Senior Network Engineer II

Title: Sr Network Engineer II

Location: Washington, DC (on-site, full time)

Job Description

Please note that this is a full-time, direct-hire role. Due to segments of our customer base, we cannot sponsor employment visas.

Senior network engineering support to include advanced data and VoIP design, upgrades, troubleshooting, and Level 3 operational support for the campus and wide area networks. 

The Senior Network Engineer should have extensive experience in design, implementation, and support of complex data and voice networks, provisioning and troubleshooting wide area services, diagnosing and resolving equipment configuration and network problems, monitoring network faults and performance, and designing and implementing cabling infrastructures to support voice and data. Typical duties include (but are not limited to): 

• Engineering design and implementation for data, voice, and/or video services.
• Engineering design and implementation for VoIP and QoS services.
• Engineering design and implementation for business continuity, redundancy, diversity, and failover for data services.
• Engineering design and implementation for an IPv6 transition.
• Providing Senior‐level operational support (troubleshooting and resolving network problems and outages).
• Monitoring advanced network and system performance.
• Providing customer liaison.
• Documentation (network diagrams, network device configuration templates, design validation reports, testing plans, etc.).
• Knowledge transfer on new/upgraded technologies and services to client Level 2 (Network Configuration Management) and Level 3 (Network Systems Engineering) staff.
• Coordinating work on projects, including assigning and scheduling tasks.
• Following client IT Governance methodology for managing projects.
• System engineering technical support

Requirements:

This position requires experience in the following tasks: 

• 6+ years of hands‐on experience designing, implementing, and supporting complex data networks.
• Extensive hands‐on experience with Cisco routers and switches, Cisco IOS and Catalyst OS, routing protocols EIGRP, RIP, BGP, IBGP, OSPF, and TCP/IP, IEEE 802.x Ethernet, IPSec, and Wireless networking.
• Experience planning an IPv6 migration.
• Expert knowledge of and extensive experience with Netflow and NMS systems.
• Senior‐level troubleshooting of complex data networks.
• Designing and implementing for network redundancy and failover.
• Implementing best practices and applicable information security/information assurance policies and principles in the delivery of network services.
• SDLC and system engineering technical support.
• Providing customer service.
• Managing data/voice/video communications projects.
• Managing data communications projects utilizing Cisco equipment preferred.
• Contractor personnel filling this position will be required to:
• Work across teams and functional areas.
• Train and/or transfer knowledge. Contractor must train Client staff on new technologies and services prior to deployment.
• Lead and/or supervise technical staff.
• Communicate effectively both orally and in writing.
• Listen to customer concerns, be responsive to individual customer needs, and work with customers to answer their service questions.

It would be great if you also had

• Expert knowledge of and extensive experience with Netflow and NMS.
• Cisco professional certification at the CCIE level; Cisco Systems Instructor certification
• A 4-year academic degree from an accredited university

BlueAlly is committed to equal employment opportunity for all employees and providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at BlueAlly are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion, or belief, national, social, or ethnic origin, sex, age, disability, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

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