What are the responsibilities and job description for the Principal Network Engineer position at GCyber?
GCyber is hiring a Principal Network Engineer to support Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management – Next Gen) contract at the Pentagon.
Due to the Nature of this role, the employee must report full time onsite in Arlington, VA.
As the Principal Network Engineer, you will:
Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
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Due to the Nature of this role, the employee must report full time onsite in Arlington, VA.
As the Principal Network Engineer, you will:
- Provide architecture/engineering expertise for network implementations, cloud environment integrations, project designs, and standards development, as well as onboarding new tenants
- Provide administration/support for intelligent DNS routing between enterprise locations/data centers, as well as plan and implement upgrades (includes installation of new equipment)
- Implement approved authentication and certificate management controls
- Use caching (static html content) for the enterprise infrastructure environment (hardware, software, and configuration components) and supported tenants
- Support deployment options
- Configure self IPs, port lockdown, and network routes
- Configure remote logging to Splunk
- Adhere to change management processes and procedures
- Troubleshoot, configure, upgrade, maintain, and monitor the load balancer network architecture (performance, configurations, traffic flow, application monitoring, CPU capacity/utilization)
- Analyze network alarms and identify sources
- Coordinate with on-site support personnel while troubleshooting
- Use enterprise service management tools to initiate, respond, and track service requests
- Create reports and analyze performance metrics
- Develop processes/procedures and related engineering documentation for troubleshooting and quickly identifying issues
- Perform reach back to OEM Vendors to de-conflict operational issues with known operating system bugs and security alerts
- Partner with the information security personnel to assess potential exposure to vulnerabilities, identify mitigation plans, and ensure compliance with enterprise security baselines and standards
- Evaluate modern technologies to optimize network efficiency and review/provide recommendations to improve the network
- Inform management in a clear, concise, and timely manner of any customer or technical issues
- Be responsive and decisive on adjusting architecture as customer requirements and technology evolves
Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
- Active DoD Top Secret Clearance
- BS Degree in Information Systems, Engineering of equivalent; Master’s degree preferred
- Must have a current IAT II level certification
- On of the following network certifications
- Brocade
- Cisco (CCNA/CCNP)
- Juniper (JNCIA/JNCIS/JNCIP)
- Aruba
- 8 years primary role operating, troubleshooting, installing network routers and switches
- 5 years primary role directly designing, architecting routed and switched networks up to and including enterprise sized networking solutions.
- 2 years as senior or lead engineer in planning, designing, and building software defined networks.
- Demonstrated experience is a DoD environment
- Configuring and installing carious network devices and services.
- Monitoring network performance and resource utilization, trending, capacity planning
- Use of current and emergent network design principles and protocols
- Experience with network virtualization technologies
- Experience with multi-tenant network architectures
- Familiarity with a width variety network routing and switching equipment devices from multiple vendors
- Scripting languages such as Pearl, Python, coding for network threshold event.
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