Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 145,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Cisco Network Engineer with 6+ years of experience to design, deploy, test, and certify complex data-center networking across multiple sites. A current Top Secret clearance is required to be considered for an interview.

The role emphasizes SDN, NSO, ACI, DNAC and related tooling, with hands-on work on switches, firewalls, load balancers, and private cloud services. On-site in Huntsville, AL or other listed locations; CCNA/CCDP/DevNet certifications

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance at time of submission.
• Cisco CCDP/CCNA or DevNet Associate certifications.
• Bachelor's degree with at least six years of experience.
• Experience with ACI, Tetration, MSO, NAE, NSO, Nexus Insights and DNAC.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, test and support data center networking across sites.
• Lead as the expert for data center network environments.
• Configure and maintain network infrastructure for bare-metal and virtual servers with LAN/WAN/VLAN/SDN/firewall/load balancer.
• Provision networking for servers and applications.
• Ensure information security across the data center network.
• Monitor, diagnose and recover from network issues; implement proactive improvements.
• Install, configure and maintain system management tools for network components.
• Write scripts to automate provisioning of addresses and VLANs via IaaS.
• Provide 4th level support.
• Maintain up-to-date technical documentation including inventory, patch levels, hostnames, IPs, and accounts monthly.

Skills

Network engineering

Security clearance

Cisco certifications (CCNA/CCDP/DevNet

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

NSX

MSO

NSO

Nexus Insights

DNAC

ACI

Tetration

Job description

Job Locations

• US-ID-Pocatello
• US-WV-Clarksburg
• US-AL-Huntsville

Overview

The Cisco Network Engineer will be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components, and application dependencies. To include switches, firewalls, load balancers, software defined networking, private cloud requirements, etc. This is onsite in Pocatello, ID and a current Top Secret clearance is required to be considered for an interview. We're basically looking for an Enterprise Networks Engineer with 6+ years' experience, who has or is willing to get a CCNA, with a preference on Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI) and Network Services Orchestrator (NSO) experience. We are hiring onsite in Pocatello, ID, Huntsville, AL or in Clarksburg, WV. You must be willing to work onsite and have a current Top Secret clearance in order to be considered.

Responsibilities

• Design, implementation and ongoing support of the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
• Create and maintain network infrastructure for both bare-metal and virtual machines with the appropriate LAN, WAN, vLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations, using both OEM and third-party tools that include virtual network tools (NSX) and services.
• Provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct network issues and create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks. Provide real time alerts for network problem issues and implement proactive solutions for future problems to include re-design or tech refresh.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time on any tasks, such as automated provisioning of addresses and VLANS with Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS).
• Provide 4th level support.
• Ensure technical documentation exists for all systems and is kept up to date to include inventory and patch levels of all systems to include hostnames, property numbers, IP addresses, enclave, number of cores, number of processors, admin passwords, certificates, and service accounts on a monthly interval.

Qualifications

• Must have an active and current Top Secret clearance at time of submittig application.
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications.
• Bachelor's degree, and six years of experience required.
• Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), Nexus Insights, and Digital Network Architecture Center (DNAC).

About Us

Edgewater Federal Solutions is a privately held government contracting firm located in Frederick, MD. The company was founded in 2002 with the vision of being highly recognized and admired for supporting customer missions through employee empowerment, exceptional services, and timely delivery. Edgewater Federal Solutions is ISO 9001, 20000-1, 270001 certified, appraised at CMMI Level 3 Maturity for Development and Services, and has been named in the Top Workplaces in the Greater Washington Area Small Companies for 2018 through 2025.

Equal Employment Opportunity

It has been and continues to be the policy of Edgewater Federal Solutions to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, and/or other statuses protected by applicable law.