Senior Network Infrastructure Engineer Hybrid role

This is a hybrid role

No agency or C2C will NOT be considered and Visa sponsorship is not available nor provided.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Recommending, designing, and implementing new technologies to support VRS business initiatives
• Partnering with Security organization to remediate any vulnerabilities and ensure all assets are secure
• Monitoring and maintaining virtual environments to contain 400+ Windows and Red Hat virtual machines across Nutanix Acropolis
• Mentoring junior engineers
• Provide day to day operational support for VRS Arista LAN and Wi-Fi infrastructure
• Continuously improving processes and documentation for Infrastructure assets
• Expert level experience in routing & switching, Wi-Fi and network packet brokers to design, implement, and support our datacenter and campus networks.
• Supporting VRS business services by completing requests and resolving incidents in documented SLA timings; as well as following all change management processes
• Tranlsate complex business requirements and objectives into leaf-spine network solutions
• Ensuring security solutions, policies, and procedures are sufficient to meet and respond to threats to our data and endpoint infrastructure
• Assisting in streamlining project requirements, create test and implementation plans, as well as identifying potential gaps to ensure successful project delivery
• Develop and maintain a network infrastructure monitoring and alerting strategy
• Identifying automation opportunities within daily tasks and leveraging PowerShell or other scripting languages to automate repeatable tasks
• Balancing operational and project related activities, ensuring both are delivered correctly and timely
• Providing delivery of service requests through a ITIL based Service Management process
• Recommending and providing technical support processes, metrics, and SLAs
• After hours and weekend work may be required as situations arise.
• Other duties as assigned

Required Skills and Experience:

• Knowledge of system administration processes and best practices
• Ability to learn new technologies and assist others in learning new technologies
• Strong experience with network technologies such as Ethernet, VLANs, VxLAN, VPN, IP Routing, TCP/IP, OSPF, BGP, IPsec, MACsec, Multicast, QoS, Wi-Fi, VoIP, and 802.1X
• Expert knowledge within Active Directory and Group Policy
• Strong experience with Microsoft DNS, DHCP and DFS
• Experience with Arista (preferably) or other commercial Wi-Fi platform
• Extensive experience with data-center management, system security, and Nutanix hyper-converged infrastructure
• Excellent customer service and verbal communication skills
• Excellent written skills and desire to document network infrastructures
• Experience with working in an ITIL or similar service operational environment

Desired Skills:

• Working knowledge of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Rubrik or similar backup architecture
• Palo Alto firewall experience
• Working knowledge of Public Key Infrastructure
• Citrix NetScaler or load balancing experience
• Experience working with a Network Access Control solution

Education and/or Experience
Bachelor s degree in business information systems or closely related field from a four-year college or university preferred and 8+ years experience in infrastructure operations and project delivery. Strong working knowledge of Commonwealth of VA Information Security Standard (SEC530) preferred.

This will be a contract position starting with a period of at least 6 months. To be effective, this resource would need to be available within the next 6 weeks. VRS desires to interview proposed individuals before final approval. The individual will follow VRS Hybrid work schedule including 2 days onsite per week. The individual may also be called to be onsite for critical meetings and engineering discussions.

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