Senior Network Engineer Security Clearance

Position: Senior Network Engineer with Security Clearance
Silo Smashers is seeking a highly experienced Senior Network Engineer to join its growing contract supporting a federal government agency. The government customer requires the expertise of an experienced Senior Network Engineer to support its multiple networking initiatives across all areas of the division. Specifically, the government customer is looking for expertise to provide network engineering and architectural-level services for operations, maintenance, network infrastructure, capacity management, reporting and IT enhancements for its systems.

Furthermore, this government agency requires expertise related to planning and implementing telecommunications and information technology infrastructures; network administration which includes network access and security;
Zero Trust; IT disaster recovery planning and execution; IT inventory control; audio, video, and web conferencing; wireless services; and voice (VoIP) and data services. The Senior Network Engineer is a matrixed role supporting multiple projects and is expected to have the wherewithal to prioritize, over-communicate, plan and tightly coordinate with a variety of stakeholders, while driving day-to-day work to completion.

The Senior Network Engineer will also be responsible for traveling to field sites as needed in support of ongoing initiatives.

ROLE RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Critical thinking, analytical thinking, deep understanding of Cisco routing/ switching, strong ability to  correct, and isolate, and troubleshoot network issues.

• Proven experience with designing network topology, protocols. Security, and connectivity, based on government customer business and technical requirements.

• Deep understanding of Cisco routing and switching, specifically with Cisco ISE, Cisco DNA Center,
• Ability to plan for new technology deployments (e.g. full solutioning, planning, migration, replacement of existing technology, impact to users, etc.)

• Proven experience with experience with virtual private networks (VPNs) remote access solutions and internal tunneling technologies, such as Cisco Any Connect for remote access and GRE Tunneling/DMVPNS for the internal tunneling technologies

• Prior success with regards to enhancing an existing network monitoring capability or implementing a new technology.

• Experience with voice over Internet Protocol (IP and configuring/troubleshooting enterprise routing designs.

• Experience configuring and analyzing Cisco Firepower IDS/IPS and firewalls using FMC.

• Experience supporting physical infrastructure such as racking, installation, configuration, and cabling.

• Tracking network uptime on both the backbone and administrative networks and ability to execute detailed network assessments and audits to identify existing infrastructure limitations, potential bottlenecks, and areas of improvement.

• Experience with Virtual Switching Architecture such as VRF and VSS to support secure multi-tenant design within DMZ based virtual enclave.

• Proven success with implementing or upgrading enterprise wireless solutions such as Cisco WLC &
• Design, deploy and manage IEEE 802.1x network authentication, and proxy services.

• Plan and coordinate non-emergency outages affecting service areas to include, but not limited to: creating timely notification of outages; maintaining physical security requirements; and maintaining both physical and logical drawings of the processors, peripheral equipment, and their connectivity.

• Provide network and system infrastructure reports generated to show uptime, circuit link/CPU utilization, threshold alarms, capacity of all network and system elements.

• Provide technical leadership and guidance to technical team, ensuring the successful completion of network implementation projects.

• Provides high level network troubleshooting, testing and updating standard code versions and device templates as well as remediating security findings. Supports migration of existing cloud access point applications. Identifies resources required for network designs, including upgrades, expansions, and enhancements (building, core, and Data Center).

• Configures and installs network hardware and software to meet…