Systems Engineer - Level III

Systems Engineer – Level III

Analyzes functional business requirements and design specifications for functional activities. Should provide identification/fixing for the problems within existing systems design/implementation of new systems, enhances the existing systems and participates in analysis, design and new construction of next generation IT systems. Responsible for understanding the needs of the customers and the realities of commercially available IT products, and creating requirements that will allow implementation by the architecture and engineering team and COTS products. Must possess experience of system engineering in one or more areas including telecommunications concepts, computer languages, operating systems, database/DBMS and middleware.

Education & Experience Levels

Level - Knowledge/Skill Description - Minimum Education - and/or - Minimum Experience

III - Provides technical/management leadership on major tasks or technology assignments. Establishes goals and plans that meet project objectives. Has domain and expert technical knowledge. Directs and controls activities for a client, having overall responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing to ensure that technical requirements are met. Interactions involve client negotiations and interfacing with senior management. Decision-making and domain knowledge may have a critical impact on overall project implementation. May supervise others. - Master's Degree or higher - and/or - >15 years

Background:

Created after 9-11-2001, the Department of Homeland Security consolidated numerous agencies' data centers for central management. CSRA plays a key role in the Department's IT integration strategy through its Data Center-1 program. CSRA's DC-1 program is committed to delivering an efficient, responsive, and mature data center operation through excellence in service delivery, performance, and continual service improvement.

Essential Job Function:

• Develops and oversees the adherence to maintenance and performance standards of data, voice or video network hardware and systems.
• Troubleshoots highly complex data, voice or video network and hardware problems; researches and analyzes significant, complex network problems that require evaluation of intangibles, such as downstream effects on client satisfaction; assesses and evaluates current and future systems.
• Provides expert technical support and guidance on highly complex design issues to customers and less experienced personnel. Investigates and resolves matters of significance.
• Researches and analyzes data or voice networking technologies to remain pro-active and current in the industry. Makes recommendations for future direction.
• Analyzes highly complex data, voice or video network documentation and communicates to senior management regarding the current operational status of networks.
• Prepares complex proposal documentation and information to meet customer requirements. Determines methods and procedures to be implemented and used on the most complex new technologies to enhance performance. Determines approach for customer, based on assessment of customer needs.
• Researches and analyzes data or voice networking technologies to remain pro-active and current in the industry. Makes recommendations for future direction.
• Analyzes highly complex data, voice or video network documentation and communicates to senior management regarding the current operational status of networks.
• Prepares complex consultation, support and guidance to organizations and clients. Develops and conducts training as needed.
• Performs cost analyses and vendor comparisons for large-scale projects to ensure cost-effective and efficient operations, and measures feasibility of various approaches. Ensures adherence to model created and overall budgetary guidelines. Makes complex investment recommendations to management and customers based on results of independent assessment of current and future data, voice or video network performance, stability, and network management issues.

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, management information systems, or related field preferred
• Nine or more years of experience in networks, LAN/WAN or management information systems
• Experience working with multiple technical platforms (e.g.; mainframe, two-tiered client-server, three-tiered client-server) and multiple network systems (e.g.; Novell, Windows NT, etc.)
• Experience working with network systems and networking principles, data, voice or video
• Experience working with network software and hardware, data, voice or video • Experience working with proprietary software and hardware
• Possess Department of Defense (DoD) security access and/or security clearance Other Qualifications
• Skilled in time, priority and task management
• Strong network performance modeling and benchmarking skills
• Strong communication skills to interact with team members, management, customers and support personnel
• Interpersonal skills to interact with customers and team members
• Strong leadership skills to oversee project team
• Strong ability to analyze and solve complex problems using analytical and creative problem solving skills for design, creation and testing of networks
• Active in pursuing learning opportunities
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Ability to anticipate problems, resolve ambiguity and take decisive action
• Ability to convey a strong presence, professional image, and deal confidently with highly complex technical problems
• Requires at least 1 to 2 years of recent hands on experience in the following areas:
• Cisco switches
• Load balancer
• WAN optimization(Riverbed)
• Network monitoring tool

Three Must to Have Skills:

• Must have knowledge in network and switching protocols
• Must be strong in firewalls and firewall rule contexts
• Must have strong knowledge in Nexus Operating System (NX-OS)

Three Nice to Have Skills:

• Knowledge on F5 Load Balancers
• Knowledge on WAN Optimization
• Knowledge on VxLAN and/or Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) - Server Driven Networks (SDN) Certification Required CCNP