Senior Network Engineer/Expert

Network Engineer 

Praxis recently is a prime contract performing High Performance Computing (HPC) support for a restricted customer and its select mission partners. This contract provides scientific computing support, advanced computing capabilities, and interfacing IT infrastructures committed to enabling high fidelity, advanced analytics by delivering the highest quality technical capabilities and engineering support to its customers. The infrastructure includes state of the art hardware, software, and networks. The program supports an advanced computing infrastructure including supercomputing clusters, GPUs, high-speed storage, and high speed networking enabling high fidelity, advanced computing, data science, AI/ML and modeling. This environment provides unprecedented access to computational power and analytic throughput to solve the government’s most challenging computational and scientific problems. 

What You Will Be Doing: 

The Network Engineer provides administration & engineering support for HPC backbone and client facing networks. The Network Engineer works cross functionally with other HPC disciplines to plan and implement infrastructure advancements and improvements to accelerate the capabilities deliver an environment to drive innovation. The positions works with vendors to determine network hardware acquisitions for inclusion in the technical roadmap and deliver results to the users.   

The work includes such tasks as the daily operations of network administrative, development & testing of networks; planning and documenting network options for advancing the environment; maintenance of network configurations; installation & troubleshooting of multiple peripherals and HPC components on networks in standard & tailored environments. The Network Engineer manages INFOSEC & COMSEC security requirements for the network add to the complexity of these positions. Positions at this level are responsible for performing moderately complex network designs; performing upgrades to limited segments of the network, & performing routine network operations O&M.   

What You Need: 

•   Architecting, planning, installing, configuring, supporting, verifying network availability, and maintaining the user facing and service backbone networks and associated technologies (Software Defined Networking, Security Policy Enforcement, Network virtualization, Network automation, etc.). 

•   Performing tasks related to network provisioning and management. 

•   Troubleshooting and implementing solutions related to technical network issue. 

•   Familiarity with industry standard tools to perform network operations management. 

•   Experience with virtualization, VMWare and Citrix extremely desired. 

•   Strength in Windows and/or Linux operating systems to support the larger systems administration and architecture teams. 

•   Evaluating, maintaining and recommending solutions to optimize the networks. 

•   Proposing efficient and resilient and reliable data replication to maintain continuity of operations. 

•   Monitoring performance of networks maintain and enhance peak performance to compute and storage fabrics. 

•   Ensure the network is secure (firewalls, intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, malware prevention, endpoint and network security, compliance monitoring). 

•   The Network Engineer at least a relevant B.S. with five years of professional experience and Cisco/Security certifications, or relevant Certifications with nine years of professional experience without a degree. 

•   Hands on experience with Cisco products required - switches, ISE security servers, DNA Center, Data, and Data Center Network Manager (DCMN). 

•   Hands on Experience with InfiniBand and Mellanox strongly desired.  

Clearance:
Active TS/SCI with an appropriate polygraph is required to be considered for this role  

Who are we?
Praxis Engineering* was founded in 2002 and is headquartered in Annapolis Junction MD - with growing offices in Chantilly VA and Aberdeen MD. 

Praxis Engineering is a consulting, product, and solutions firm dedicated to the practical application of software and system engineering technologies to solve complex problems. 

With over 300 employees supporting more than 50 contracts, Praxis brings together world class engineers with proven engineering best practices, domain expertise, commercial technologies and proven agile management approaches to create high value solutions aimed at helping our customers meet their most critical business and mission objectives.   

*Praxis Engineering is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics IT.

Why Praxis? 
We are focused on continual learning and evolution. We don’t do things because “that’s the way we’ve always done things”; we listen to our employees and adapt to the changing marketplace.   We look at the big picture and encourage our engineers to get training and certifications in emerging technologies that will help shape our customer’s mission.  We've been profitable year after year.  We're always on the lookout for great engineers to join the team and we recognize that our employees are the heart and soul of what we do.   We focus on recruiting talented people, treating them right, and then allowing them to do what they do best.  No red tape. No micromanagement.  Smart people want to work with smart people, and we love people who are passionate about what they do, and finding ways to do it better. 

And then there is the... 

Benefits 

• Attractive total compensation package to include competitive salary and medical benefits with an option for FREE employee HSA medical plan!
• Office perks such as free soft drinks and snacks (both healthy and not-so-healthy)
• Praxis swag (annual gift certificate to purchase top brand Praxis apparel)
• 401k contribution/match: combination of profit share/contribution (3.5%) and employer match (up to 4.5%) for a total of 8%.
• Annual bonus plan
• 4 weeks Paid Time Off 10 holidays comp time eligibility. (30 days of leave to start!)
  • We reward longevity! On your 5th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 5 weeks of PTO. Making it 35 days of leave altogether!
  • On your 10th work anniversary – you will receive an additional week of PTO to 6 weeks of PTO. Making it 40 days of leave altogether!
  • At any time, your unused PTO can be traded in for $$$!
• Carryover a max of 380hours of leave from year to year. You can choose to have a sabbatical one year or trade in your unused PTO for something nice!
• Student loan repayment Assistance – COMINGSOON! 
• Training is a priority! Take advantage of our endless in-house training opportunities - or seek out vendor offered (paid) training opportunities like conferences, certification courses and seminars. 
  • Conferences (recently attended by Praxis employees): AWS Summit, IoT World, Black Hat and DefCon.
  • Training & Certifications: Splunk, AWS, Big Data/Cloudera, VMWare, Scrum Master...the list of certifications goes on and on!
  • Praxis University: Cyber Research, Data Analytics, IoT, AWS and RedHat course offerings and hands-on training.
• We truly believe the right work-life balance can exist, and it's here at Praxis. Our work is extremely important, but your job is just a part of who you are. When you enjoy your life outside of our walls, you're at your best the next time you walk through our doors. We do all we can to assure that happens every day.

Praxis Engineering provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, or any other protected class.