Description

Key Required Skills:
DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; NAC; load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; NTP; AWS (Preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud, WAN, LAN, IPv6, TCP/IP, VPN, Ethernet Skills; EIGRP, BGP4, RIP, VPLS, MPLS; Active Cisco CCIE certification.

Position Description:

  • Research, design, and implement security solutions for network infrastructure.
  • Engineer network solutions for new & existing systems.
  • Provide day-to-day network engineering and operations support.
  • Provide tactical and strategic input on overall network planning and related projects.
  • Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
  • Challenge with working on complex technical problems and providing innovative solutions.
  • Work with highly experienced and technical resources.
  • All other duties as assigned or directed.
  • Attending customer lab environment to work with new technologies and applications.


Skills Requirements:

  • 10 years of experience with designing, configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting network switching and routing protocols in a large enterprise network (7000+ nodes).
  • 8 years of experience with configuring and managing switches, routers, Load Balancers, firewalls
  • 8 years of experience with Network Monitoring/IPAM (i.e., SolarWinds, NetFlow)
  • 8 years of physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signalling analyser, packet capture and analysis
  • 8 years of Firewall experience including designing, configuring, testing, and troubleshooting.
  • 8 years of experience and knowledge of Cisco IOS and Cisco Nexus Operating systems
  • 8 years of experience with WAN Optimization using Riverbed and trace tools like Wireshark
  • 5 years of experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python or Perl
  • 5 years of experience with Gigamon
  • Active Cisco CCIE, CCNP certification, IPv6 and PRIME experience
  • Strong cloud networking & design experience preferably with Hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and google.
  • Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.


Required Skills:

  • Experience with Dynatrace
  • Solid understanding of internetworking: security, routing, switching, SAN, and application networking
  • Experience with Microsoft Server and Linux Administration
  • Expertise in the Linux command-line environment.
  • High availability, failover, and redundant configurations
  • Network deployment and operations automation (Ansible, Zero Touch Provisioning)
  • Experience with virtualization solutions (i.e., VMWare).
  • Experience documenting network information including of all switching and routing equipment, connected IP-addressable devices and cabling interconnects.
  • Provide technical competence for auditing the existing environment by creating relevant documentation where it does not exist.
  • Plan, research, evaluate, design, and develop network systems by applying engineering, hardware and software design theories and principles to develop a compatible system infrastructure in line with organization strategies.
  • Interface with customer IT leadership and internal teams to develop network, systems, and security solutions.
  • Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.
  • Experience in using MS Visio, Project.


Desired Skills:

  • Active Cisco CCIE, CCNP certification
  • Knowledge, skills, and abilities creating and managing automation scripts to manage Network as a Service (Software Defined Networking (SDN), Load Balancers, firewalls, etc.
  • Experience developing best practice project plans, engineering scripts, and documentation for network performance management.
  • Prior Federal government experience.
  • Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment.
  • Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities.
  • Knowledge of relational databases and ability to construct and debug SQL queries.


Education:

  • Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience
  • Must be able to obtain a Public Trust

Education

ANY GRADUATE