F5 Network Engineer

Who We Are.

At CMIT we do more than provide realworld solutions. We deliver transformative results. Through cuttingedge technology and process innovations we are changing how federal and commercial clients worldwide deliver their mission. A servicedisabled veteranowned small business we take pride in serving our nation through exemplary support for our clients and employees alike.

F5 NETWORK ENGINEER

CMIT is seeking an F5 Network Engineer to support our Operations Team and join our JSP ETMNG (Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management Next Gen) contract at the Pentagon. Due to the nature of this role the employee must report fulltime onsite in in Arlington VA.

As an F5 Network Engineer you will provide technical leadership oversight and direction to the Core Transport Network Engineering team and mentors and instructs network engineers on best practices and the of network enhancements and upgrades and troubleshooting efforts in a large and complex network environment. You will be responsible for the health and maintenance of a large complex networking infrastructure. This includes providing network administration and operational support to more than 8000 networked devices. The F5 Network Engineer will provide comprehensive network administration security enhancements and remediation and troubleshooting of network devices such as routers switches load balancers VPNs 802.11 Wireless and VoIP.

Responsibilities

• Act as a subjectmatter expert to network routing and switching as well as network performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Review completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.
• Evaluate new application infrastructure and cloud decisions in existing context of applications infrastructure standards current business strategy and future business strategy.
• Determine system specifications input/output processes and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to lessexperienced IT sta and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Serve as liaison with senior clients participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Provides problem and incident resolution including dealing with software and hardware vendor technical support.
• Deploy and maintain network hardware peripherals services and settings in accordance with industry standards and project/operational requirements.
• Performs daily system monitoring; verifies the integrity and availability of networking hardware services systems and key processes; reviews system and application logs.
• Documents and conducts changes during ASI windows.
• Provides leadership in oncall troubleshooting and issue resolution as required.
• Develops and maintains installation and configuration procedures.
• Collaborate with the Security team to identify and remediate application and operating system vulnerabilities.
• Acts as a liaison with other groups to provide information sharing pertaining to the needs of the diverse set of computer users supported by the client as a whole.
• Develop scripts and other automation solutions to aid in the completion of migration and integration tasks.
• Review problems to understand the root causes of issues and ensure proper fixes are implemented.
• Provide high level expertise to multiple projects and tasks.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
• Participate in special projects as required.
• Other duties as assigned

Education/Certification Required

• Bachelors Degree in computer science or a related technical discipline or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II baseline certification (i.e. CCNASecurity CySA GICSP GSEC Security CE CND or SSCP) or higher level certification required
• Must have ONE or more of the following active network certifications: Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA) Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP) or Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA).

Qualifications Required

• 10 or more years of related information technology experience
• 3 years experience supporting DOD DISA or JSP Network environments.
• Understanding of best practices pertaining to network security and may require the development deployment and integration of network security services.
  
• Expert knowledge of information technology principles methods and techniques.
• Experience with F5 load balancers to include troubleshooting configuring upgrading maintaining and monitoring an enterprise F5 load balancer network architecture.
• Extensive experience troubleshooting managing and monitoring the health of Cisco and Juniper routers and switches.
• Extensive experience in Software Define Networks (SDN). Broad understanding of network infrastructure topologies security policies firewalls and the L2/L3 switch and router infrastructure.
• Experience deploying managing and troubleshooting network systems switching and routing protocol standards such as: TCP/IP MPLS OSPF BGP SDN and 802.1x.
• Experience managing and troubleshooting DNS DHCP IPAM and NTP in a large multisite environment.
• Experience with network security including firewall IDS/IPS VPN and vulnerability remediation.
• Experience using network management and analysis tools such as SNMP probes network taps and traffic analyzer.
• Experience with Network Management & Performance platforms such as NetScout IBM NetCool Solarwinds NMS products NetBrain Infovista Clearpass Aruba Arista.
• Experience building configurations using CLI.
• Experience with network security including firewall IDS/IPS VPN and vulnerability remediation.
• Creating and documenting processes and creating work instructions.
• Excellent hardware troubleshooting experience.
• Experience creating scripts to automate routine administration tasks.
• Possess flexibility to operate in a highly dynamic environment while ensuring a high level of operational effectiveness.
• Experience working as a part of a large team and working directly with customers.
• Experience with supporting teleworkers and remote access technologies.
• Strong oral and written communication skills.
• Strong customer service skills.
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team.

Clearance Required

• DoD TS/SCI security clearance required
  

Who Makes It Happen.

At CMIT we firmly believe that our innovative solutions are only as powerful as the teams harnessing them. Our people are more than just contributors they are at the heart of everything we do and every success that we earn. Our employees are offered ample options to design a personalized benefits package that best meets their needs. Options include:

• Medical / Rx
• HSA / FSA
• Dental & Vision
• Life / AD&D
• Long & Short Disability
• Disability Insurance
• Accident Insurance
• Critical Illness
• Hospital Insurance
• Pet Benefits
• Education/Training Program
• 401k Retirement
• Generous Paid Time Off
• Flexible Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Flexible Work Locations
• Alternative Work Schedules

CMIT provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race color religion age sex national origin disability status genetics protected veteran status sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other characteristic protected by federal state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment including recruiting hiring placement promotion termination layoff recall transfer leaves of absence compensation and training.

COVID19 Safety Protocols: To protect the health and safety of its employees and to comply with customer requirements employees in certain positions may be required to be fully vaccinated against COVID19 or subject to facility entry safety protocols (e.g. testing masking physical distancing) subject to the status of the federal contractor mandate and customer site requirements.