GCyber is hiring a Chief Network Engineer to provide technical leadership, oversight, and direction to the Network Engineering team and mentor and instruct network engineers on best practices and the execution of network enhancements and upgrades and troubleshooting efforts in a large and complex network environment. You will be responsible for the health and maintenance of a large, complex networking infrastructure. This includes providing subject matter expertise and operational support to more than 8000 networked devices.
This position is 100% on site in Arlington, VA.
As a Chief Network Engineer, you will:
 

• Act as a subject-matter expert in network routing and switching, as well as network performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Review completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and make recommendations to management and/or clients.
• Evaluate new application, infrastructure, and cloud decisions in the existing context of applications, infrastructure, standards, current business strategy, and future business strategy.
• Determine system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced IT staff and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Serve as a liaison with senior clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Provides problem and incident resolution, including dealing with software and hardware vendor technical support.
• Deploy and maintain network hardware, peripherals, services, and settings in accordance with industry standards and project/operational requirements.
• Perform daily system monitoring; verify the integrity and availability of networking hardware, services, systems, and key processes; review system and application logs.
• Provide leadership in on-call troubleshooting and issue resolution as required.
• Develop and maintain installation and configuration procedures and participate in special projects as required.
• Collaborate with the Security team to identify and remediate application and operation system vulnerabilities.
• Develop scripts and other automation solutions to aid in the completion of migration and integration tasks.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:
 

• Active DoD Top Secret clearance
• BS in Computer Engineering, Network Engineering, Computer Information Systems, Telecommunications, or Management Information Systems, and a minimum of 8 -12 years of documented experience in a similar role to this position.
• DoD 8570 IAT Level II certification. (i.e. Security , CySA , CCNA-Security, CND, GSEC, GICSP, SSCP)
• Must have ONE or more of the following active network certifications:
  • Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA)
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
  • Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA).
• Experience monitoring network performance and resource utilization, trending, and capacity planning.
• 7 years primary role operating, troubleshooting, and installing network routers and switches.
• 5 years as senior or lead engineer in planning, designing, and building software defined networks.
• 5 years experience in a DoD environment
• Use of current and emergent network design principles and protocols
• Experience with multi-tenant network architectures.
• Familiarity with a wide variety network routing and switching equipment devices from multiple vendors.
• Scripting languages such as Pearl, Python, coding for network threshold events

GCyber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means you don't have to worry about whether your application process will be fair. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.
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