Senior Network Engineer

Title Senior Network Engineer EOE Statement Anakim Consulting is an equal employment opportunity and affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regards to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Description

Senior Network Engineer
Greenbelt, Maryland 20770

Job Type: Full Time
Schedule: Shift work and non-standard hours
Location: On-Site; Must reside within commuting area

Anakim Consulting has an immediate need for a Senior/SME level Network Engineer to support a federal government program environment. Qualified candidates will have expertise with network and security architecture and network topology working with Cisco and Juniper technologies.

General responsibilities include:

Apply specialized knowledge in delivering technical requirements and supporting problem-solving within the IT environment that may include network, compute, storage, data services, cybersecurity, and related tools and applications

Job specific responsibilities include:

• Provide system and network optimization design, implementation, testing, and maintenance support for a complex enterprise network
• Resolve Tier 3 escalated network and security support issues
• Conduct network assessments, identify possible vulnerabilities, and recommend/develop solutions
• Lead development of network documentation, diagrams, and standard operating procedures.
• Support continuous service improvements (CSI)
• Actively participate in problem resolution and root cause analysis
• Work with cross-functional teams to plan and execute network upgrades, migrations, and deployments
• Manage vendor relationships, including engagement on incident support activities and ensure timely delivery of program deliverables
• Support monitoring, capacity planning, backup, and recovery of network equipment
• Maintain ongoing evaluation of new trends and technologies and provide input and evaluation to improve service delivery
• Follow and promote industry best practices
• Provide training, mentorship and coaching to junior engineer team, as requested
• Support testing for setup, installation, and transition to operations of service infrastructure devices, NMS and tools
• Serve as a primary COOP capability support engineer
• Support lifecycle sustainment and refresh activities
• Document resolution and track service tickets in designated system
• Develop knowledge management artifacts
• Support on-site schedule
• Support shift work and non-standard hours

Position Requirements

Basic requirements include:

• U.S. Citizenship (no dual citizenship)
• Current Public Trust security access or ability to obtain Public Trust
• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technology discipline;
  • Additional years of related experience may be considered in lieu of a degree;
  • Related master's level education may be considered as a substitute for equivalent experience
• 8-12 years of related experience (depending on education) in a network engineering role supporting lead/senior level responsibilities and providing technical expertise and guidance to others

Job specific requirements include:

• Network engineering experience and expertise including:
  • Defense-in-depth principles
  • Network and security architecture
  • Network topology
  • IT device integrity
  • Common security elements
  • Engineering and troubleshooting networks
• Extensive routing and switching experience in one or more of the following:
  • MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols such as BGP, OSPF, IS-IS
  • Switching protocols such as Spanning Tree Protocol
  • VLANs, LLDP, VoIP
  • Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies
• Hands-on experience working with industry standards for Cisco, Juniper, and Ciena
• Strong understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing
• Experience supporting quick turnaround responses and real-time dataflow issues
• Experience working with network monitoring tools such as NNMi, Spectrum, MRTG, and CACTI
• Demonstrated abilities to communicate network issues with technical teams and discuss issues with technical/non-technical customers and team members
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
• Experience developing and maintaining technical documents
• Experience conducting analyses and generating related reports
• Experience developing and presenting technical information to senior management, customers, and stakeholders
• Ability to work both independently and as part of a team
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Availability to support full on-site schedule
• Ability to support shift work and non-standard hours

Preferred experience:

• Current CCNA, CCNP, or JNCIA certification
• Experience working with Juniper routing, switching and security appliances such as MX, EX, SRX
• Experience with implementation and design concepts for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)
• Experience with NNMi configuration and maintenance
• Experience working with Splunk
• Experience with NetOps concepts including change management, configuration management and performance management
• Experience working with commercial carrier service providers such as Verizon and AT&T
• Knowledge of Linux

Full-Time/Part-Time Full-Time Position Senior Network Engineer About the Organization Anakim Consulting is a privately held small company that provides growth opportunities for employees. Come join our team!

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