Network Data Center Technician

Edgewater Federal Solutions is seeking a Network Data Center Technician to support a major national laboratory.

Provide comprehensive support across all dimensions of the Data Center environment. In this role, you will deliver Level I and/or Level II technical support to server technicians, network administrators, and support personnel for various systems, including cabling, power management, space planning, and cooling management in a large and complex Data Center setting.

• Troubleshoot complex problems that span multiple subsystems and systems, requiring in-depth knowledge of the sophisticated Data Center environment.
• Have a strong background in IT and High-Performance Computing (HPC) infrastructure, with a solid understanding of cooling, heat transfer, fluid mechanics, and chemical analysis for both open and closed-loop water systems.
• Collaborative on data center consolidation efforts, engaging with customers to evaluate, design, and plan consolidation activities as needed.
• Develop innovative solutions to significant and unusual problems, applying new principles, concepts, and practices to address complex or strategic issues.
• Be a resource to executive management providing analysis of information, trends, and goals at a corporate level, contributing to the overall success and efficiency of the Data Center operations.

• Requires AS in relevant discipline plus a minimum of 2 years, or more, of directly related experience that demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and ability to perform the duties.
• Related experience may be substituted for relevant education and vice versa.
• Ability to obtain & maintain a U.S. Dept. of Energy Clearance
• U.S. Citizenship is required.

Required Skills:

• Experience working in mission‑critical production environments with change control, incident response, and structured troubleshooting.
• Ability to work safely and effectively in live data center spaces (DCFIT coordination, raised floor environments, cabling standards).
• Strong understanding of L2/L3 networking fundamentals: VLANs, STP, LACP, static routing, OSPF, BGP, ACLs, QoS.
• Experience configuring and supporting major network vendors (any of):
  Cisco, Arista, Juniper, Mellanox/NVIDIA Networking.
• Familiarity with multipath topologies, spine‑leaf architectures, and high‑bandwidth fabrics.
• Understanding of basic firewall and segmentation concepts (paths, zones, NAT, routing symmetry).
• Familiarity with enterprise cabling best practices: fiber types (LR/SR/ER), transceiver selection, rack elevation awareness.
• Working knowledge of monitoring and telemetry:
  Cloud Vision, Netropy/Apposite tools, Nagios/Prometheus/Grafana, or similar.
• Ability to follow SOPs/MOPs, support planned change windows, and adhere to structured rollback/validation procedures.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting abilities, with a demonstrated ability to drive issues to resolution during outages.
• Clear verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to participate in on‑call rotations and support after‑hours change windows if needed.

Desired

Skills:

• Advanced Network Expertise
• Hands‑on experience with Arista EOS, Cisco NX‑OS, Juniper JunOS, or Mellanox/NVIDIA platforms supporting 40/100/400
  
  Gbps networks.
• Experience with BGP tuning, traffic‑engineering policies, ECMP management, asymmetric‑routing detection, and complex route‑map design.
• Familiarity with EVPN/VXLAN, modern DC underlays, and high‑availability routing gateway designs (HA router pairs, blue/green cutovers).
• Experience troubleshooting firewall pathing issues, zone interactions, NAT
  64/NAT policy behavior, and segmentation used for HPC.
• Exposure to HPC networks and interconnects:
• RDMA, RoCE, basic Infini Band concepts (subnet managers, fabric behavior).
• Understanding of…