Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions, Inc.; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Edgewater Federal Solutions seeks an experienced Network Engineer to design, deploy, and support enterprise networking across data centers. You will handle SDN, LAN/WAN, firewalls, load balancers, and private clouds, ensuring interoperability and performance.

The role requires a current Top Secret clearance, the ability to work onsite in ID or Huntsville, AL, and 6+ years of relevant experience with CCNA/CCDP/DevNet certifications. Preference for ACI/NSO expertise.

Qualifications

• Active Top Secret clearance required for consideration.
• 6+ years of enterprise networking experience in data center or similar environments.
• CCNA, CCDP, or DevNet Associate certification or equivalent.
• Experience with ACI, NSO, MSO, NAE, and related network orchestration tools preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, deployment, testing, and certification of enterprise network infrastructure.
• Maintain interconnectivity across data centers with LAN/WAN and SDN configurations.
• Provide advanced 4th level support and incident response for network issues.
• Develop scripts for automation of provisioning and VLAN management.
• Create and maintain documentation including inventory, patch levels, and credentials.
• Ensure information security across data center networks and perform ongoing tuning.
• Work onsite and coordinate with government contracting requirements.

Skills

CCNA/CCDP/DevNet cert

6+ years experience

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

NSO

NSX

DNA Center

DNAC

Job description

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 Network 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 (Preferred) and Huntsville. 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 submitting application.
• Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred
• 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) is preferred.

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. 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.