Network System Engineer

Job Title: Senior Network Systems Engineer
Duration: 6 Month Contract to Hire (Fully Onsite)
Locations: Springfield, VA

Position Summary:
Acts as a technical expert for the Operations Technology (OT) engineering team who performs the engineering, configuration and deployment of the network and virtual server infrastructure that supports the organization's OT environment. The ideal candidate would have extensive experience as a network engineer and virtualization engineer for the oil and gas industry. Must be available to serve on-call on a rotating 24 hours a day, 7 days a week schedule.

Qualifications, Skills and Abilities:
Bachelor's Degree Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems or related field required
5+ Years with enterprise and industrial grade network infrastructure is required. Experience with cisco switches and firewalls; configuring and deploying, set up out of a box, provisioned and get it installed, need to have done this all themselves not on a team that did for them; CISCO expert
1+ Years of experience with server virtualization is preferred.
Demonstrated experience working on systems within an ICS/OT environment required.
Strong knowledge of networking concepts such as VLANs, network segmentation, and routing required.
Demonstrated experience troubleshooting networks at all layers of the OSI model required.
Demonstrated experience deploying and configuring network equipment including firewalls, switches and routers required.
Strong knowledge of network communications media including fiber and CAT5/6 required.
Ability to learn through instructor led training and self-study required.
Ability to write technical documentation required.
Ability to communicate fluently in written and verbal English required.
Knowledge of process control, electronic, pneumatic and mechanical instrumentation systems preferred.
Experience working with federal and state regulatory agencies preferred.
Experience installing and programming PLCs/RTUs preferred.
Experience working with vulnerability and network scanning tools preferred.
Strong knowledge of the Purdue Model for ICS networks preferred.
Experience installing, deploying, and configuring virtual machines, hypervisors and bare metal servers is preferred.