Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions • Pocatello, ID

17h • Onsite

About The Position

The Cisco Network Engineer will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies. This includes switches, firewalls, load balancers, software-defined networking, and private cloud requirements. The role requires an Enterprise Networks Engineer with 6+ years of experience, who has or is willing to obtain a CCNA, with a preference for Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) experience. The position is onsite in Pocatello, ID, Huntsville, AL, or Clarksburg, WV, and requires a current Top Secret clearance.

Requirements

• Must have an active and current Top Secret clearance at time of submitting application.
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree, and six years of experience required.

Nice To Haves

• 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).
• Willing to get a CCNA

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.

Benefits

• ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified
• CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services
• Named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025
• Equal employment opportunities

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior