Senior Network Administrator

Integral Federal • Radford, VA

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About The Position

The Senior Network Administrator supports the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) in a mixed and growing environment serving functional teams and customers. The environment includes MS Windows Server 2019/2022, MS SQL 2019, MS Windows 11, VMware 7.x, OEL 8x–9x, and Oracle operating systems. The role supports network and server operations across multiple customer environments, leads network implementation efforts, and helps maintain secure, reliable, and efficient systems.

Requirements

• Experience in computer science or IT.
• At least 3 years of experience designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining complex networking solutions.
• At least 3 years of experience configuring, updating, maintaining, administering, and migrating Palo Alto firewalls.
• At least 3 years of experience with network management, analysis, and troubleshooting tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Palo Alto Panorama, or Men and Mice.
• At least 5 years of experience configuring, updating, maintaining, and administering Cisco Nexus (9K, 7K, 5K, and 2K), Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco ASR and ISR routers, and Cisco Firepower.
• 3 years of experience or working knowledge of software-defined networking.
• At least 3 years of experience creating and maintaining standard operating procedures and following them for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.
• CompTIA Security+ certification.
• Computing Environment (CE) certification, such as MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, or Palo Alto; may be waived for 30 days after the project join date.
• Strong interpersonal, communication, and teamwork skills; willingness to be a team player.
• Active DoD Secret security clearance.

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience.
• At least 3 years of experience in automation and scripting with Python, Perl, TCL, or Ansible.
• At least 3 years of experience supporting cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCA-V, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA).

Responsibilities

• Work with the existing Windows team to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot, and support servers for a mixed customer environment.
• Help lead strategies for managing, maintaining, deploying, troubleshooting, and supporting networks across multiple customer environments.
• Lead planning, execution, and implementation of new network deployments.
• Create and maintain team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies as needed.
• Monitor and tune system and network performance; support ongoing network operations and hardening; and report overall security and operational status.
• Recommend enterprise improvements and manage new software and hardware integrations when required.
• Provide utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions.
• Support the lifecycle of mixed vendor equipment in the datacenter, including firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance.
• Recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency in the current environment.

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Short-term and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• Paid time off and holidays
• Earned bonuses and awards
• Professional training reimbursement
• Paid parking
• Employee assistance program
• Paid parental leave
• Immediate vesting in the 401(k)

What This Job Offers

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