Secret Sr. Network Engineer

Senior Network EngineerRequired Skills & Experience: Active Secret Clearance, 5+ years of experience with hands-on enterprise network experience, professional certification (e.g., CCNP, CCDP), installing, configuring, and troubleshooting various network architectures, knowledge of the inner workings of the major network routing protocols, including dynamic routing, experience with a variety of firewalls, solid background in network administration and architecture, knowledge of building, developing, and maintaining SD-WAN environments, familiarity with access control models and network security, experience with network diagnostic, monitoring, and analysis tools, solid understanding of network operating systems (Aruba, Juniper, Cisco), solid understanding of VPN, sharp troubleshooting skills, terminating fiber and network cables, ability to work independently, designing, writing, and updating both system documentation and network diagrams.Job Description: We are looking for an experienced Senior Network Engineer. This position will be on-site in Merrifield, VA. Key Responsibilities include:Providing Tier 3 support and engineering expertise for the design, testing, and implementation of the Next Generation Network across all Government offices.Installing, configuring, and troubleshooting diverse network architectures and devices; managing and maintaining SD-WAN, DMVPN, Layer 2/3, and wireless networks; and implementing network security measures, including access control models and firewalls.Providing operational support for data centers, managing network applications on client workstations, optimizing VPN and network performance, implementing server load balancing and WAN optimization, and securing network access.Administering network (Cisco ACI), compute (Cisco UCS), and virtualization (VMware, UCS Director) environments, performing network diagnostics and analysis, troubleshooting production outages with service providers, terminating fiber and network cables, and independently designing, writing, and updating system documentation and network diagrams.