Network Engineer

TIAG is now hiring a Network Engineer to support our team onsite at the Office of Naval Research in Arlington, VA.

This is a position that is 100% onsite (5 days/week at the ONR in Arlington). This position requires a Secret clearance to be able to start work. US or Naturalized Citizenship are a requirement for eligibility.

Responsibilities for the Network Engineer will include the following:

• LAN infrastructure support: Staging, Installation and Maintaining Cisco Nexus and Catalyst switches, as well as Aruba wireless controllers. Familiar with network connectivity to include copper, fiber optics, and wireless
• WAN support: Providing support for Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) neighbor configurations.
• Cloud architecture support: for AWS services (IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, etc.) to support operational network architectures.
• Security policy configuration: Managing security features on Palo Alto firewalls, including App-ID, User-ID, Global Protect, Wildfire, NAT policies, and security profiles.
• Authentication and access management: Configuring and managing Authentication, Authorization, and Accounting (AAA) architecture using Radius for Cisco, Aruba, and Palo Alto platforms.
• Configuration of PKI authentication and PKI Certificate Managements
• Network troubleshooting: Troubleshooting issues related to TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6 subnetting, access lists, and connectivity on Cisco and Palo Alto devices.
• Performance monitoring: Using tools like SolarWinds to monitor network performance and test network capabilities.
• Experience on Cisco data center deployment to include Cisco Nexus
• Familiar with network protocols including TCP/IP, UDP, DHCP, TFTP, SCP/SSH
• Documentation and compliance: Creating and maintaining detailed network documentation and adhering to yearly Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) policies.
• Hardware and software upgrades: Implementing new network equipment and software upgrades.
• Asset management: Practicing network asset management by keeping an inventory of network components and related documentation.
• Possesses proficient knowledge of layer 2 switching protocols including LLDP, STP, VTP, VLAN, LACP, 802.1q
• Ticket resolution: Handling and resolving support tickets using the ServiceNow platform.

Qualifications

• Five (5) years of relevant experience
• Experience developing, maintaining and supporting technical infrastructure, hardware, and system software components for mid- to large-sized projects.
• Experience determining and developing approach to solutions. Experience performing installation, maintenance, and support of system software/hardware and providing user support.
• Experience identifying key barriers/core problems and applying problem solving skills in order to deal with complex situations.
• Experience troubleshooting and resolving complex problems. Experience making decisions under conditions of uncertainty, sometimes with incomplete information, that produce effective end results.
• Experience performing engineering and roll out implementation, configuration, debugging and support for multiple platforms.
• Experience monitoring and tuning platforms to ensure expected availability and performance levels are achieved.
• Hands-on experience designing and supporting AWS environment and utilizing AWS administrator portal.
• Experience in AWS services and technologies such as IAM, VPC, S3, EC2, CloudWatch and CloudTrail, Route 53, RDS, SSM, ElasticSearch and Lambda.

Required Certifications:

• IAT Level II
• CCNA or another Cisco Certification