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Senior Network Engineer
| Estimated Pay | $53 per hour |
|---|---|
| Hours | Full-time, Part-time |
| Location | Washington, DC Washington, District of Columbia |
Compare Pay
Estimated Pay$33.96
$52.77
$78.15
About this job
Job Description
If you're looking for a position with a company that values innovation in all that we do, value-orientation in all choices and decisions, and has an employee-centric company focus, you've come to the right place. Simple Technology Solutions' motivated team members deliver remarkable solutions to our Federal Government clients every day. We are lifelong learners, value outcomes over busy-ness and cultivate collaboration over individual contributions.
Our in-depth experience helping government agencies in their installation, configuration, and optimization of leading Agile Software Development, DevOps, and Cloud Migration tools has led to rapid growth and an increased demand for our services. This growing team has an exciting startup feel, but we are not new to the game. As experienced government contractors, we are mentors, coaches, and thought leaders, who pride ourselves in sharing our knowledge and expertise with those growing within our organization.
A Little More About STS
You don't get named a "Best Place to Work" by the Washington Business Journal, receive the Washington Technology magazine's FAST50 status, and achieve Inc Magazine's "Inc 500" status just by 'talking the talk'. Our vision of excellence is aligned to our 'Techquity' (Tech-Equity) focus and drive. We understand that disparities and gaps in opportunities and earning potential exist for marginalized groups, such as people of color and women, in the IT industry. By leveraging the power, passion, and talent from this group we are able to deliver innovative GovCon IT solutions that exceed our customer's expectations.
Our team members are not just 'employees'; they're parents, friends, volunteers, artists, students, athletes, and all of the other things that make them whole people. The flexibility that STS offers allows them to balance their personal lives while providing the top-notch services our customers have come to depend on.
Additionally, the team benefits from our partnerships with AWS, Google, Microsoft and CloudBees – with access to improved knowledge and the opportunity to become a SME with one or more of our above partners. At Simple Technology Solutions, we don't see Team Member benefits as 'perks'. Taking care of the people who take care of us is the standard. Click our benefits infographic to learn more about our industry-leading options that attract and retain top talent. But don't just take our word for it, see what our current team members say about us on Glassdoor.
Simple Technology Solutions is a 8(a) HUBZone Company and we offer an annual $5,000 HUBZone bonus to team members that live in a qualified HUBZone and provide the required supporting documentation. To see if you could qualify for an annual HUBZone bonus, check out the HUBZone map HERE.
Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to add to our team. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.
Quick Position Overview:
- US Citizenship is required
- Bachelor's Degree is required
- Minimum of 7 years' position related experience is required
- Required Certification - CCNP
The Role:
We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to work closely with the customer leadership team to achieve business objectives. The Senior Network Engineer will lead a team of engineers in an agile environment. Aside from technical qualifications, application should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal. The applicant must have extensive network engineering, design, implementation, optimization and maintenance experience. A passion for innovation, performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.
The Senior Network Engineer at STS will:
- Provide technical expertise and assist with network integration and consolidation efforts across multiple systems environments.
- Addresses and resolves technical problems of moderate complexity relating to the installation and upgrade of network hardware and systems.
- Interface with customers, vendors and technical staff to analyze business and technical requirements.
- Engineer/implement technical solutions from a cradle to grave technical approach.
- Lead a team of engineers on projects, ensuring everyone is properly utilized to provide a finalized technical solution/implementation.
- Assist/train engineers on new technologies to better the organizations technical expertise.
- Understanding of software automation tools and ability to incorporate programming languages to do the repetitious tasks.
- Document engineering standards, supports the development of network architecture and engineering designs and changes.
- Assist in evaluating current and emerging technologies, conducts technical assessments and makes recommendation to senior engineers.
Education and Experience:
Required
- Bachelor's degree
- US Citizenship
- A minimum of seven (7) years of subject matter experience deploying WAN/LAN, Routing, Switching, Optimization and extensive exposure with Cloud Service Providers.
- Experience designing mission critical LAN/WAN/CSP infrastructure.
- Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.
- Strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills.
- Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
- Proven experience with managing and using DevOps concepts.
- CCNP Certification
- Must be able to work the hours of 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of your home location
Desired Skills
- Experience working at a DHS federal agency program.
- Layer 2 and Layer 3 hands-on configuration experience, with emphasis on dynamic routing protocols, such as, BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
- Knowledge configuring GRE and IPSEC Tunnels, MPLS, DMVPN, Pseudowires, VPLS and Remote Site and Site-to-Site VPNs.
- Knowledge in network DevOPs utilizing python, API's, network automation, Netconf, restconf, netmiko, yaml, jinja2, ansible.
- Network Engineering Experience in AWS, Azure, and other Cloud network engineering vendors.
- Hands on experience with the implementation and use of network monitoring, fault management and performance analysis tools, such as, SYSLOG, SNMP, Solarwinds, ISE, etc.
- Familiarity with data center infrastructure and experience with Cisco Routers, Switches, Nex Gen Firewalls, ESXi, VMware.
- Utilizing Juniper SRX equipment and Palo-Alto Firewalls to engineer boundary protection mechanisms.
- Experience with network security concepts, best practices and technologies including, but not limited to, SSH, IPSec, TACACS, PKI, firewall policies, DNS, Active Directory, and 802.1x.
- Engineering solutions with Cisco Call Manger and VTC technologies.
Thank you for your interest in becoming a part of our team. Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon the successful win of a contract.
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