Simple Technology Solutions is looking for a Senior Network Engineer to add to our team. Please Note: This position is contingent upon contract award.

Quick Position Overview:

• US Citizenship is required
• Bachelor's Degree is required
• Minimum of 7 years' position related experience is required
• Required Certification - CCNP

The Role:

We are looking for a Senior Network Engineer to work closely with the customer leadership team to achieve business objectives. The Senior Network Engineer will lead a team of engineers in an agile environment. Aside from technical qualifications, application should have effective communication skills, both written and verbal. The applicant must have extensive network engineering, design, implementation, optimization and maintenance experience. A passion for innovation, performance, strong desire for quality conformance, and attention to detail are prerequisites for this position.

The Senior Network Engineer at STS will:

• Provide technical expertise and assist with network integration and consolidation efforts across multiple systems environments.
• Addresses and resolves technical problems of moderate complexity relating to the installation and upgrade of network hardware and systems.
• Interface with customers, vendors and technical staff to analyze business and technical requirements.
• Engineer/implement technical solutions from a cradle to grave technical approach.
• Lead a team of engineers on projects, ensuring everyone is properly utilized to provide a finalized technical solution/implementation.
• Assist/train engineers on new technologies to better the organizations technical expertise.
• Understanding of software automation tools and ability to incorporate programming languages to do the repetitious tasks.
• Document engineering standards, supports the development of network architecture and engineering designs and changes.
• Assist in evaluating current and emerging technologies, conducts technical assessments and makes recommendation to senior engineers.

Education and Experience:

Required

• Bachelor’s degree
• US Citizenship
• A minimum of seven (7) years of subject matter experience deploying WAN/LAN, Routing, Switching, Optimization and extensive exposure with Cloud Service Providers.
• Experience designing mission critical LAN/WAN/CSP infrastructure.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills required.
• Strong critical thinking, complex problem solving, appropriate judgment, and decision-making skills.
• Possess superior technical aptitude and effective written and verbal communications skills.
• Proven experience with managing and using DevOps concepts.
• CCNP Certification
• Must be able to work the hours of 8am-5pm Eastern Time regardless of your home location 

Desired Skills

• Experience working at a DHS federal agency program.
• Layer 2 and Layer 3 hands-on configuration experience, with emphasis on dynamic routing protocols, such as, BGP, EIGRP, and OSPF.
• Knowledge configuring GRE and IPSEC Tunnels, MPLS, DMVPN, Pseudowires, VPLS and Remote Site and Site-to-Site VPNs.
• Knowledge in network DevOPs utilizing python, API’s, network automation, Netconf, restconf, netmiko, yaml, jinja2, ansible.
• Network Engineering Experience in AWS, Azure, and other Cloud network engineering vendors.
• Hands on experience with the implementation and use of network monitoring, fault management and performance analysis tools, such as, SYSLOG, SNMP, Solarwinds, ISE, etc.
• Familiarity with data center infrastructure and experience with Cisco Routers, Switches, Nex Gen Firewalls, ESXi, VMware.
• Utilizing Juniper SRX equipment and Palo-Alto Firewalls to engineer boundary protection mechanisms.
• Experience with network security concepts, best practices and technologies including, but not limited to, SSH, IPSec, TACACS, PKI, firewall policies, DNS, Active Directory, and 802.1x.
• Engineering solutions with Cisco Call Manger and VTC technologies.

Thank you for your interest in becoming a part of our team. Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon the successful win of a contract.

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