Network Engineer

Overview

As a Network Engineer supporting AFRICOM in Stuttgart, you will design and operate secure, highly available DoD networks while advancing automation and orchestration capabilities. You collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure mission readiness and performance across geographically dispersed sites. You will address complex routing, data center fabrics, and crypto-enabled networks, driving reliability, security, and scalable solutions.

This role offers the opportunity to shape modern network operations through IaC and SDN/DevOps practices in a critical mission context.

• Design, implement, and maintain reliable, scalable network systems
• Configure enterprise routing and switching with DMVPN, MPLS Segment-Routing
• Manage datacenter fabrics using Cisco ACI and Nexus platforms
• Deploy and update Palo Alto and Cisco Firepower firewalls with centralized management
• Administer Cisco ISE for secure access and Zero Trust support
• Architect and maintain GEM One management infrastructure for HAIPE devices
• Perform remote provisioning and key management for TACLANE encryptors via GEM One
• Develop automation frameworks (Ansible, Python, REST APIs) to support SDA and IaC
• Maintain core services (F5, Infoblox DNS/DHCP/IPAM)
• Identify performance bottlenecks and single points of failure
• Create a roadmap to mature DevOps practices and IaC (Terraform)
• Gather metrics for performance tuning, fault discovery, and after-action reporting
• Collaborate with operations to build automation use-cases and ensure rigorous testing/release procedures

• Bachelor’s degree in a technical discipline OR 11+ years of specialized technical experience
• Minimum 5 years of practical network engineering experience in mid-to-large scale enterprise or military environments
• Strong programming/scripting ability (Python, Go, or PowerShell)
• Hands-on experience with automation/orchestration tools (Ansible, VMware Aria Suite, ServiceNow)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• DoD 8570/8140 IAT Level II baseline certification (e.g., Security+ CE)
• U.S. Citizenship and Active Top Secret clearance with SCI

• proactive problem solving
• cross-functional collaboration
• rigorous testing and release discipline
• DMVPN
• MPLS Segment-Routing
• Cisco ACI and Nexus