Senior Network Systems Administrator

Minimum Clearance Required

Top Secret

Responsibilities

ISYS Technologies is a reputable technology services company to the Federal Government.  Whether the focus is on space exploration, national security, cyber security, or cutting-edge engineering applications, ISYS is ready to offer you the chance to make a real-world impact in your field and for your country.  We provide long-term growth and development. Headquartered in Colorado, ISYS is engaged in programs across the country and in more than 20 states.  Our programs support multiple Federal agencies, the Department of Defense and often focused on the space initiatives of our government customers.

 

• Network integration, testing, security engineering, configuration and implementation support.
• Provide operational and engineering support status updates and technical briefings on a recurring and adhoc basis.
• Collaborate with network architects to define and/or continuously improve the program compliant configuration baselines, versioning, and compliance tracking.
• Support the development, accountability and sustainment of lab environment infrastructure devices.
• Test and validate automation and best practice insertion opportunities.
• Lead development of SOPs/TTPs.
• Support Continuous Service Improvements (CSI).
• Support system performance tuning and enhancements.
• Create and maintain Engineering Implementation Plans (EIP).
• Support tier escalation of incident management support tasks.
• Active participation in Incident Management (IM) and Root Cause Analysis (RCA) for Problem Management activities.
• Participate in engineering meetings to bridge the gap between operations and engineering providing operational readiness for new solutions projected to be deployed into production.
• Perform highly technical maintenance involving firewalls, VPNs, IPS, network encryption devices, and load balancers.
• Provide expert knowledge of network engineering and operations, large scale enterprise network solution implementation and transition to Network Operations, as well as test and evaluation activities. Perform highly technical maintenance involving network devices routers, switches, security solutions, and WANX.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience. (Additional years of related work experience may be substituted for a degree at the Hiring Manager's discretion).
• Effective written and oral communication and problem-solving skills
• Active DoD clearance at the Top-Secret level with SCI eligibility
• Security+ Certification or other DOD 8570 IAT Lvl II Certification within a certain timeframe after starting if not starting with one when hired.
• Extensive knowledge of defense-in-depth principles, Network and Security architecture, network topology, IT device integrity, and common security elements.
• 8+ years’ experience engineering and troubleshooting networks, including extensive routing and switching experience such as one or more of the following: MPLS, VPNs, routing protocols i.e. BGP, OSPF, IS-IS, switching protocols i.e. Spanning Tree Protocol, VLANs, LLDP, VoIP, Multicast protocols and emerging network technologies.
• Expert understanding and in-depth knowledge of IP network/subnet addressing.Experienced and adept at developing and maintaining technical documents, analyses, and reports.
• Experience developing and presenting technical information to senior customer management, customer stakeholders, and company management.
• Hands-on experience deploying, configuring and troubleshooting Cisco enterprise network routing, switching and firewall/security devices.
• Ability to travel up to 5% OCONUS travel.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Extensive SME knowledge of network engineering and operations, integration, test and evaluation activities, as well as implementation and transition to Network Operations processes and concepts
• Cisco CCNP Route/Switch and/or CCNP Security
• Experience and practical understanding of enterprise WAN principles.
• Experience with change, configuration and performance management NetOps concepts.
• IAT Level III Certification (i.e. CISSP or equivalent).

 

Essential Requirements:

US Citizenship is required.

Top Secret

 

ISYS Technologies is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected Veteran status, or disability status.

 

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