Nisga’a Data Systems is honored to provide highly skilled, cleared personnel serving those who are committed to our national defense, security, and mission across five continents. We are dedicated to delivering capabilities and services that inspire confidence.

Summary:

Assigned staff shall have expert knowledge and experience as a  Network Engineer, including demonstrating substantial experience with state of the art routing protocols, VLAN configurations, network design, wireless network design and implementation, troubleshooting network performance issues in a large scale and complex network environment, and applying current industry standards and best practices for large scale networks in design, problem resolution, capacity planning, and proactive methodologies to prevent LAN/WAN performance issues, as well as proven network documentation practices. 

Essential Job Functions:

• Demonstrated abilities with infrastructure design, configuration, test, and troubleshooting abilities. Ability to prioritize and multitask among various projects.
• Has willingness to learn new technologies and maintain industry knowledge of emerging technologies and industry best practices . Excellent communication, presentation and interpersonal skills. Ability to develop project plans, define goals and budget within the network and telecom space

Necessary Skills and Knowledge:

• Advanced  skills designing, configuring and troubleshooting enterprise routing protocols including  OSPF, BGPv4, and MPLS/BGP, QoS policies and priority queuing, VLANs, IP SLA &  Netflow network management.
• Demonstrated abilities with infrastructure design,  configuration, test, and troubleshooting abilities.
• Ability to prioritize and multitask  among various projects.
• Has willingness to learn new technologies and maintain industry  knowledge of emerging technologies and industry best practices. 
• Excellent  communication, presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to develop project plans,  define goals and budget within the network and telecom space.
• Identifies resources  needed and can coordinate other engineers to accomplish enterprise scale deployments. 
• Capacity to define procedures, work instructions or other methods for sharing knowledge  and achieving consistent results.

Minimum Qualifications:

• A minimum of 3 years’ experience in firewall and network security  solutions: Cisco ASA, NGFW, IDS, IPS, Content Filtering, RADIUS, TACACS,  802.1X, and VPN.
• A minimum of 5 years’ experience in network design and support in  Cisco networking environment.
• Hands-on experience implementing and administering  network devices, setting and maintaining policies and rights/security within the  environment for devices such as: Cisco Firewalls, Cisco Network switches (IOS and NXOS),  Cisco ISR, Cisco VPN, Cisco Wireless Controllers and Access Points. 

Preferred Qualifications:

• A minimum of 4-year degree in Computer Science or related field or  equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of a Professional level certification from the network vendor. (I.e. Cisco Certified Network Professional)