Unified Comms Engineer – Federal Customer (Active TS -SCI Security Clearance required)

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

Unified Comms Engineer – Federal Customer Chantilly, VA – Onsite 5 days per week. TS/SCI RequiredIf you enjoy working with new technologies, enterprise-leading equipment, and seeking to optimize systems to achieve maximum performance, we would like to speak to you. This position will play a key role in driving the performance, stability, and scalability of next-generation networks to support enterprise Information Technology (IT) workloads.You will join a diverse team of software and platform engineers to design, deploy, and maintain network infrastructure. You will collaborate with people inside and outside the organization to deliver the highest standards for building, deploying, and scaling networks.The Network Development Engineer is focused on automating the deployment and support of critical network infrastructure. This includes interacting directly with networking hardware (switches, routers, firewalls, etc.) and enterprise software-defined control planes.

Key Job Responsibilities

• Network Development Engineers perform high-quality network and systems operations, deployments, scaling, technology refresh, sustaining engineering, best practices applications, optimization, internal/external customer interactions, and produce appropriate technical documentation.
• Create and implement changes through automation.
• Deliver simple, sustainable, and repeatable solutions and processes.
• Operate and trouble-shoot network routing, interconnectivity, platforms, performance, and configuration issues; including low level application interaction, Linux systems, and next-gen networking software tools.
• Maintain standards across the networking toolroll-out of new designs and products, as well as assist with deployment and sustaining of network infrastructure and tooling.
• Proficient in either Python or Go programming language.
• Experience working with networking protocols and APIs, ideally Open vSwitch and/or any RESTful APIs for network devices and services.
• Proficient in network topologies and architecture (VLAN, LAN, WAN).
• Experience with automation frameworks, specifically Ansible, to write scripts and automa