Overview

About Level Up 

Level Up, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AVIAN, represents a fusion of innovation, reliability, and top-tier cyber security and IT solutions. As a Virginia-based small business with over 150 years of collective experience, we pride ourselves on providing industry-leading expertise, big data analytics, and all-source research and analysis. Our technical capabilities directly bolster our customers' objectives, from mission centers to forward-deployed operations. 

In 2021, we joined forces with AVIAN, an employee-owned business and one of America’s fastest-growing private companies. With a shared commitment to resourcefulness, responsiveness, and reachability, we continue to uphold our trademark dependability and innovation, delivering exceptional services to our 80 government and commercial clients across 13 states. 

Beyond our technical and consulting prowess, we at Level Up believe in creating a positive impact within our communities. Through our charitable giving and volunteer programs, we support causes close to our hearts and inspire meaningful change. This commitment to service and community enhancement is what we call "The Level Up Way". 

Together, Level Up and AVIAN offer comprehensive solutions, blending technology and community engagement to create an exceptional partnership for our employees, customers, and community. 

Responsibilities

The successful candidate will join the existing Network Team to support all aspects of the Sponsor’s large, complex, and growing network infrastructure.

Duties, Tasks & Responsibilities

• Collaborating with teammates to create, implement, and troubleshoot new engineering designs
• Translating requirements from internal stakeholders into engineering designs based on a standardized network architecture
• Presenting proposed changes to the standardized architecture to internal review boards
• Creating drawings and other configuration management documentation to track network changes
• Troubleshooting switch, router, and firewall connectivity issues between various customer sites
• Traveling to various data centers in the WMA to support ongoing network operations
• Completing patching of all network devices (router, switch, firewall, etc.) in accordance with Sponsor’s policies
• Performing quarterly reviews of all network device access control lists and rulesets

Required Experience, Skills, & Technologies

• Significant hands-on Cisco hardware configuration and maintenance experience, and hands-on experience in an enterprise-scale network environment
• Proficient understanding of the OSI model, TCP/IP, and subnetting
• Demonstrated proficiency with Cisco switches and Cisco ASA firewalls
• Demonstrated experience with Tier II/III level troubleshooting
• Demonstrated experience configuring various routing protocols.
• Demonstrated experience building IPSec and/or MACSec tunnels
• Strong shell scripting experience

Desired Experience, Skills & Technologies

• Hands on experience with Palo Alto firewalls
• Hands on experience with Cisco Firepower and/or Cisco ISE
• Hands on experience with VXLAN

Qualifications

Clearance Required