Principal Systems Engineer III (Network)

ECS Federal•POCATELLO, ID

2d•Onsite

About The Position

ECS is seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Network) to work in its Pocatello, Idaho office. The role is responsible for the design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and interoperability of data center network features, components, and application dependencies, including switches, firewalls, load balancers, software-defined networking, and private cloud requirements. The engineer designs, implements, and supports networking infrastructure within and between data centers, and serves as the subject-matter expert for data center network environments. The position includes provisioning and configuring networking for servers and applications; maintaining network security, availability, backup, and redundancy; monitoring performance and resolving issues; and creating alerts, dashboards, recovery processes, and proactive solutions. The engineer also maintains system-management tools, develops custom scripts to improve efficiency and automate tasks, provides fourth-level support, and works with vendors and IT personnel to resolve problems. The role requires maintaining current technical documentation and resource inventories, providing performance and resource-utilization reporting, and transferring knowledge to Government staff through training and assistance. A current Top Secret clearance and the capability to obtain SCI/CI-Poly are required. Candidates must have at least six years of experience and a CCNA, DevNet Associate, or equivalent network-vendor associate-level certification.

Requirements

Current Top Secret clearance.
Capability to obtain SCI/CI-Poly to meet contract requirements.
At least six years of experience.
Minimum Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), DevNet Associate, or equivalent network-vendor associate-level certification.

Nice To Haves

Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), and Nexus Insights.

Responsibilities

Design, implement, and provide ongoing support for networking infrastructure within and between data centers.
Serve as the advanced subject-matter expert for data center network environments.
Create and maintain network infrastructure for bare-metal and virtual machines, including LAN, WAN, VLAN, SDN, firewall, and load-balancer configurations using OEM and third-party tools and services, including NSX.
Provision and configure networking required for servers and applications.
Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security across the data center network infrastructure.
Monitor and correct network issues; 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 data center network components.
Proactively ensure high levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
Monitor and test application performance, identify potential bottlenecks and solutions, and work with developers to implement fixes.
Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
Write and maintain custom scripts to improve system efficiency and reduce manual intervention, including automation of address and VLAN provisioning with IaaS.
Participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
Provide fourth-level support and liaise with vendors and other IT personnel to resolve problems.
Maintain up-to-date technical documentation and monthly system inventories, including hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, cores, processors, administrative passwords, certificates, and service accounts.
Provide real-time alerts and dashboard information on network performance and availability.
Document system configurations, including passwords, access controls, version and revision numbers, patch levels, inventory, hostnames, TCP/IP addresses, processors, cores, memory, and license keys.
Transfer knowledge to Government staff through training and assistance on technology and industry best practices.
Provide real-time reporting on provisioned and non-provisioned resources, including bandwidth utilization and availability, performance, and trend metrics.