F5 Network Engineer

GCyber is hiring a F5 Network Engineer to support Joint Service Provider Enterprise Transport Management – Next Gen) contract at the Pentagon.
Due to the Nature of this role, the employee must report full time onsite in Arlington, VA.
As an F5 Network Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, oversight, and direction to the Core Transport Network Engineering team and mentors and instructs network engineers on best practices and the execution of network enhancements and upgrades and troubleshooting e􀆯orts in a large and complex network environment. You will be responsible for the health and maintenance of a large, complex networking infrastructure. This includes providing network administration and operational support to more than 8000 networked devices. The F5 Network Engineer will provide comprehensive network administration, security enhancements and remediation, and troubleshooting of network devices such as routers, switches, load balancers, VPNs, 802.11 Wireless, and VoIP. This position requires an understanding of best practices pertaining to network security and may require the development, deployment, and integration of network security services. The F5 Network Engineer should be able to work both independently and as part of a team.
As the F5 Network Engineer, you will:

• Act as a subject-matter expert to network routing and switching, as well as network performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Review completion and implementation of system additions and/or enhancements and makes recommendations to management and/or clients.
• Evaluate new application, infrastructure, and cloud decisions in existing context of applications, infrastructure, standards, current business strategy and future business strategy.
• Determine system specifications, input/output processes, and working parameters for hardware/software compatibility.
• Provide guidance and work leadership to less-experienced IT staff and may have supervisory responsibilities.
• Serve as liaison with senior clients, participating in meetings to ensure client needs are met.
• Provides problem and incident resolution, including dealing with software and hardware vendor technical support.
• Deploy and maintain network hardware, peripherals, services, and settings in accordance with industry standards and project/operational requirements.
• Performs daily system monitoring; verifies the integrity and availability of networking hardware, services, systems, and key processes; reviews system and application logs.
• Documents and conducts changes during ASI windows.
• Provides leadership in on-call troubleshooting and issue resolution as required.
• Develops and maintains installation and configuration procedures.
• Collaborate with the Security team to identify and remediate application and operating system vulnerabilities.
• Acts as a liaison with other groups to provide information sharing pertaining to the needs of the diverse set of computer users supported by the client as a whole.
• Develop scripts and other automation solutions to aid in the completion of migration and integration tasks.
• Review problems to understand the root causes of issues and ensure proper fixes are implemented.
• Provide high level expertise to multiple projects and tasks.
• Maintain current knowledge of relevant technology as assigned.
• Participate in special projects as required.

Minimum Qualifications and Experience:

• Active DoD TS/SCI Clearance
• DoD 8570 IAT II Certification or higher
• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or a related technical discipline, or equivalent work experience in lieu of degree.
• 10+ or more years of related information technology experience
• 3+ years experience supporting DoD, DISA, or JSP Network environments.
• Must have one of the following active network certifications:
  
  • Cisco Certified Network Administrator (CCNA)
  • Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
  • Aruba Certified Switching Associate (ACSA)

GCyber is an Equal Opportunity Employer. This means you don't have to worry about whether your application process will be fair. We consider all applicants without regard to race, color, religion, age, ancestry, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, veteran status, or disability.
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