NEW-CISCO Network Engineer

Description: You will be supporting CNO and working alongside the ATPG customer, to understand operational requirements to design, develop, deploy, monitor, and maintain operational network infrastructure. You will be working as part of a team to build infrastructure capabilities including tool development as part of a continuous integration/continuous deployment infrastructure. As part of the ATPG team, you will have the freedom to identify problems, test and deploy solutions, and most importantly see your work in action! You will work with a diverse team of analysts and operators to identify these problems, and watch mission utilize what you've built on a daily basis.

Responsibilities:

• Design and maintain automated solutions for Catalyst Center, ISE, and SD-WAN environments
• Build automation workflows and policies for provisioning, configuration, and security enforcement.
• Troubleshoot, optimize, and enhance automated processes for scalability and resiliency.
• Provide increased visibility of underlying systems and rules for the system administrators on the team; programmatically alert the team to items that require their immediate attention.
• Utilize metrics to understand the health of the network and identify and resolve issues.
• Emphasize customer communication and gather feedback on project status and results.

Skills Requirements:

• Strong knowledge of Cisco technologies, including Catalyst Center, ISE, Cisco SD-WAN, and enterprise routing/switching.
• Proficient in network automation and scripting.
• Expert in enterprise network protocols and software defined networking.
• Experience with version control systems.
• Competency in a dedicated Linux environment.
• Experience automating manual processes.

Nice to Haves:

• Industry certification such as CCIE/CCNP/Cisco DevNet.
• Experience deploying and running open-source tools at the agency.
• Experience working with containerization platforms.

YOE Requirement: 12 yrs, B.S. or 4 additional yrs in place of B.S.

Location: NBP

This position is 100% on-site. Applicants for positions requiring security clearance will be automatically rejected for candidates not meeting the Security Clearance requirement.