Network Engineer

Responsibilities

• Design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies including switches, firewalls, load balancers, software-defined networking, private cloud requirements, etc.
• 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 appropriate LAN, WAN, VLAN, SDN, firewall, and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools, including virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
• Provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct critical network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks, providing real-time alerts and implementing proactive solutions for future problems, including re-design or tech refresh.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANS with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• Provide 4th level support.
• Liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date, including inventory and patch levels of all systems, such as hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts, on a monthly interval.
• Provide real-time alerts and dashboard information on network performance and availability.
• Document system configurations, including passwords, access controls, version numbers, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory, such as hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• Continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• Provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned resources, such as bandwidth utilization, for availability, performance, and trends.

Qualifications

• Clearance: TS/SCI
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, and 6 years of experience required

Benefits

OST has been operating since 1996 and has various contracts with Government agencies. We offer a comprehensive benefit package that includes:

• 3 weeks paid time off
• 2 weeks holiday pay
• medical/dental coverage
• STD, LTD, Life Insurance, AD&D
• 401k with up to 4% match
• end of year profit sharing paid out in 401k