Our client's large and growing program is responsible for all telecommunications, cloud, data center, and network services across multiple government centers and facilities nationwide! The Network Engineering role will have the opportunity to make massive impacts for their Network Services team, with a focus in Data Center technology, including enhancements and modernizations to current Data Center solutions & overall networking infrastructure that is critical for groundbreaking initiatives. Come join a mission focused team that provides both growth and longevity to your career!

Must be willing to go onsite 2-3 days/week in Houston, TX (77058)

Requirements:

• 8+ years of network engineering experience with 5+ years focus on Data Centers utilizing Cisco ACI
• Extensive experience with Network Micro-Segmentation including multi-pod / multi-site deployments
• Strong hands-on experience with OSPF & BGP protocols
• Experience managing and configuring load balancers to optimize network traffic distribution

Preferred Skills:

• SDA or SDWAN experience
• Ansible automation & scripting experience
• Lead experience over other network engineers
• CCNIE certification
• Active PUBLIC TRUST clearance (highly preferred)

Responsibilities:

• Work directly and indirectly with customers, Technicians, Network Engineers, and/or Network Architects to execute network design changes or modifications to Data Center infrastructure, as well as identify, analyze, and resolve issues for customer impacting events that maybe escalated
• Support and lead Network Micro-Segmentation as well as multi pod and multi-site network deployments
• Engage in decision making regarding appropriate network changes to maintain configuration control and minimize configuration size using knowledge of network sub-netting and best practices per industry standards
• Use Standard Operating Procedure’s (SOP), Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTP), and Work Instruction’s (WI) to complete Change task via Command Line Interface (CLI) on device
• Perform service validation to assess if deployed changes have caused impacts to customer traffic using provided expectations of traffic behavior, lessons learned, and customer reporting
• Use network decision making skills for configurations such as detailed step by step instructions within the network switch operating system for new network devices that are replacing legacy network equipment that needs to be refreshed or replaced from time to time as a part of your design
• Provide assessment and design recommendations to resolve certain network device security vulnerabilities
• Provide wireless local area network (WLAN) device analysis and new access point designs to support expansion or reduce constraints as a measure to increase network capacity and/or bandwidth