Mid-level Network Engineer

The Mid-Level Network Engineer will work in a Customs & Border Protection’s (CBP) Enterprise Infrastructure Solutions (EIS) contract, which provides mission-critical communications, internet connectivity, and network services that support the law enforcement agency’s systems and facilities across the United States and overseas. Resources will be required to travel both CONUS and OCONUS deploying to CBP Field Sites for onsite support as needed.

Location/Travel: Remote support but requires travelling both CONUS and OCONUS deploying to CBP Field Sites for onsite support as needed.

Position Roles and Responsibilities:

• Interface with customers to collect and clarify requirements
• Manage network communications testing, installation, and support for the MAN/WAN system
• Mentor and provide guidance to other networking team members
• Identify and diagnose problems affecting network performance using software and hardware tools
• Provide recommendations to enhance and improve network performance
• Troubleshoot network infrastructure systems as needed
• Perform system engineering design, integration, and implementation tasks and activities, including coordination of personnel, hardware, software, budget, facilities, and/or equipment
• Interface with vendors, when necessary, during outages or periods of degraded system performance
• Evaluate, design, document, install, implement, test, perform problem isolation and resolution, monitor, tune, and set standards.
• Provides client consulting and training on the interfacing and use of the network facilities.
• Researches, evaluates, and recommends new computer network equipment and technologies.
• Utilizes monitoring, performance analysis, network management, software and hardware equipment to trouble shoot and isolate problems, gauge network performance, and trace data and protocol activity.
• Provides internal consulting, technical guidance, information and support to application developers, computer operations, company management and departmental clients. Assists in internal training programs.
• Must be able to work with minimal supervision and possess excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Provide for Tier IV escalation support of CBP’s Enterprise-Wide Area Network Infrastructure
• Configure Cisco network routers, switches, and wireless controllers for LAN/WAN connectivity
• Develop network designs and comprehensive site analysis
• Cisco Firewall design and configuration
• Root Cause Analysis support
• Troubleshoot, diagnose, investigate, and resolve issues with network connectivity and latency
• Troubleshoot multiple MPLS networks in a highly secure environment

• At least 3-10 years of network engineering experience of Medium to Large WAN network experience: functions and concepts of a wide area network, designing LAN/WAN's and network engineering:
• Experience with Cisco routing/switching configuration and troubleshooting to the CCNP level, ASRs, Generation 2, and 1900-7600 routers, Cisco NGFWs, and F5 Load Balancers
• IP experience (to include sub-netting and routing), IPV4/IPV6
• Riverbed WAN Optimization
• Fusion Center
• Cisco Office Extend
• BGP experience required
• EIGRP and OSPF routing
• Cisco DMVPN concepts
• Next Hop Resolution Protocol (NHRP)
• Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
• Adept in using troubleshooting and performance management tools such as Cisco Prime, Riverbed SteelCentral, NetScout, Gigamon, Cisco Prime, etc.

Eligibility/Clearance Requirements: Must be able to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship

• Clearance Preference:
  • CBP Full BI - 1st priority
  • Any DHS badge + DoD Top Secret or Secret - 2nd choice
  • DoD Secret or Top Secret + willingness to get CBP clearance - 3rd choice (it can take 45 days to 6 months to obtain a CBP clearance – work can only begin once the clearance is fully adjudicated)
• Certifications/Skillsets: CCNP, CCIE, Cloud Design and Migration

• CBP clearance
• Cisco ACI experience
• Deep packet capture and analysis experience
• Data Center Migration experience
• Amazon Web Services (AWS) CSR configuration
• Microsoft Azure/Office 365
• End to end application mapping
• Software Defined Networks

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Join the Sev1Tech family where you can achieve great accomplishments while fostering a satisfying and rewarding career progression.  Please apply directly through the website at: https://www.sev1tech.com/careers/current-openings/#/    #joinSev1tech

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