The professionals at the National Security Agency (NSA) have one common goal: to protect our nation. The mission requires a strong offense and a steadfast defense. The offense collects, processes and disseminates intelligence information derived from foreign signals for intelligence and counterintelligence purposes. The defense prevents adversaries from gaining access to sensitive classified national security information.

The National Security Agency is a leader in deploying high-caliber solutions, continually moving forward and contributing to industry leading technologies. We are looking for results driven individuals that strive for excellence, enjoy the challenges of a fast paced environment and the desire to make a difference. We are looking for talented networking professionals to design, develop, deploy, sustain and monitor state-of-the-art network solutions (WAN, CAN, LAN, DCN and Satellite communications networks) that are deployed across NSA worldwide.

We are hiring entry to expert networking professionals with education and/or experience in several of the following areas:

- Multi-vendor infrastructure platforms (i.e., Cisco, Brocade, Juniper, Arista)
- Network encryption devices and WAN accelerators
- Multi-vendor Layer 3 routing protocols (i.e., BGP, OSFP, EIGRP, IGRP, HSRP, VRRP)
- Virtual Private Networking (i.e., MPLS, GRE, L2VPN, EVPN, Pseudowire, IPsec, MACSEC)
- Data center architectures and converged networks
- Current networking trends, including commercial implementations of Software Defined Networks (SDN) for both Data Center Network and WAN applications
- Load balancing and Application Delivery Controller technologies and implementations
- WAN architectures (i.e., Carrier Ethernet, Optical Fabrics (OTN), SONET)
- Network monitoring tools (i.e., NetFlow Tracker, HP Network Node Manager, Cisco LMS, Cisco Call Manager, Wireshark, and Splunk)
- Network Modeling (RiverBed/OPNet, NetSim)
- Network Boundary (Next Generation Firewalls (Palo Alto, Cisco FIREPOWER), IPSEC/SSL VPN Concentrators)
- Cross Domain Solutions (SafeNet MDeX System, OWL Cyber Defense Cross Domain Solutions)
- Technical certifications (e.g., CCNA, CCNP, SEC+)