Senior Network Engineer

Veteran Owned Firm Seeking a Senior Network Engineer for Onsite Assignment in Washington, DC
My name is Stephen Hrutka and I am the owner of a Veteran owned firm in Washington, DC focused on Supply Chain, Strategic Sourcing, and Technical/Cleared Recruiting.
HRUCKUS helps other Veteran Owned businesses recruit positions across DARPA, Strategic Capabilities Office, and Federal Agencies.
Currently, my SDVOSB client has a funded opening for a Senior Network Engineer for an Onsite Role in Washington, DC. US Citizenship is a client requirement.
If this role is not a fit for you but you may know someone, I am glad to offer a referral bonus.
Thanks,
Stephen M Hrutka
Principal Consultant
HRUCKUS LLC
www.hruckus.com
Executive Summary: We are seeking a Senior Network Engineer to support a federal agency client and our project team. This is an onsite role that will work with the Veterans Administration’s Enterprise System Engineering/Capacity Management for Telecommunications team. The selected individual will serve as a member of a team that provides Enterprise level recommendations based on WAN evaluations, capacity projections, and application usage, to VA senior leadership on enterprise communications. The successful candidate will provide Tier4 escalation support when issues arise, deployment support for new technologies or architectures in the Washington, D.C. office.
Position Requirements:

• 8+ years’ experience in a large enterprise environment involving network architecture and management.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, electronics engineering or other engineering or technical discipline.
• Certifications: CCNP capable or higher required within 6 months of employment.
• Experience with Cisco router and switch administration.
• Understanding of capacity management/planning techniques and processes.
• An in-depth knowledge/understanding of carrier circuits to include, but not limited to T1, DS3, OC3, and Ethernet Transport Services.
• Knowledge of multi-address family BGP, OSPF, EIGRP is mandatory.
• Ability to interact with executive level Veterans Administrative staff.
• Desire to learn new technologies such as Cloud, 100G Metro-E, and SD-WAN.
• Ability to work across multiple projects; provide written/verbal status updates on each project on a regular basis to the team lead, Program Manager and customer.
• Knowledge and understanding of Network management and application analysis tools is required (NetScout, SolarWinds) and (OpNet preferred).
• Knowledge and understanding of network packet capturing and how applications use network.
• Must have excellent written and verbal communications skills.
• Duties may require traveling, being on call periodically, and occasionally working outside normal working hours (evenings and weekends).
• Must be able to pass a government Tier 4 High Background Investigation.
• Preference will be given to qualified Veteran candidates.

Desired Qualifications:

• Strong understanding of Networking
• Strong understanding of Cisco CLI (IOS/XE/NX-OS)

Position Duties:

• Make architecture recommendations to support the growing needs of the VA,
• Test the recommendations for enterprise compatibility in the state-of-the-art network design lab,
• Use existing Network Management tools to provide capacity management / utilization reports,
• Provide on-call escalation support in the event that an issue arises that cannot be rectified by the network operations team,
• Write white papers on new technology uses in the VA and how it will help support the mission of the VA.

Job Type: Full-time

Pay: $108,000.00 – $125,000.00 per year

Ability to commute/relocate:

• Washington, DC: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (Required)

Experience:

• Computer networking: 8 years (Required)

License/Certification:

• CCNP (Preferred)
• CCNA (Required)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)