Principal Cisco Network Systems Engineer

Edgewater Federal Solutions; Pocatello (ID); On-site; USD 85,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

A government contracting firm in Pocatello, ID is seeking a Cisco Network Engineer with a current Top Secret clearance. Responsibilities include designing and supporting data center networking infrastructure, monitoring network issues, and writing scripts to improve system efficiency. Candidates should have a Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of experience in networking roles. Certifications such as CCNA or CCDP are preferred. This position requires onsite work and involves critical networking tasks in a dynamic environment.

Qualifications

• Must have an active and current Top Secret clearance at time of submitting application.
• 6+ years of experience in networking roles.
• Experience with ACI, Tetration, MSO, NAE, NSO, Nexus Insights, and DNAC.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support networking infrastructure within data centers.
• Serve as an expert for all data center network environments.
• Maintain network configurations for servers and applications.
• Monitor and correct network issues with proactive solutions.
• Install, configure, and maintain system management tools.
• Write and maintain scripts for system efficiency.

Skills

Top Secret clearance

Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI)

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)

Network Services Orchestrator (NSO)

DevNet Associate certification

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Locations

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

General Information

ID: 2026-4520 | Category: Information Technology | Type: Full Time

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, Clarksburg, WV or in Huntsville, AL. You must be willing to work onsite and have a curren 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.

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. #LI-SW1