Network Engineer

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
This position is for a Network Engineer supporting the Army Edge Computing Capability (AECC) project that ALTESS is fielding for the US Army. The AECC solution is a hyperconverged multitenant private cloud hosting environment for hosting Army enterprise and tactical applications. AECC is utilizing the full suite of VMware products (ESXi vSAN NSX vCloud Foundations ARIA Automation Tanzu) to implement a Software Defined Data Center (SDDC) across multiple global sites. ALTESS provides value added common and managed services built on top of the VMware foundation that hosted Army applications will require. ALTESS is a managed service provider (MSP) and hosting services provider for Army applications. ALTESS is a Product Director office under Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS).

Position Duties:

• Work with Government engineers to develop and maintain the AECC architecture.
• Develop deploy and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for deployment and sustainment of the VMware NSX network architecture in the AECC.
• As applications are hosted on the AECC solution utilize IaC for the provisioning of the network foundation for customer enclaves.
• Provide daily administration of the network to include patching and upgrading of all VMware network components in coordination with the full suite of VMware products.
• Monitor health and utilization of the network resources and notify the AECC lead when critical issues arise and additional resources will be required.
• Harden the network per commercial best practices and the required government cybersecurity controls.
• Troubleshooting and root cause analysis of any hosting platform network issues.
• Develop and maintain system infrastructure and process documentation (system diagrams network topology software configurations device configurations standard operating procedures).
• Provide on-call support for triage and resolution of after-hours production incidents.
• Make recommendations for improvements to security scalability manageability and performance across the AECC network enclaves.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Required Certifications:
• Security+ or equivalent DoD 8570.01-M IA Tech Level II certification.
• Must have (or obtain within 6 months of hire) any of the following:
  • VMware Certified Professional – Network Virtualization (VCP-NV)
  • VMware Certified Advanced Professional – Network Virtualization (VCAP-NV)
  • VMware Certified Design Expert – Network Virtualization (VCDX-NV) Other equivalent software defined networking industry certification
• This position requires a Secret Security clearance or higher (US Citizenship is required)
• Required Skills:
• Senior level network engineer experience with at least five years of experience in implementing IT infrastructure systems specifically focusing on networking infrastructure in enterprise environments.
• Demonstrated expertise in VMware NSX including design deployment and management.
• Proficiency in network engineering including LAN/WAN routing switching and network security.
• Familiarity with the VMware Suite of products: NSX VSAN vSphere ESXi ARIA and other VMware tools.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex issues related to VMware infrastructure and network configurations.
• Experience with network automation tools (e.g. Ansible Terraform) and scripting languages (Python PowerShell etc.).
• Strong knowledge of TCP/IP BGP OSPF VLANs and MPLS.
• Strong automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC) skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Working knowledge of DoD Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIG) and the Information Assurance Vulnerability Management (IAVM) process.