Federal Network Automation Engineer (TS/SCI) - Onsite

Dell; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Dell is seeking a Unified Communications Engineer for Federal Customer in Chantilly, VA. The role is onsite five days a week and requires TS/SCI clearance. You will help design, deploy, and maintain high-performance networks to support IT workloads, documenting processes and automating changes.

You will work with networking hardware and enterprise software-defined control planes, focusing on automation, scalability, and reliability, including Open vSwitch, RESTful APIs, and Ansible-based tooling.

Qualifications

• Must have TS/SCI clearance.
• Experience with network automation and SDN tooling preferred.
• Ability to design and implement scalable network solutions.

Responsibilities

• Perform high-quality network and systems operations, deployments, scaling, and documentation.
• Create and implement changes through automation.
• Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes.
• Troubleshoot network routing, topology, platforms, and performance; interact with Linux systems and networking tools.
• Maintain standards across toolrollouts and assist with deployment and sustaining of network infrastructure.

Skills

Python

Go

Linux

Networking protocols/APIs

Open vSwitch

RESTful APIs

Ansible

Network automation

VLAN/LAN/WAN

Job description

Dell is seeking a Unified Communications Engineer for Federal Customer in Chantilly, VA. The role is onsite five days a week and requires TS/SCI clearance. You will help design, deploy, and maintain high-performance networks to support IT workloads, documenting processes and automating changes.

You will work with networking hardware and enterprise software-defined control planes, focusing on automation, scalability, and reliability, including Open vSwitch, RESTful APIs, and Ansible-based tooling.