Job Description

Job Description

Job Description

RedSky is seeking an experienced Network Engineer to support a Department of Defense (DoD) customers’ day to day operations for the Security Operations Offices in various countries The ideal candidate will provide advanced technical support to maintain, analyze, troubleshoot, and restore computer and information systems to operational status, including networking devices, computers, thin/zero clients, laptops, and peripherals. This is a deployable position (travel is frequent, between 50-60% is common) and will require travel to both the continental United States (CONUS) and outside the CONUS (OCONUS) locations; possession and maintenance of a current U.S. passport is required. The goal is to ensure data, voice, video, and other communication requirements are correctly provisioned and operational to support assured communication. RedSky offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes medical, dental, life insurance, and tuition reimbursement. Other benefits include 401K, paid government holidays, and personal leave.

Responsibilities:

• Work alongside Network and System Engineers responsible providing datacenter services throughout USCENTCOM to achieve mission requirements. This entails deploying new hardware/software, services both maintaining and up upgrading current servers and or services.
• Be able to accurately analyze datacenter architectures, workflows, problems, situations, practices, or procedures to identify relevant concerns and factors
• Establish and maintain cooperative working relationships with multiple work centers and clients within USCENTCOM, and also be able to work with other DoD agencies as necessary, information services (IS) team members, contract and government management, and IT personnel/staff
• Work with Network and System teams to resolve service affecting outages. This includes routing, switching, cabling, micro-segmentation, contracts as it pertains to Cisco ACI environment, network gear for LAN and servers for physical and virtualized services environment.
• Is a member of the USCENTCOM Network Operations team but also works with and alongside multiple other IT verticals located within USCETNCOM and our partners
• Cisco ACI engineer must have experience building and operating data center network fabrics. Experience with network routing protocols and Ethernet switching. Background in troubleshooting large, complex networks. Understanding of VMWare with VDS, NSX and Hypervisor platforms a plus. Experience with IT Service Management and Highly Reliability Organizations a plus.
• All the above skills will be used to assist in maintain current datacenter fabric and to help move the architecture forward as new technologies evolve.

Required Skills/Qualifications:

• 3-5 years hands on Datacenter experience (Cisco ACI and VMWare (deployed with VDS and NSX).
• Network specialty, Data Center Network infrastructure which may include: Nexus 7000/9000, NXOS, Cisco ACI, Fabric Path, Multi Site Orchestrator (MSO), Packet Brokers, and Firewalls.
• Ability to implement and maintain protocols such as OSPF, IS-IS, BGP, MP-BGP, GRE, NAT, VRF/Routing, vPC, FabricPath, OTV, BFD, PIM, FHRP, STP, LACP, EVPN, VMM, EPLD, SPAN and VXLAN. Familiarity with ACI Policy Model.
• Experience integrating ACI with Cisco Tetration and or Cisco Secure Workload in concert with VMware.
• Troubleshoot IP underlay, IP overlay, Ethernet, and Multicast. Knowledge in complex Data Center and Cloud Infrastructure.
• Experience working within datacenter constructs deploying Cisco Dashboard Fabric Controller.
• Experience working within datacenter constructs using Nexus Dashboards would be a plus; we maintain several smaller environments utilizing Cisco Nexus Dashboards.
• Verbal and writing skills to effectively communicate with diverse groups such as: executives, managers, and subject matter experts.
• Be able to effectively and clearly organize and communicate thoughts and ideas.
• Organize workflow to accomplish established objectives. Prioritize assignments to complete work in a timely manner.
• Work independently and follow through on assignments with minimal direction.
• Bachelor's: Computer Science, Information Technology. Equivalent experience will be accepted in lieu of the required degree or diploma. or related field TYPICAL EXPERIENCE: 4 years recent relevant experience deploying Datacenter Fabrics (preferably Cisco ACI fabrics).

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