Network Engineer (MSIC)

COLSA Corporation • Huntsville, AL

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About The Position

COLSA Corporation is seeking a Network Engineer to support the Missile and Space Intelligence Center (MSIC) in Huntsville, Alabama. The role supports high-performance data center network architecture, deployment, and optimization, bridging traditional enterprise networking with specialized High-Performance Computing (HPC) environments. It manages physical and logical pathways for low-latency fabrics, large-scale virtualization clusters, and high-density AI/ML and compute workloads, maintaining reliable, lossless network performance across multi-vendor leaf-spine topologies and high-throughput data pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and maintain Cisco ACI environments, including Multi-Pod and Multi-Site configurations, across high-density routing and switching platforms.
• Engineer and tune InfiniBand and RoCEv2 fabrics for ultra-low-latency data-intensive mission workloads.
• Configure, audit, and troubleshoot BGP, OSPF, and EVPN overlay deployments across Cisco Nexus, Arista, and NVIDIA/Mellanox infrastructure.
• Optimize QoS, Priority Flow Control (PFC), and Explicit Congestion Notification (ECN) to support lossless traffic flow and consistent network performance.
• Integrate network fabrics with VMware NSX, KVM, and Nutanix virtualization platforms, and high-speed storage networks such as NVMe-oF.
• Analyze network telemetry to forecast bandwidth demands for large-scale data ingestion.
• Use Python and Ansible network automation tools to enforce configuration consistency and state control.
• Ensure network architectures comply with DoD security baselines, DISA STIGs, and operational security standards for classified processing environments.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed