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