Sr Network Administrator - Quantico VA -Onsite

Required Education, Experience, & Skills
Minimum Education and Experience:

Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, with 6(six) or more years of work experience in monitoring, managing and administering internet protocol (IP) networks in a production environment or, in lieu of education, ten (10) years of experience. If utilizing in lieu of education, all experience must be at or above the position level described above.

SKlLL Level: At a minimum, the Network Administrator, senior level, shall have demonstrated experience in:

• A relevant industry certification, such as COMPTIA Network+, Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA), etc.
• Experience leading teams of personnel with Network Administrator skills
• Proficiency designing, building, and maintaining physical and virtual networking devices, encryption (experience with Taclanes preferred), Firewall devices and rules, and networking Layer 2 and 3 devices and configurations
• Expertise researching, evaluating, testing, recommending, integrating deploying, and installing network equipment and solutions to meet objectives and requirements to include new technologies.
• Ability to confer with and advise management, engineers, senior network administrators, and system administrators on the management, functional capabilities and enhancement of supported networks.
• Demonstrated ability to develop, test, document, and implement changes to communications networks to ensure efficient operation, interoperability with supported and affiliated tools, systems and networks, and maximized user experience.
• Development of automated methods to deploy switches and firewalls with consistent results using applicable technologies for various manufacturer products.
• Ability to manage, train and developing skills of junior network administrators.
• Proven ability to proactively troubleshoot, resolve, and provide technical assistance related to networking issues in support of mission objectives and customer issues and requirements.
• Experience conducting reverse engineering of networks, producing documentation, and the ability explain results and potential areas of improvement and optimization.
• Resolve interoperability problems to maintain connectivity throughout the network
• Analyze traffic information and provide analyses to justify network optimization and reconfiguration
• Provide technical assistance, training and system documentation for users to promote efficient operation of communication networks
• Evaluate and recommend products and services from vendors
• Conduct reverse engineering of networks, provide documentation, and explain results.
• Experience with Arista and Netgear required
• Must have Top Secret clearance with the ability to sit for a CI Poly.

Preferred Education, Experience, & Skills

• Implementation of network Quality of Service (QoS) policies
• Use of SMB protocols to allow advancement of storage technologies
• Configuring and validation of RDMA technologies
• Expertise with Cloud and/or Hybrid Cloud networking integration and sustainment.