Senior Network Administrator

JANUS Research Group•Radford, VA

16h

About The Position

This position is contingent upon contract award. Candidates must have an active Secret clearance and verify, before applying, that you meet the minimum requirements of the position. JANUS Research Group is seeking a Senior Network Administrator to support the IT Services and Support (ITSS) requirements for the U.S. Army Product Lead Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services (PL ALTESS) requirement, in support of the Program Executive Office Enterprise (PEO Enterprise) in Radford, VA. Senior Network Administrator will be in a mixed and growing environment currently supporting functional teams and customers that utilize MS Windows server 2019/2022, MS SQL 2019, MS Windows 11, VMWare 7.x.,OEL 8x-9x, and Oracle Operating systems. This position will work with the existing team members who are responsible for designing and supporting multiple complex networks in different locations. This position will help lead in the strategies to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support networks for multiple customer environments. The Senior Network Administrator will lead efforts to plan, execute and implement new network implementations. They will be responsible for creating and maintaining team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies as needed. This position will need to be adept at monitoring and tuning system and network performance, ongoing operation of the network, hardening of the network and reporting of the overall security and operational status and will also recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new SW/HW integrations when required while also providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions as needed. This position will provide support towards the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter to include firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance. This position will also need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency to the current environment. The position will need excellent communication and team skills.

Requirements

CompTIA Security+
Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, RedHat, Palo, etc.) or ability to obtain
DOD Secret Security Clearance
Experience in Computer Science or IT
Three or more years experience designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining complex networking solutions
Three or more years experience configuring, updating, maintaining, administering, and migrating Palo Alto Firewalls
Three or more years experience with Network Management, Analysis, and troubleshooting tools such as SolarWinds, Cisco Prime, Palo Alto Panorama, Men and Mice, etc
Five or more years experience configuring, updating, maintaining, and administering the following Cisco technologies: Cisco Nexus (9K, 7K, 5K, and 2K), Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) and Integrated Services Router (ISR) routers, and Cisco Firepower
Three years experience or working knowledge of SW Defined Networking
Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution
Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player

Nice To Haves

Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience
Three or more years experience in automation and scripting with Python, Pearl, TCL, or Ansible
Three or more years experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG), SRG, RMF, SCAV, and Cyber Operational Readiness Assessments (CORA)

Benefits

JANUS strives to provide opportunities for career growth through training and development.
We also offer an attractive comprehensive benefit package to include health and welfare plans and financial products.
As part of a total rewards program, employees can benefit from our referral bonus program, and other various employee awards.
JANUS Research Group takes pride in our benefit package and rewards program which has earned us the certification of a Great Place to Work

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