Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.

$100K — $120K *
Telecommunications & Hardware
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active Top Secret clearance required.
  • Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP) or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) or DevNet Associate certification required.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred.
  • Minimum of six years of networking experience required.
  • Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), NSO, and related technologies preferred.

Responsibilities

  • Design and support networking infrastructure in data centers.
  • Act as the expert for data center network environments.
  • Maintain network configurations for bare-metal and virtual machines.
  • Provision and configure networking for servers and applications.
  • Enhance information security across the network infrastructure.
  • Monitor network issues and implement recovery processes for outages.
  • Install and maintain system management tools for network components.
  • Write custom scripts to improve system efficiency and automate tasks.
  • Provide high-level (4th level) support.
  • Ensure up-to-date technical documentation for all systems.

Benefits

  • Onsite work environment in Pocatello, ID or Huntsville, AL.
  • Opportunities to work with advanced networking technologies.
  • Support for professional certifications and training.
  • Exposure to enterprise-level network engineering challenges.
  • Collaboration with a skilled team of networking professionals.
Full Job Description
Overview

The Cisco Network Engineer will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include switches, firewalls, load balancers, software defined networking, private cloud requirements, etc. This is onsite in Pocatello, ID and a current Top Secret clearance is required to be considered for an interview. We’re basically looking for an Enterprise Network Engineer with 6+ years’ experience, who has or is willing to get a CCNA, with a preference on Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) experience. We are hiring onsite in Pocatello, ID (Preferred) and Huntsville. You must be willing to work onsite and have a current Top Secret clearance in order to be considered.

 

 

Responsibilities
  • Design, implementation and ongoing support of the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
  • Serve as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
  • Create and maintain network infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate LAN, WAN, vLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
  • Provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
  • Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
  • Monitor and correct network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks. Provide real time alerts for network problem issues and implement proactive solutions for future problems to include re-design or tech refresh.
  • Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
  • Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANS with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
  • Provide 4th level support.
  • Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.

 

Qualifications

 

  • Must have an active and current Top Secret clearance at time of submitting application.
  • Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications.
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred
  • Six years of experience required.
  • Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Nexus Insights, and Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC) is preferred.

 

 

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