Sr. Network Administrator

Overview

Position Description
CGI Federal is looking for a Sr. Network Administrator to help support a program we are working on for the Army's PL ALTESS contract. PL ALTESS, or Product Lead for Acquisition, Logistics, and Technology Enterprise Systems and Services, is a key U.S. Army organization providing IT services and support to the Army and Department of Defense. As a managed service provider, ALTESS delivers infrastructure, platform, and application services across data centers and commercial clouds.

It plays a crucial role in modernizing IT systems by migrating them to the cloud and managing mission-critical applications to ensure Army readiness. ALTESS oversees IT service delivery across various hosting locations, aligning with Department of Defense digital transformation strategies as part of PEO Enterprise.

This position is located in Radford, VA.

This position is for a Senior Network Administrator in a mixed and growing environment currently supporting functional teams and customers that utilize MS Windows Server 2019/2022, MS SQL 2019, MS Windows 11, VMWare 7.x, OEL 8x-9x, and Oracle operating systems. The role will work with the existing team members who are responsible for designing and supporting multiple complex networks in different locations.

The Senior Network Administrator will help lead strategies to manage, maintain, deploy, troubleshoot and support networks for multiple customer environments. The role will lead efforts to plan, execute and implement new network implementations. Responsibilities include creating and maintaining team technical instructions, operating procedures, and policies as needed. The position requires monitoring and tuning system and network performance, ongoing operation of the network, hardening of the network, and reporting of the overall security and operational status.

The role will also recommend improvements to the enterprise and manage new software/hardware integrations when required, while providing utilization reports using existing tools to identify problems and corrective actions. This position provides support toward the lifecycle of a mixed environment of vendor equipment in the datacenter, including firmware version control and periodic preventive maintenance. The role will also need to be able to recommend, demonstrate, and implement technologies to help expand, upgrade, and increase efficiency in the current environment.

The position requires excellent communication and team skills.

• Required Qualifications:
  
  CompTIA Security+.
• Computing Environment (CE) Certification (i.e., MCSE, Server+, CCNA, Red Hat, Palo, etc.) – can be waived for 30 days after project join date.
• DOD Secret Security Clearance.
• Experience in Computer Science or IT.
• Three or more years' experience designing, implementing, documenting, and maintaining complex networking solutions.
• Three or more years' experience configuring, updating, maintaining, administering, and migrating Palo Alto Firewalls.
• Three or more years' experience with Network Management, Analysis, and troubleshooting tools such as Solar Winds, Cisco Prime, Palo Alto Panorama, Men and Mice, etc.
• Five or more years' experience configuring, updating, maintaining, and administering the following Cisco technologies:
  Cisco Nexus (9K, 7K, 5K, and 2K), Cisco Catalyst switches, Cisco Aggregation Services Router (ASR) and Integrated Services Router (ISR) routers, and Cisco Firepower.
• Three years' experience or working knowledge of Software-Defined Networking.

• Three or more years' experience creating, maintaining, following Standard Operating Procedures for repeatable processes, disaster recovery, and common problem resolution.
• Strong interpersonal skills and willingness to be a team player.

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent years of experience.
• Three or more years' experience in automation and scripting with Python, Pearl, TCL, or Ansible.
• Three or more years' experience supporting Cybersecurity patch management and Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG),…