Senior Network Administrator

Entarian

$100K — $140K *
Aerospace & Defense
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Active DoD Secret Security Clearance required
  • CompTIA Security+ certification mandatory
  • Computing Environment (CE) Certification preferred (e.g., MCSE, CCNA)
  • Three years' experience in designing and maintaining complex networking solutions
  • Three years' experience with Palo Alto Firewalls
  • Five years' experience with Cisco technologies including Nexus, Catalyst, and Firepower
  • Strong interpersonal skills with teamwork emphasis

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with team members to design and support complex networks
  • Lead strategies for network management and troubleshooting
  • Plan and execute new network implementations
  • Create and maintain technical documents and operating procedures
  • Monitor and optimize system and network performance
  • Recommend improvements and manage hardware/software integrations
  • Support the lifecycle of mixed vendor equipment in the datacenter

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work in a mixed and evolving technical environment
  • Professional development through hands-on experience with cutting-edge technologies
  • Participation in strategic network planning and implementation
  • Collaboration with a skilled team of professionals
Full Job Description
Overview/ Job Responsibilities

Position is contingent upon contract award and funding.

Entarian is looking for a Senior Network Administrator supporting the ALTESS Windows team in a mixed and growing environment currently supporting functional teams and customers that utilize MS Windows server 2019/2022, MS SQL 2019, MS Windows 11, VMWare 7.x.,OEL 8x-9x, and Oracle Operating systems.

The responsibilities include but are not limited to:
  • Work with the existing team members who are responsible for designing and supporting multiple complex networks in different locations
  • Help lead in the strategies to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support networks for multiple customer environments
  • Lead efforts to plan, execute and implement new network implementations
  • Responsible for creating and maintaining team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies as needed
  • Ability to be adept at monitoring and tuning system and network performance, ongoing operation of the network, hardening of the network and reporting of the overall security and operational status
  • Recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed
  • Provide support toward the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance
  • Recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency to the current environment
  • Excellent communication and team skills

Salary range: $100,000.00 - $140,000.00

Minimum Qualifications

  • Active DoD Secret Security Clearance
  • CompTIA Security+
  • Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, Palo, etc.), RedHat, Palo, etc., can be waived for 30 days after project join date
  • Experience in Computer Science or IT
  • Minimum three years' experience designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining complex networking solutions
  • Minimum three years' experience configuring, updating, maintaining, administering, and migrating Palo Alto Firewalls
  • Minimum three years' experience with Network Management, Analysis, and troubleshooting tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Palo Alto Panorama, Men and Mice, etc
  • Minimum five years' experience configuring, updating, maintaining, and administering the following Cisco technologies: Cisco Nexus (9K, 7K, 5K, and 2K), Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) and Integrated Services Router (ISR) routers, and Cisco Firepower
  • Minimum three years' experience or working knowledge of SW Defined Networking
  • Minimum three years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution
  • Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player


Desired Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience
  • Three or more years' experience in automation and scripting with Python, Pearl, TCL, or Ansible
  • Three or more years' experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCA-V, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA)
  • Enterprise Resource Planning Support Lead (Program Manager - Intermediate)


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