Principal Network Engineer III

Requisition #: 1588

Job Title: Principal Network Engineer III

Location: Huntsville, AL, Pocatello, , Clarksburg, WV

Clearance Level: TS with the ability to obtain an SCI and CI Polygraph

Required Certification: Cisco CCNA with Cisco CCNP or similar preferred

The contractor shall be responsible for design, deployment, testing, certification, patching, and addressing interoperability issues for all features, components and application dependencies including switches, firewalls, load balancers, software defined networking, private cloud requirements, etc.

• Serve as the advanced matter expert for all data center network environments.
• Create and maintain network infrastructure for both bare‑metal and virtual machines with appropriate LAN, WAN, VLAN, SDN, firewall and load balancer configurations using OEM and third‑party tools including NSX.
• Provision and configure required networking for servers and applications.
• Evaluate, improve, and maintain information security throughout the data center network infrastructure.
• Monitor and correct critical network issues, create recovery processes for failures and performance bottlenecks; provide real‑time alerts and implement proactive solutions.
• Install, configure, test, and maintain system management tools for all data center network components.
• Ensure highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability.
• Monitor and test application performance for bottlenecks; identify solutions and work with developers to implement fixes.
• Maintain security, backup, and redundancy strategies.
• Write and maintain custom scripts to increase system efficiency and reduce human intervention time.
• Participate in design of information and operational support systems, provide 4th level support, and liaise with vendors and IT personnel for problem resolution.
• Maintain technical documentation and inventory/patch level data on a monthly interval.
• Provide real‑time alerts and dashboard information on network performance and availability.
• Document system configurations including passwords, access controls, version and revision numbers, patch levels, hostnames, IP addresses, processor counts, memory, and license keys.
• Train and assist government staff in using technology.
• Provide real‑time reporting of provisioned and non‑provisioned resources, including performance metrics for availability and trends.

Current TS with ability to obtain SCI and CI Polygraph to meet contract requirements.

• Minimum six (6) years of experience in designing, implementing, and supporting network infrastructure within and between data centers.
• Bachelor's degree preferred.
• Cisco ACI experience preferred.

• Environmental:
  Office & Data Center.
• Strength Demands:
  Occasionally lift 50+ lbs in teams.
• Physical Requirements:
  
  Sit, stand.

We are an equal opportunity employer. Veterans, individuals with disabilities, and protected veterans are encouraged to apply.

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