Network Management Administrator

Duties and Responsibilities:

Experience in Active Directory, VMware, CISCO and Juniper networks 
Support the contractor team with Agency’s CDM infrastructure program, in all FireEye actions, capabilities, and processes 
Support as required all CDM initiatives and security policies 
Rapidly gain an understanding of the customer’s networks, network configurations, processes, policies, and procedures; the use of FireEye in support of the CDM program 
Develop and support of the FireEye monitoring platform 
Maintaining current FireEye installation 
Perform real-time packet capture and historic analysis to inspect and store the inbound and outbound web traffic along with inspection of external emails for malicious content 
Perform product updates, upgrades and apply patches to the application and the underlying platform 
Working with different service owners to logically group individual data points into actionable categories 
Proactively identifying gaps within the monitoring solution and remediating those gaps 
Working with service owners to filter irrelevant data and alerts from various FireEye platforms 
Manage and work in a Virtual and Physical operating system and services environment such as VMWare and Red Hat platform and Dell Physical Server infrastructure 
Perform daily system checks, review and respond to events reflected in various management tools, perform server patch management 
Notify Government representative of issues involving performance of the application and operating environment 
Conduct system audit reviews and perform maintenance functions as required to ensure system health 
Demonstrate strong oral and written communication skills, with the ability to communicate technical topics to management and non-technical audiences, as well as interface with the customer on a daily basis

Requirements

Basic Qualifications:

Minimum Knowledge, Skills, Abilities Needed.

Bachelor’s degree and 7 years of relative experience, Master's degree and 5 years of relative experience, or 9 years of relative experience in an IT field in lieu of a degree 
3 + years of experience with design, architect and maintain FireEye hardware and software 
3 + years of experience with FireEye CM, NX, AX, EX, and PX 
Certifications: CISSP or Cisco Certified Internetworking Associate (CCNA) 
Ability to obtain a position of public trust

Preferred Qualifications:

Candidates with these skills will be given preferential consideration. 
Network certifications or other professional security certifications in addition to CISSP or CCNA. Certification such as Splunk 
Administrator, CEH, Cofense or other technical certification showing network and firewall experience 
Deep technical knowledge and understanding of FireEye devices, understanding of FireEye processes and procedures 
General understanding and knowledge of networking tools, such as Splunk, etc. 
General understanding and knowledge of the technical aspects and requirements of the Federal Government’s Continuous 
Diagnostics and Monitoring (CDM) Program .Has actively acted as the point person for critical issues that affect the server and storage infrastructure for the network monitoring platform 
Experience/understanding of SNMP protocol, ability to perform MIB analysis and configure SNMP trap parsing and SNMP table polling 
Experience with instrument monitoring to detect network performance problems 
Possess a working knowledge of Cisco IOS and be able to perform configuration changes on network devices 
EMC Storage, SMARTS Administration 
Active Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) 
Prior Federal Client experience is a plus