Network Engineer (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

Network Engineer

The Network Engineer will be responsible for maintaining the design and the integrity of the customer's complex internal network, including customer-facing hosted and cloud environments. They will provide expert technical assistance to team members with high-level system and networking request. They will also secure and manage network infrastructures to protect productivity, mitigate threats, and reduce costs. This role will be responsible for designing, implementation and testing complex infrastructure in support of our customer needs.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related technical discipline, or the equivalent combination of education, technical training, or work/military experience
• Minimum eight (8) years of relevant experience (additional experience may be substituted for a degree) with architecting and designing IP networks and associated technologies

Required Knowledge/Skills:

• In-depth understanding of networking to include routing, switching, network monitoring and management
• Strong troubleshooting skills specific to network connectivity, security, and ability to effectively work in cross functional teams as needed to resolve issues
• Expert for SDN engagements built around Cisco ACI
• Background in Cisco ACI design, planning, implementation, and testing, based on a multi data center configurations
• Good team and collaboration skills
• Ability to research and find new and innovative technologies to enhance the existing network
• Define network strategy with respect to technology domain standards and design goals
• Provide technical design and architectural leadership, including documenting and diagramming the logical, physical and process views
• Experience analyzing network traffic, using a variety of network tools to assess security-related events to assist in rapid identification and isolation of issues during incidents and outages
• Experience in designing, configuring, implementing, and troubleshooting these various network technologies and protocols
• Experience designing, deploying, and maintaining boundary security solutions and exposure to enterprise network architecture
• Good knowledge and hands-on experience with VXLAN/EVPN

Key Responsibilities:

• Installation and maintenance of network equipment
• Troubleshooting and resolution of network issues
• Design network architectures based on customer requirements and industry best practices
• Development of unique solutions that will meet customer requirements and industry best practices
• Collaborate effectively with other IT disciplines (e.g., Storage, Platform, Application) to troubleshoot and resolve complex problems
• Develop and maintain configurations plans for Cisco ACI design, planning, implementation, and testing, based on a multi data center configurations
• Create architectural design solutions and successfully present them to client stakeholders
• Work with infrastructure engineers to identify new products and solutions
• Document maintenance for all computer systems and network infrastructure
• Maintain systems and documentation as needed for audits and compliance
• Communications with customers: keeping them informed of incident progress, notifying of impending changes, or coordinated outages
• Be available for other engineers and coach them to resolution
• Participate in 24x7 on call and assist in resolving issues outside normal business hours

The likely salary range for this position is $198,050 - $267,950. This is not, however, a guarantee of compensation or salary. Rather, salary will be set based on experience, geographic location and possibly contractual requirements and could fall outside of this range.

Scheduled Weekly Hours: 40

Travel Required: None

Telecommuting Options: Onsite

Work Location: USA VA McLean

Additional Work Locations: USA VA Warrenton

Total Rewards at GDIT: Our benefits package for all US-based employees includes a variety of medical plan options, some with Health Savings Accounts, dental plan options, a vision plan, and a 401(k) plan offering the ability to contribute both pre and post-tax dollars up to the IRS annual limits and receive a company match. To encourage work/life balance, GDIT offers employees full flex work weeks where possible and a variety of paid time off plans, including vacation, sick and personal time, holidays, paid parental, military, bereavement and jury duty leave. To ensure our employees are able to protect their income, other offerings such as short and long-term disability benefits, life, accidental death and dismemberment, personal accident, critical illness and business travel and accident insurance are provided or available. We regularly review our Total Rewards package to ensure our offerings are competitive and reflect what our employees have told us they value most.

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