Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.•Huntsville, AL

11h•Onsite

About The Position

Future Opportunities: Cisco Network Engineers Are you a Cisco Network Engineer ready to take your career to the next level and support critical national missions? Edgewater Federal Solutions is actively building a pipeline of talented professionals for future full-time opportunities across our growing programs. Whether you already hold an Active Top Secret Clearance or are looking for an employer willing to sponsor you for one, we encourage you to apply and connect with our team. These are for future opportunities and we would love to get you in our pipeline. We're seeking passionate network professionals who thrive in complex environments, enjoy solving challenging technical problems, and want their work to have a meaningful impact. By joining our talent community now, you'll be among the first considered as new opportunities become available. If you're looking for a role where your expertise can support mission-critical operations while continuing to grow your career, we'd love to hear from you.

Requirements

Must be a US citizen and be able to obtain a Top Secret clearance
Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications
Six years of experience required.

Nice To Haves

Bachelor’s degree preferred but not required
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) is preferred.

Responsibilities

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 the appropriate LAN, WAN, vLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
Provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain the 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 problem issues and implement proactive solutions for future problems to include re-design or tech refresh.
Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANS with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
Provide 4th level support.
Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.