Here at Encode we strive to ensure that both professional AND personal satisfaction go hand in hand. We enhance professional satisfaction by constantly improving team member skills with ongoing education, conferences, and early adoption of automation tools. We want everyone to be the best they can be. We build personal satisfaction by embracing remote work days, casual attire, bagel Tuesdays, team building events at local establishments and in-office cornhole competitions.
Job DescriptionThe Sr. Network Administrator/ Engineer will implement and sustain both NIPR and SIPR switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and network management tools. The focus is a Cisco ACI datacenter environment.
To be considered, you must have the following:
- CompTIA Security+
- Computing Environment Certification
- Active Secret clearance
- Perform network management/analysis/troubleshooting
- Developing and maintaining local operating procedures and policies
- Monitoring the ongoing operation of the network.
- A minimum of 5 years of experience performing the specified functions
- 5+ years of Network Administration
- Documented experience with Cisco ACI and the Nexus 9k line
- 5+ years of configuring and maintaining switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and network management tools
- Experience with network management, analysis and troubleshooting tools
- Experience with network automation and scripting
- Experience with Data Center Management, including automation
- Ability to train junior team members
- Excellent interpersonal and teamwork skills, analytical and problem-solving skills, written and verbal communication abilities
- Experience in patch management
- Experience in implementing and maintaining DISA STIGs or equivalent security management Strategies
- Experience in the deployment of firmware and security configurations using automation
- Experience with development of project documentation to include standard operating procedures, project plans, and network diagrams
- Strong networking background
- Strong troubleshooting skills
- Strong documentation skills
- Active secret Clearance
- CompTIA Security+
- Computing Environment (CE) Certification Professional Level or higher (i.e., Cisco CCNP, Cisco CCNP Datacenter, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5 etc.)
- Bachelor's degree at a minimum
Preferred:
- 5+ years of Cisco switch management experience
- Experience with the Cisco Nexus (7K, 5K, and 2K) line and Cisco Catalyst line
- Experience with the Cisco MDS 9k line.
- Experience with Cisco ASA/Firepower firewalls and Palo Alto firewalls
- Experience with F5 load balancers
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Additional InformationAll your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Skills Required
- CompTIA Security+
- Computing Environment (CE) Certification Professional Level or higher (e.g., CCNP, CCNP Datacenter, Juniper, Palo Alto, F5)
- Active Secret clearance
- Minimum of 5 years experience performing the specified functions
- 5+ years of Network Administration
- Documented experience with Cisco ACI and the Nexus 9k line
- 5+ years configuring and maintaining switches, routers, firewalls, load balancers and network management tools
- Experience with network management, analysis and troubleshooting tools
- Experience with network automation and scripting
- Experience with Data Center Management, including automation
- Developing and maintaining local operating procedures and policies; creating SOPs, project plans, and network diagrams
- Experience in patch management
- Experience implementing and maintaining DISA STIGs or equivalent security management strategies
- Experience deploying firmware and security configurations using automation
- Ability to train junior team members
- Strong troubleshooting, documentation, analytical, written and verbal communication, interpersonal and teamwork skills
- Bachelor's degree minimum
- 5+ years of Cisco switch management experience
- Experience with Cisco Nexus (7K, 5K, 2K) and Cisco Catalyst line
- Experience with Cisco MDS 9k
- Experience with Cisco ASA/Firepower and Palo Alto firewalls
- Experience with F5 load balancers
What We Do
Encode Inc. is a New Jersey-based information technology company associated with cloud and enterprise infrastructure work. Its available hiring materials include cloud-engineering and virtualization-administration positions, suggesting capabilities in cloud infrastructure, systems administration, and enterprise technology operations. The company’s public profile reports approximately $12.2 million in revenue and 77 employees, while its workplace materials emphasize remote work, casual attire, and team-building activities. Founded in 1997.
