Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.

• $100K — $120K *
Information Technology
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Must be a US citizen and able to obtain a Top Secret clearance
  • Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications required
  • Bachelor’s degree preferred but not mandatory
  • Minimum of six years of relevant experience
  • Familiarity with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and related technologies preferred

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement networking infrastructure for data centers
  • Act as the advanced subject matter expert for data center networks
  • Create and maintain network configurations for both physical and virtual environments
  • Provision and configure networking for servers and applications
  • Evaluate and enhance information security across the network infrastructure
  • Monitor network performance and implement corrective measures
  • Install and maintain system management tools for network components
  • Develop custom scripts to automate tasks and improve efficiency
  • Provide 4th level technical support
  • Maintain up-to-date technical documentation for all systems

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with cutting-edge networking technologies
  • Engagement in high-stakes projects requiring advanced expertise
  • Potential for career advancement in a specialized field
  • Access to ongoing training and certification opportunities
  • Collaborative work environment with a focus on innovation
Full Job Description
Overview

Future Opportunities: Cisco Network Engineers

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 be a US citizen and be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance
  • Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications
  • Bachelors degree preferred but not required
  • 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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