DHA NE&S - Senior Network Engineer

PENDING CONTRACT AWARD

Mission Objectives - DHA's European medical facilities provide critical healthcare to forward-deployed forces, families, and retirees, often in joint and NATO environments that depend on resilient, secure networks to sustain clinical operations and theater readiness. NES supports the Network Modernization Branch in delivering comprehensive LAN/WLAN sustainment and deployment services across CONUS and OCONUS MTFs to ensure operational readiness of the MHS mission.

The Senior Network Engineer - Europe ensures that LAN/WLAN infrastructure across European MTFs and GSUs is engineered, secured, and sustained to support uninterrupted care in deployed and host-nation environments, making this role central to DHA's global mission success

[Position Responsibility Summary]

The Senior Network Engineer -serves as the regional technical lead for all LAN/WLAN activities in EUCOM, including high-level design, complex troubleshooting, security hardening, and coordination with MTF leadership, host base communications, and other CSPs/GSPs.

• Serve as the senior LAN/WLAN engineer and primary regional point of contact for network issues, configuration management, addressing, multi-protocol routing, and network management across all DHA-managed European MTFs and GSUs.
• Ensure that LAN/WLAN/WAN infrastructure adequately supports the MHS mission in Europe by providing high-level installation, configuration, documentation, management, and troubleshooting of network communication equipment at hospitals, clinics, and remote sites.
• Diagnose and resolve complex network and routing issues across all OSI layers using tools such as SolarWinds, Armis, and Ansible; interpret MIBs and MRTG-type statistics to design and implement performance optimization and capacity planning measures.
• Design, implement, and maintain LAN/WLAN/WAN security barrier systems (firewalls, VPNs, IDS/IPS) that prevent unauthorized access to MTF systems and comply with DoD, DHA, and European Regional Command security objectives and policies.
• Establish and enforce LAN/WLAN/WAN procedures and standards to ensure compliance with DoD directives, DHA policies, EUCOM theater guidance, and host-nation constraints where applicable.
• Lead planning and execution of network modernization efforts, Med-COI migrations, and infrastructure refreshes across European sites, including SIP development, Limited Upgrade Plans, cutover coordination, and 'as-built' documentation, while minimizing clinical disruption.
• Coordinate closely with Government staff, base communications squadrons, and other contractors to resolve cross-boundary LAN/WAN issues, support PPSM and ATO requirements, and ensure alignment with the EITSI ecosystem.
• Provide written technical recommendations and standards updates through collaboration with the NetMOD Network Standards Team; contribute to enterprise policies and procedures that reflect best practices and accommodate European-specific requirements.
• Participate in 24x7 on-call rotations, provide remote escalation support for Critical and High incidents, and coordinate on-site response and communication with MTF leadership and NMB as necessary to meet or exceed PRS availability and incident response targets.
• Mentor and oversee Referral Network Engineers, Network Engineer Associates, Network Specialists, and Systems & Network Specialist (Sembach) in the region to ensure consistent, high-quality delivery across all European NES work.