Principal Systems Engineer III (Network)

Please ensure you read the below overview and requirements for this employment opportunity completely.

The candidate shall 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.

Position requirements and duties of the Principal Systems Engineer III (Network) :

• The candidate shall design, implementation and ongoing support of the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
• The candidate shall serve as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
• The candidate shall 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.
• The candidate shall provision / configure the required networking for servers and applications.
• The candidate shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• The candidate shall 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.

• The candidate shall install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• The candidate shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• The candidate shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes.
• The candidate shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• The candidate shall 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).
• The candidate shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems.
• The candidate shall provide 4th level support.
• The candidate shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution.
• The candidate shall 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.
• The candidate shall provide real time alerts and dashboard information on network performance and availability.
• The candidate shall document system configurations to include passwords, access controls, version number, and revision numbers, patch levels, and inventory to include hostnames, TCP / IP addresses, number of processors, and number of cores, memory, and license keys.
• The candidate shall continually transition knowledge to the Government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• The candidate shall provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned resources such as bandwidth utilized to include performance metrics for availability, performance, and trends.

Requirements :

• Must have a current Top-Secret Clearance with the capability of obtaining SCI / CI-Poly to meet contract requirement.
• Individuals must have a minimum of Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA), DevNet Associate, or equivalent network vendor associate level certification.
• Six years of experience.
• Experience with Application-Centric Infrastructure (ACI), Tetration, Multi-Site-Orchestrator (MSO), Network Assurance Engine (NAE), Network Services Orchestrator (NSO), and Nexus Insights.

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