Job Description
Edgewater Federal Solutions is currently seeking a Principal Systems Engineer III (Network) to provide support to our Federal Client located in Pocatello, Idaho/Huntsville, AL or in Clarksburg, WV. In this role, you 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.
Qualifications:
- Bachelor degree is preferred and 6+ years of directly related industry experience
- U.S. Citizenship is required per contract to obtain and maintain a Top Secret clearance with SCI-CI poly.
- Must have an active Top Secret Clearance with SCI-CI Poly eligibility OR be eligible for one. You can start when a TS clearance is issued.
- Have a minimum of Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP), or Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), or DevNet Associate certifications
- 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)
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.
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
- Monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
- Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
- 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).
- Participate in the design of information and operational support systems
- Provide 4th level support
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 status protected by applicable law.