Network Engineer

Basic Qualifications: Minimum knowledge, skills, abilities needed. 

• 7 years of experience with designing, configuring, managing, maintaining, and troubleshooting network switching and routing protocols in a large enterprise network (5000+ nodes). 

• 7 years of experience with configuring and managing Load Balancers, switches, routers 

• Minimum 5 years of experience with firewalls particularly Palo Altos.

 • 7 years of experience with Network Monitoring/IPAM (i.e. NetFlow) 

• 7 years of physical communication troubleshooting skills using cabling and signaling analyzer, packet capture and analysis 

• 5 years of experience and knowledge of Cisco IOS and Cisco Nexus Operating systems 

• years of experience with WAN Optimization using Riverbed and trace tools like Wireshark 

• 3 years of experience with a high-level scripting language such as Python or Perl 

• 2 years of experience with Cisco Prime

• Advanced experience with architecting, designing, deploying, and operating network elements such as DNS/IPAM; Firewalls; Network Access Control Solutions (NAC); load balancing; DDoS mitigation, tapping/sniffing infrastructures; and NTP 

• Advanced WAN, LAN, TCP/IP, VPN, Ethernet Skills • Extensive EIGRP, BGP4, RIP, VPLS, MPLS and OSPF Routing Protocol knowledge 

• Active Cisco CCNP (or higher) certification 

• Experience with implementing IPv6 (SLAAC and DHCPv6) 

• Experience with Gigamon • Experience with Dynatrace 

• Experience configuring Zero Trust networks 

• Solid understanding of internetworking: security, routing, switching, SAN and application networking 

• Experience with Microsoft Server and Linux Administration 

• Expertise in the Linux command-line environment. 

• Experience with server hardware to include Dell, HP, or Cisco UCS 

• Experience with virtualization solutions (i.e., VMWare). 

• Experience documenting network information including of all switching and routing equipment, connected IP-addressable devices and cabling interconnects 

• Ability to produce operational documentation using industry best practices in technical writing. • Experience in using MS Visio, Project. 

• Must be able to obtain and maintain a US Public Trust clearance.  '