Role - Sr. Network Engineer

Rate - $62-65/hr on C2C

Work Auth - USC or GC

Hybrid Schedule 2 days onsite Washington, DC.

Client - USAC

JOB DESCRIPTION

The position's essential duties include the following:

1. Build new infrastructure (data center, wireless and wired network, data, load balancing, voice, telephony, wiring and UPS) including design, planning, risk assessment, implementation, and documentation. Follow procedures, change management best practices, and ensure availability and maintenance of disaster recovery stance. Projects will include those driven by Systems Operations, and those driven by other IT, and business groups - 50%

2. Maintain network and systems by managing product and capabilities roadmaps, establishing maintenance procedures, and working with Systems Administrators and other engineers to perform regular maintenance, work with Security team to ensure network compliance - 20%

3. Perform Infrastructure Monitoring (setting up and monitoring alerts, events, notifications and reports on network, and environmental), and working with Systems Administrators to guide proactive monitoring - 20%

4. Respond to tier 2 service desk tickets, production outages to SLA and procedure - 10%

Required experience:

• Routing and Switching- 8+ years
• IP Telephony- 5+ years
• Firewall Maintenance- 5+ years
• Load balancers- 4+ years
• Linux or Windows OS- 3+ years
• MS networking- 3+ years
• Storage- 3+ years
• Virtualized environments- 3+ years
• Network and System Monitoring- 3 + years
• Scripting- 3+ years
• Wireless Network technology, especially Cisco, and especially where management controllers are deployed.
• Cisco phone systems
• Cisco UCS
• Network Security
• Implementing QoS initiatives to support video and voice communications.
• Implementing and supporting BGP
• Firewall administration and configuration with sophisticated understanding of ports, protocols, and routing and switching in a firewalled, wide area network
• VMware
• Microsoft Active Directory - experience with design, migrations, use of elements like group policies
• Understanding of communications/telecommunications circuits
• Building and maintaining networks to meet compliance with NIST, FISMA and other certifications, standards, and guidance.