Sr. Network Engineer (Clearance needed)

Position Duties & Responsibilities

• Planning: Conducts short and long-term planning to meet network requirements
• Network System Design and Implementation: Designs and implements network systems
• Strong working familiarity with F5 Networks, Juniper JUNOS and/or Cisco IOS with hands-on experience configuring routers, switches, load balancers, and firewalls
• Network Connectivity: Provides support for network connectivity or related network issues for the user community
• Network Installation: Plans and monitors the installation of network systems
• Network Monitoring: Analyzes network activity and network problems to discover and prevent systematic errors. Recommends network design changes/enhancements for improved systems availability and performance
• Issue Resolution: Troubleshoots, diagnoses and resolves network problems. Researches, analyzes and recommends the implementation of software or hardware changes to rectify any network deficiencies or to enhance network performance
• Capacity Planning: Analyzes facilities bandwidth requirements and system interdependencies. Develops capacity planning models
• Disaster Recovery: Ensures planned testing activities are performed and technical criteria are met
• Network Performance Assessment: Assesses network performance to ensure that it meets the present and future needs of the business. Provides network planning recommendations to management
• Vendor Management: Evaluates services provided by vendors and recommends changes
• Knowledge of Enterprise system monitoring and management tools such as Splunk, Solarwinds, Wireshark, Websense, MRTG and NMAP
• Knowledge of commercial enterprise-level tools and products to provide network services, including: firewalls, IPS/IDS, DNS, DHCP, web security, VPN, and NAC

Required Skills & Background

• 8+ years minimum network engineering experience
• 4+ years experience with technical work in a DoD / DoW environment
• 4+ years experience in an enterprise network environment with both administration and problem resolution of F5, Juniper and/or Cisco solutions required
• Knowledge of ITIL processes and experience adhering to them in a production environment
• Knowledge of DoD standards and compliance (ie STIGs, Retina report output)
• Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP), or Juniper Network Certified Internet Specialist (JNCIS), F5 Certified Administrator -Security+ certification per DoD 8570 policy compliance

Desired Skills

• Knowledge of Cisco SRND/SAFE and industry best practices
• Familiarity with network, server, storage virtualization, i.e. MDS switching infrastructure, VSAN, VRF, VPN, and VMWare vSphere
• Experience with Juniper products to include: M/MX-series, EX, and SRX
• Experience with Cisco enterprise grade products to include: Nexus 7000, 6500, 4500, ISR G2, ISR, ASA, IPS/IDS, TACACS+, and Radius
• Advanced knowledge of IOS, JUNOS, NX-OS, MPLS, BGP, GRE, IPSec VPN, and OSPF