Network Engineer

Open Systems Technologies Corporation is looking for an experienced Network Engineer to work on a long term contract supporting the FBI. The Network Engineer 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.

Responsibilities

• The Network Engineer shall design, implementation and ongoing support of the Networking Infrastructure within and between data centers.
• The Network Engineer shall serves as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
• The Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer shall provision/configure the required networking for servers and applications.
• The Network Engineer shall evaluate, improve, and maintain the information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• The Network Engineer shall monitor and correct critical 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 Network Engineer shall install, configure, test and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• The Network Engineer shall proactively ensure the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• The Network Engineer shall monitor and test application performance for potential bottlenecks, identify possible solutions, and work with developers to implement those fixes
• The Network Engineer shall maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies
• The Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer shall participate in the design of information and operational support systems
• The Network Engineer shall provide 4th level support
• The Network Engineer shall liaise with vendors and other IT personnel for problem resolution
• The Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer shall provide real time alerts and dashboard information on network performance and availability.
• The Network Engineer 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 Network Engineer shall continually transition knowledge to the government staff through training and assistance on how to use the technology using industry best practices.
• The Network Engineer shall provide real-time reporting of provisioned and non-provisioned resources such as bandwidth utilized to include performance metrics for availability, performance and trends.

Required Skills:

• Clearance: Top Secret willing to sit for the CI Poly
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, and 6 years of experience required
• CCNA or higher certification required within 6 months of hire

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