Sr. Network Engineer (SEAS)

The Senior Network Engineer provides subject matter expertise (SME) mentorship and on-the job training as well as operational support for the technologies (systems applications and services) that make up the customers IT networking enterprise architecture as part of the Networking and Communications Operations and Maintenance (O&M) team. Specifically the Senior Network Engineer will be responsible for a variety of engineering and operational assignments related to the designing deploying and efficient and optimal operation of business critical enterprise and data center network environments across multiple sets of enterprise-level IT systems in support of the customers globally dispersed Remote Office/Branch Office (ROBO) and data center environments.

Responsibilities

• Translate stakeholder and Government requirements into network solutions modifications and support upgrades (networking reconfiguration hardware and software acquisitions installation and testing). Strive to understand the application of current and emerging network software and hardware technology and protocols in order to provide innovative and new ideas to resolve complex engineering challenges.
• Directly support and oversee the Networking teams operations and maintenance (O&M) of deployed operational solutions backed by Cisco Juniper Riverbed and SolarWinds. Serve as the highest internal escalation tier for the Networking O&M team providing advanced troubleshooting support and guidance to rapidly assess and remediate challenges in the networking arena that arise. When issues incidents and /or problems arise drive the situation and oversees the Networking teams troubleshooting and problem resolution including Root Cause Analysis (RCA).
• Ensure the Networking team as a whole produces and maintains documentation of the network systems(s) sub-systems(s) and component(s) in the customers IT networking portfolio including as-built documentation capacity/performance plans as well as all other area of secure system life-cycle planning.
• Work directly with the customers IT Architecture and Engineering (A&E) team to consistently explore investigate research analyze and assess new technologies to modernize and improve upon existing networking solutions.
• Travel approximately 15% annually.

• TS/SCI Clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI Poly
• Associate degree from an accredited University OR Certifications: CompTIA Security ce; or GIAC Security Essentials Certification (GSEC); or Systems Security Certified Practitioner (SSCP)
• Cisco Certified Networks Professional (CCNP) Data Center certified
• 7 or more years of progressive experience successfully leading the employment of network engineering techniques methodologies processes and practices to design engineer implement test secure and deliver a variety of enterprise-grade IT networking solutions (systems applications and/or services) across multi-platform (Microsoft *nix etc.) information systems (LAN MAN WAN etc.)
• 7 or more years of progressive and increasingly complex experience working with enterprise-level Cisco hardware (Catalyst Nexus etc.) operating systems (10S NX-OS ACI etc.) and technologies (Voice Video Routing Switching Security etc.) across enterprise-grade information systems and networks. This shall include a minimum of 5 or more years or experience working with enterprise-level Cisco-based Routing and Switching technologies (ex. BGP EJGRP IACP IISRP OSPP PC QoS STP VPC VRF)
• 5 or more years of demonstrated understanding and hands-on experience in the following networking concepts: network traffic flow analysis network management network topology design network security performance high availability load balancing and fault tolerant architectures
• 5 or more years of experience working with secure encrypted networking devices (i.e. Taclanes and Border Guards) and communication circuits protocols and configurations
• 5 or more years of experience working with network-based security technologies such as Next Generation Firewalls and Access Control Lists (ACLs) to secure network traffic at all supplied layers of the OSI Reference Model
• 5 or more years of experience designing engineering implementing operating and maintaining solutions in secure processing environments which must adhere to U.S. Government Information Assurance and Security standards such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Security Requirement Guides (SRGs) and Security Technical (implementation Guides (STIGs)
• Demonstrated experience leading directing and evaluating task execution and performance exercising latitude and independence of a globally dispersed team to successfully meet team objectives goals and deadlines as expected
• Demonstrated experience performing advanced troubleshooting techniques methodologies processes and practices to quickly identify and assess an issue develop the strategy to resolve the issue implement the resolution and restore the degraded entity to an operational state all while maintaining concern for the original configuration and the overall Information Security (INFOSEC) posture of the environment
• Demonstrated experience monitoring and assessing networking systems and solutions proactively for performance degradation and tuning and optimization opportunities
• Shall meet the Cyber IT/Cybersecurity Workforce (CSWF) Network Operations Specialist (441); Intermediate Level for SECNAV M-5239.2 compliance

• Strongly desired to be CCNP Routing and Switch CCNP Collaboration and CCNP Security Certified
• Technical certificates in other enterprise-level technologies such as Juniper and Riverbed are also a plus
• Strong understanding of Cisco data center networking solutions technologies and best practices to support in the engineering design implementation and management of modern data center infrastructure
• Strong understanding of Cisco local and wide area networking (LAN/WAN) solutions technologies and best practices to support in the engineering design implementation and management of Remote Office/Remote Branch networking requirements as well as smaller purpose-built information systems
• Strong understanding of Cisco networking security solutions technologies and best practices to support the secure implementation and sustainment of enterprise network devices in line with information assurance (IA) and security (INFOSEC) compliance governance and requirement
• Personal experience working with Cisco Adaptive Security Appliances (ASA) and like products is a plus
• Demonstrated experience in networking engineering enterprise solutions to directly support a variety of high availability fault tolerant disaster recovery and continuity of operations (COOP) scenarios
• Demonstrated experience operating and maintaining the Riverbed Steelhead appliance product line to provide WAN Optimization and Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) throughout a globally dispersed WAN
• Demonstrated experience operating and maintaining Juniper Firewalls to include device installation setup and configuration testing and sustainment of firewall proxy and VPN rules
• Demonstrated experience operating tuning and troubleshooting Ciscos Unified Communications Manager (CUCM) and TelePresence Management Suite (TMS) and TelePresence Video Communication Server (VCS) to support enterprise collaboration (i.e. Voice and Video) services across a WAN
• Demonstrated experience working with software-based configuration management solutions capable of documenting storing and on-demand deployment of pre-generated reviewed and approved network device configurations such as SolarWinds Network Configuration Manager (NCM)
• Demonstrated experience providing mentorship and On the Job Training (OJT) to junior and/or lesser experienced team members
• Demonstrated experience working with advanced Cisco Data Center technologies such as the Data Center Network Manager (DCNM) and/or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) to support Software Defined Networking (SDN) Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) and Secure Multi-Tenancy enterprise solutions