Network Engineer – Hybrid Schedule

Title: Network Engineer

Location: Washington DC suburbs (close by in Virginia) – Hybrid 2X in office

Salary: $125-135K + Bonus

Our client is a world renowned Non-Profit organization with headquarters the close Virginia suburbs of Washington DC. Free parking.

The Networking Engineer is responsible for the design, build, configuration, testing, deployment, and proactive support of the network hardware and interconnectivity infrastructure both in the cloud and on-prem environments. This role will work with others to plan, execute, and deliver projects, roadmaps, confirm security compliance, assure systems align with IT strategies, test and deploy codes, research and write technical reports, and meet departmental targets and the goals.

• Plan, design, build, deploy and support scalable networks, systems and security strategies
• Collaborate with Engineers, Administrators and Support Specialist to run, support, secure and monitor on-prem, cloud and remote networks
• Consult on multiple cross-functional networking projects and applications
• Ensuring that information systems and assets are monitored to identify networking events and verify the effectiveness of protective measures
• Ensuring response activities are coordinated with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., external support from service providers)
• Ensuring activities are performed to prevent expansion of a networking event, mitigate its effects, and resolve the incident
• Ensuring response processes and procedures are executed and maintained, to ensure response to detected networking incidents
• Identify, review, evaluate and validate networking standards; technical requirements, gaps and issues, and communicate proposed and custom solutions to existing architecture

Operational

• Research, implement and consult on capacity planning models, NexGen and redundancy solutions
• Create plans and procedures to troubleshoot, diagnose and resolve escalated support problems
• Contribute to Change and Incident Management, problem escalation and work processes
• Evaluate networks, review and analyze migration strategies, and document codes and scripts
• Provide recommendations to deploy, migrate and support network monitoring tools
• Conduct reviews, evaluate and provide recommendations on vendor services
• Perform research, create documentation and write reports

Security Operations 

• Investigate security issues and risks, resolve and report security vulnerabilities to Cyber Security
• Create and document network / security policies and baselines
• Recommend and implement appropriate up-to-date security technologies, network segmentation and access control, and End-Point security solutions
• Assist with planning, developing and reviewing security requirements and procedures
• Identify security audit discrepancies to implement corrective and preventive measures

Experience requirement:

• Minimum of 3 years’ experience working as a systems engineer or administrator
• Minimum of 4 years’ experience working as a network engineer or administrator
• Minimum of 5 years’ networking and security operations experience

Education and/or certification requirement:

• Cisco CCNP/CCDP, or Fortinet FCP, or equivalent required
• Certifications equivalent to the Cisco CCIE/CCDE, or Fortinet equivalent, desired
• Successful completion of Cisco or HPN Routing and Switching training (BCMSN, BSCI)
• Bachelor’s Degree in a related field such as networking, cybersecurity, information technology, or computer science; equivalent combination of education experience may be considered

Technical skills and abilities:

• Ability to participate as a technical lead on all projects requiring networking expertise and consultation
• Ability to design, secure and support multiple inter-connected networks, devices, and profiles
• Ability to deploy, integrate, configure, and maintain systems which comprise the overall networking technology stack
• Ability to communicate complex networking concepts in a clear and concise manner for laypersons unfamiliar with networking and/or IT concepts
• Proficiency to design, implement and troubleshoot network security policies, VLANs, VoIP, TLS, SSL, multifactor authentication, password management and monitoring tools
• Expertise knowledge and skill to configure and troubleshoot routing protocols (IGP, BGP, EIGRP, OSPF, IS-IS), network services (IPv6, IPv4, DHCP, DNS, IPAM, SNMP, PAT, NAT), multi-casts and MPLS networks
• Skilled in deploying, managing and troubleshooting Cisco, HPE and Fortinet switches, routers, firewalls and IDS/IPS
• Ability to design and implement high availability and redundant networks using F5s, QoS, CoS, NTP, HSRP, GLBP, LACP
• Strong foundational knowledge in IT technologies and concepts not limited to email security technologies, application security, cloud security (IaaS & PaaS, etc.), MSSPs, DNS, Linux, Windows
• Proficiency to install, support and troubleshoot Windows, UNIX, Linux, Mac, ESXi VMware switching, Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure, and networking backbone Cloud provisioning
• Knowledge of Change / Incident Management (ITIL, ITSM), Agile, SCRUM and Waterfall project management
• Knowledge of PowerShell/Python/JavaScript, MacOS, malware analysis, vulnerability management, WAF, CIS Benchmarks
• Ability to use DevOps, Git, Jira, Confluence, automating and ticketing (FreshService) tools

Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing non-discrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.

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