Job Detail

Title: Network Design Engineer
Location: Northern Virginia
Clearance: TS/SCI clearance required.

Job Description

Project Description:Our client supports the Information Technology Agency for the Government. It's a pretty big network with a couple of different locations {the Pentagon, Crystal City (2 locations), Arlington, Ballston, DC (2), Andrews AFB, and Bolling AFB}. The Pentagon is the hub site of these sites, whether through Fiber owned by the Agency or through Verizon Managed Services' T-1 / TLS's. Our client sets up the connections coming into the Pentagon and within the last couple of years they've built a redundancy to the network in other classified locations. Our client has divided the network support into Operations and Projects. Within Operations, there are different divisions of groups doing different specialties in terms of firewall support, the management of the network, monitoring of the network, security of the network, etc. Basically they do the backbone and any type of connectivity that gets into the backbone, so it's the access, the distribution and the core. On the Projects side, they respond to customer requests in terms of what needs to be done on the network in order to be able to accommodate their needs. Anything from getting one port activated for a particular office, to setting up a move for over 100 users from one building to another, to providing a solution for a dial up or VPN connection for some of the rogue users that are always traveling. So, it's from the demark point of being the drops on the workstation, all the way through to the access, distribution and core. They do anywhere from cabling, providing connectivity, buying equipment, setting up the equipment - everything up to behind the wall. For example, if there were an office move, then they would do a site survey to look at what needs to be done for connectivity to those users. Regarding privilege levels in being able to telnet into some of these devices:At the core, they use Juniper devices, however that is mostly on the Operation Team's side. On the Projects Team's, they have access to be able to configure routers, edge device switches, they do the configurations themselves. The Projects Team's are broken down into handling customer issues for the OSD, the Army, the Air Force and others. Day-to-Day Responsibilities:The candidate will be expected to meet with the customer, get requirements through the proper channels. Once they get the req's, they will be expected to provide a cost estimate for how much it will cost for labor and equipment to get that particular job done. Once the customer is happy with that estimate and it's funded, the candidate will take the req's, write up a detailed technical plan and back out plan along with diagrams (which they have templates to pick from) and configurations all the way from the edge switch to the core, and if any firewall configurations need to be done too, they would be expected to do that too. From there, they send it off to a board of Engineers (that have been there forever and because they maintain the network they know best how it should connect and what are the standards, etc). Once the technical plan is approved, the candidate would coordinate it with the various teams and groups that have a vested interest in what it is going to do to the network. They would then coordinate a time for the outage, give everyone a heads up, after approval of that, they would have a time set up to do the outage, and hopefully in 1 or 2 shots they'll be able to implement what they have proposed. With the exception of some emergency projects, some projects may take a couple of days, weeks, even months. Any Engineer could be juggling a handful of projects at any given time. In a nutshell they have several project managers that do a lot of the customer interfacing and then they work with the various engineers within the groups. The candidate would be their own project manager and make sure that their project is fully implemented according to the standards given. Skills:
Essential (8-10+ years of Network Engineering exp):
Network Design EngineeringCisco Network Engineer - layer 2 & 3
Juniper - layer 2 a Bachelor's Degree is highly preferredSenior people would have experience configuring multilevel switches along with Spanning Trees, as well as have experience with some heavy OSPF configurations.
Plus:BS degree (if no BS degree then need another 4 yrs of exp on top of that.)CCDACCDPExtreme switches

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