Senior Network Engineer

Job description

Introduction
The infrastructure running industries likes transportation, energy, insurance, banking or healthcare is quickly changing as the world’s relationship with technology evolves. Companies have more choices than ever before between on-premise, off-premise, or a hybrid approach. Our Infrastructure Specialists are responsible for keeping up with these latest and greatest of these changes and using their expertise to deliver solutions that meet the needs of our customers and products.

Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for a Network Engineer focused on the implementation and sustainment of switches routers firewalls load balancers and network management tools. The focus is a datacenter environment supporting two separate DoD networks. Responsibilities include network management/analysis/troubleshooting developing and maintaining local operating procedures and policies developing and maintaining network automation and scripts and monitoring the ongoing operation of the network.

Required Certifications:
• CompTIA Security+ or other IAT II Baseline equivalent
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification Professional Level or higher (i.e. Cisco CCNP Cisco CCNP Datacenter Juniper Palo Alto F5 etc.)

Location onsite Radford VA

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

·  DOD Secret or higher required Day 1
·  5+ years of Network Engineering
·  5+ years of configuring and maintaining switches routers firewalls load balancers and network management tools
·  Experience with network management analysis and troubleshooting tools
·  Experience with Data Center Management
·  Ability to train junior team members
·  Experience in implementing and maintaining security management strategies. (DISA STIGs experience preferred but not required)
·  Experience with development of project documentation to include standard operating procedures project plans and network diagrams

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise
• 5+ years of switch management experience
• Experience with the Cisco Nexus (7K 5K and 2K) line and Cisco Catalyst line
• Experience with Palo Alto firewalls
• Experience with Cisco ACI
• Experience with F5 load balancers
• Experience with Ansible and Python
• Experience with network automation and scripting
• Experience interfacing with cloud environment counterparts (AWS Azure Private)
• Experience working in DevSecOps environments