Network Engineer I

Job Description:
One of our top Government integrator clients is responsible for all telecommunications, cloud, data center, and network services across all NASA centers and facilities in the U.S.! The Network Engineering role will have the opportunity to make massive impacts for their Network Services team, with a focus in LAN Engineering, supporting enhancements and modernizations to current enterprise solutions & overall network infrastructure that is critical for groundbreaking initiatives. Come join a mission focused team that provides both growth and longevity to your career!

U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder + active PUBLIC TRUST clearance or higher required. *POSITION REQUIRES HYBRID ONSITE IN MERRITT ISLAND, FLORIDA*

Requirements:
• 3+ years of network engineering experience supporting Cisco network infrastructure (LAN, WLAN, WAN switches/routers)
• Including SD-WAN or SDA experience
• Hands-on experience with Cisco DNA Center (DNA or DNAC) or Catalyst Center for configurations/management & Cisco ISE for network security/access controls
• Experience with OSPF and/or IS-IS protocols
• Must have an active Public Trust Clearance – federal background check including fingerprinting

Nice to have:
• Active CCNA, CCNP, or CCNIE certifications
• Splunk experience (including writing queries)
• Experience with Cisco Performance Manager or SolarWinds

Responsibilities:
• Work directly and indirectly with NASA customers, Technicians, Network Engineers and/or Network Architects to execute network design changes or modifications to the of the NASA network infrastructure, as well as identify, analyze, and resolve issues for customer impacting events that maybe escalated
• 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
• Be able to read, interpret and provide network designs for various types of presentations both technical nature and of the leadership informative nature
• 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
• Perform periodic review of the capacity and operating functionality of network devices using critical thinking to analyze and design providing a solution for the constraints