Sr. Network Architect/Engineer

Network Engineering Position

Working with an enterprise network architecture and engineering team supporting our Federal customer, the Network Engineering supports projects to upgrade, modernize and support the migration of a Wide Area Network (WAN) communications infrastructure supporting over 1200 field sites and multiple Program Directorates.

Eligibility/Clearance Requirements: Must be a U.S. Citizen

Clearance Preference:

• CBP Full BI - 1st priority

• Any DHS badge + DoD Top Secret or Secret - 2nd choice

• DoD Secret or Top Secret + willingness to get CBP clearance - 3rd choice (it can take 45 days to 6 months to obtain a CBP clearance – work can only begin once the clearance is fully adjudicated)

Certifications/Skillsets: CCNP, CCIE, Cloud Design and Migration

Position Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interface with customers to collect and clarify requirements

• Manage network communications testing, installation, and support for the MAN/WAN system

• Mentor and provide guidance to other networking team members

• Identify and diagnose problems affecting network performance using software and hardware tools

• Provide recommendations to enhance and improve network performance

• Troubleshoot network infrastructure systems as needed

• Perform system engineering design, integration, and implementation tasks and activities, including coordination of personnel, hardware, software, budget, facilities, and/or equipment

• Interface with vendors when necessary during outages or periods of degraded system performance

• Evaluate, design, document, install, implement, test, perform problem isolation and resolution, monitor, tune, and set standards.

• Provides client consulting and training on the interfacing and use of the network facilities.

• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new computer network equipment and technologies.

• Utilizes monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to trouble shoot and isolate problems, gauge network performance, and trace data and protocol activity.

• Provides internal consulting, technical guidance, information and support to application developers, computer operations, company management and departmental clients. Assists in internal training programs.

• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Provide for Tier IV escalation support of CBP's Enterprise Wide Area Network Infrastructure

• Configure Cisco network routers, switches and wireless controllers for LAN/WAN connectivity

• Develop network designs and comprehensive site analysis

• Cisco Firewall design and configuration

• Root Cause Analysis support

• Troubleshoot, diagnose, investigate and resolve issues with network connectivity and latency

• Troubleshoot multiple MPLS networks in a highly secure environment

Knowledge, Skills & Experience:

At least 10 years of network engineering experience of Medium to Large WAN network experience: functions and concepts of a wide area network, designing LAN/WAN's and network engineering:

• Experience with Cisco routing/switching configuration and troubleshooting to the CCNP level, ASRs, Generation 2, and 1900-7600 routers, Cisco NGFWs, and F5 Load Balancers

• IP experience (to include sub-netting and routing), IPV4/IPV6

• Riverbed WAN Optimization

• Fusion Center

• Cisco Office Extend

• BGP experience required

• EIGRP and OSPF routing

• Cisco DMVPN concepts

• Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)

• Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)

• Adept in using troubleshooting and performance management tools such as Cisco Prime, Riverbed SteelCentral, NetScout, Gigamon, Cisco Prime, etc.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Competencies:

• Cisco ACI experience

• Deep packet capture and analysis experience

• Data Center Migration experience

• Amazon Web Services (AWS) CSR configuration

• Microsoft Azure/Office 365

• End to end application mapping

• Software Defined Networks

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, IT Systems, or other related discipline. Education requirement may be substituted with an additional 4 years of relevant experience.