Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions•Pocatello, ID

1d•Onsite

About The Position

The Cisco Network Engineer is responsible for designing, deploying, testing, certifying, patching, and resolving interoperability issues for network features, components, and application dependencies, including switches, firewalls, load balancers, software-defined networking, and private cloud requirements. The role supports networking infrastructure within and between data centers and serves as the advanced subject matter expert for data center network environments. This position is onsite in Pocatello, Idaho. An active, current Top Secret clearance is required to be considered for an interview, and the employee must be willing to sit for a CI Poly after starting employment.

Requirements

Active and current Top Secret clearance at the time of application submission.
Willingness to sit for a CI Poly after starting employment.
Six years of experience.
BGP experience.
OSPF experience.
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certification; if not already held, willingness to obtain a certification within six months of starting.
Willingness to work onsite in Pocatello, Idaho.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred.
Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Nexus Insights, and Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC).

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and provide ongoing support for networking infrastructure within and between data centers.
Serve as the advanced subject matter expert for all data center network environments.
Create and maintain network infrastructure for bare-metal and virtual machines, including appropriate LAN, WAN, VLAN, SDN, firewall, and load balancer configurations, using OEM and third-party tools, including virtual network tools such as NSX and related services.
Provision and configure the networking required for servers and applications.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
Monitor and correct network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks.
Provide real-time alerts for network problems and implement proactive solutions, including redesigns or technology refreshes.
Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
Write and maintain custom scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce human intervention, including automated provisioning of addresses and VLANs with IaaS.
Provide fourth-level support.
Ensure technical documentation for all systems exists and remains current, including monthly updates to inventory and patch-level information such as hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, core and processor counts, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts.