Network Infrastructure Architect/Engineer

• Research, design and implement security solutions for network infrastructure
  
• Engineer network solutions for new & existing systems.
  
• Provide day-to-day network engineering and operations support
  
• Provide tactical and strategic input on overall network planning and related projects
  
• Work with advanced technical principles, theories, and concepts.
  
• Challenge with working on complex technical problems and providing innovative solutions.
  
• Work with highly experienced and technical resources.
  
• All other duties as assigned or directed.
  
• Attending customer lab environment to work with new technologies and applications
  

• DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; NAC; load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; NTP; AWS (Preferred), Azure, or Google Cloud, WAN, LAN, IPv6, TCP/IP, VPN, Ethernet Skills; EIGRP, BGP4, RIP, VPLS, MPLS; Active Cisco CCIE certification.
  

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree with 7+ years of experience
  
• 10 years of experience with designing, configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting network switching and routing protocols in a large enterprise network (7000+ nodes).
  
• 8 years of experience with configuring and managing switches, routers, Load Balancers, firewalls
  
• 8 years of experience with Network Monitoring/IPAM (i.e., SolarWinds, NetFlow)
  
• 8 years of physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signaling analyzer, packet capture and analysis
  
• 8 years of Firewall experience including designing, configuring, testing and troubleshooting.
  
• 8 years of experience and knowledge of Cisco IOS and Cisco Nexus Operating systems
  
• 8 years of experience with WAN Optimization using Riverbed and trace tools like Wireshark
  
• 5 years of experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python or Perl
  
• 5 years of experience with Gigamon
  
• Active Cisco CCIE, CCNP certification, IPv6 and PRIME experience
  
• Strong cloud networking & design experience preferably with Hyperscalers like AWS, Azure and google.
  
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust.
  

• Experience with Dynatrace
  
• Solid understanding of internet working: security, routing, switching, SAN and application networking
  
• Experience with Microsoft Server and Linux Administration
  
• Expertise in the Linux command-line environment.
  
• High availability, failover and redundant configurations
  
• Network deployment and operations automation (Ansible, Zero Touch Provisioning)
  
• Experience with virtualization solutions (i.e., VMWare).
  
• Experience documenting network information including of all switching and routing equipment, connected IP-addressable devices and cabling interconnects
  
• Provide technical competence for auditing the existing environment by creating relevant documentation where it does not exist.
  
• Plan, research, evaluate, design and develop network systems by applying engineering, hardware and software design theories and principles to develop a compatible system infrastructure in line with organization strategies
  
• Interface with customer IT leadership and internal teams to develop network, systems, and security solutions
  
• Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing.
  
• Experience in using MS Visio, Project.
  

• Active Cisco CCIE, CCNP certification
  
• Knowledge, skills and abilities creating and managing automation scripts to manage Network as a Service (Software Defined Networking (SDN), Load Balancers, firewalls, etc.
  
• Experience developing best practice project plans, engineering scripts, and documentation for network performance management.
  
• Prior Federal government experience.
  
• Self-starter, highly motivated individual who adapts and isn't afraid to volunteer in a dynamic work environment
  
• Strong attention to detail with an ability to operate effectively across multiple priorities
  
• Knowledge of relational databases and ability to construct and debug SQL queries