Network Administrator III (Wide Area Network) -Gunter

About the role

This position plays a critical role in the Air Force's defense through the operation, management, and defense of the Air Force portion of the Department of Defense (DoD) Information Network.

Responsibilities

• Administer Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Border Gateway Protocol (iBGP/eBGP), Multiprotocol Label Switching (MPLS), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and other advanced routing technologies.
• Perform advanced networking techniques to solve complex requirements such as Traffic Engineering (TE), manual load-balancing/load-sharing, policy-based route manipulation, and Internet Protocol Security (IPSec) with Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE) tunneling.
• Administer iBGP Layer 3 VPN Mesh (VPNv4/VPNv6) routing accompanying Group Encrypted Transport.
• Utilize Software Defined WAN and other intent-based solutions as deployed to manipulate network intent and behavior.
• Configure and optimize Layer 2 and Layer 3 switches to maximize aggregation links and inter-VLAN routing.
• Analyze network traffic for spikes and bandwidth hogging events and determine the origin of such traffic.
• Support the development, testing, and implementation of solutions and best practice methodologies that enable the prioritization of uptime by implementing failover and high availability configurations with two-person integrity (TPI) ensuring maximum amount of uninterrupted network operations.
• Support the essential tasks, Situational Awareness (SA), and Command and Control (C2) that comprise the operational framework that comprises NetOps.
• Support the following essential NetOps tasks: DoDIN Enterprise Management (EM), DoDIN Network Defense (DoDNetD), and DoDIN Web Content Management.
• Other network administration related tasks, as assigned.

Requirements

• Education: High School Diploma or GED
• Certification Requirements: Security+ or DoDD 8140 IAT-II equivalent; Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) is required in any of the following areas: Collaboration, Data Center, Enterprise or Service Provider
• Years of Experience: 7+ years of experience with installing, configuring, troubleshooting, upgrading, patching, and hardening routers, serial consoles, load balancers, and switches.
• Intermediate level understanding/experience with Enterprise network architectures and configurations to include Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), Border Gateway Protocol (iBGP/eBGP), Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS), Open Shortest Path First (OSPF), and other advanced routing technologies.
• A deep level of understanding/experience with enterprise level network architectures/configurations is required and Software Defined Networking (SDN) is desired.

Qualifications

• None specified

Skills

• Advanced network routing concepts and protocols
• Software Defined Networking (SDN)
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 switch configuration and optimization
• Network traffic analysis
• Failover and high availability configurations
• Enterprise network architectures and configurations

Benefits

• Not specified

Pay

Expected salary range is $85,000 to $90,000.

Schedule

Full Time

Benefits

• Not specified

Location

Montgomery, AL (Gunter Annex)

Agency submissions

Not being accepted at this time.

About Sumaria

Sumaria Systems is an equal opportunity employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, age, disability, or protected veteran status.

We are a Full Lifecycle Engineering, Technical Services and Professional Solutions company in support of the Warfighter, supporting modernization, high end services and next generation capabilities in contested domains. Sumaria has been a trusted partner to U. S. Department of Defense for more than 40 years, providing Lifecycle Systems Engineering, Advisory & Analysis/SETA, C5ISR and Enterprise Information Technology solutions. With expertise to lead, insight to deliver and commitment to succeed; we staff each mission with a carefully selected team of seasoned professionals. We're headquartered in Peabody, MA, and have regional offices across the nation.

We do not provide engineering services to the public within the meaning of Ohio Revised Code Section 4733.16.