implementation artifacts.
• Network Implementation & Validation: Configure, deploy, test, and validate enterprise network infrastructure and security services across IPv4/IPv6, LAN/WAN, campus, branch, data center, and cloud environments, including routing, switching, VLANs, VRFs, BGP, OSPF, SDN, SD-WAN, DNS, DHCP, NAT, load balancing, firewalls and ACL policy enforcement, network segmentation, SASE, network orchestration, policy-as-code, and Zero Trust architecture.
• Data Center Network Architecture, Operations & Transformation: Support the network infrastructure of the data center, including planning, design, implementation, day-to-day network operations, capacity management, consolidation, relocation, and migration initiatives.
• Network Monitoring: Design, implement, and enhance network monitoring and observability capabilities to provide visibility into performance, availability, fault conditions, and operational health across enterprise and data center environments.
• Network Modeling & Simulation: Develop and apply network modeling, simulation, emulation, and test methodologies to evaluate proposed architectures, validate design assumptions, analyze traffic patterns, assess resiliency, and predict performance and scalability outcomes.
• ITSM & Service Improvement: Apply IT Service Management (ITSM) principles and platforms, including ServiceNow, to improve service delivery, operational efficiency, incident and problem management, change control, request fulfillment, asset and configuration management, and service performance.
• Cybersecurity Risk Analysis: Conduct cybersecurity risk assessments of proposed architectures, designs, and implementation plans to evaluate security posture, identify threats, vulnerabilities, and control gaps, and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Technical Reporting & Communications: Clearly communicate technical findings, methodologies, and project outcomes through written reports, briefings, and demonstrations for sponsors and internal teams.
• Knowledge Sharing: Actively participate in internal MITRE technical exchange events focused on emerging trends in networking and service management.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, related discipline, or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication, presentation, and writing skills
• The ability to build collaborative and mutually beneficial working relationships with people of different backgrounds.
• Certifications: CCNA, CCNP, CCIE, ITIL
• Knowledge of, or hands-on experience in AI Infrastructure & Data Center Networking
• Software Development & Automation: Experience using languages like C++, Python, and JavaScript; scripting and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, PowerShell, and Bash with development and administration in Linux environments.